Are you ready in
case of an emergency?
Is your community equipped to work with people with disAbilities?

Learn things you can do to prepare for a disaster as a person with a disability or to ensure your organization/business will be able to meet the needs of people with disabilities. If you need further assistance, contact us!

The Alliance has put together a series of 5 planning worksheets to help you prepare for a disaster:

Section 1: Create a local network and communications plan to be used in an emergency or disaster.

Section 2: Compile important information and complete a disaster and emergency preparedness self assessment.

Section 3: Meet with your network, plan to complete preparedness tasks, and further asses you emergency preparedness.

Section 4: Get informed about community plans in place for emergency and disaster preparedness

Section 5: Create an emergency preparedness kit that would sustain you and your household for one week in case of an emergency or disaster. Here is a sample kit building calendar to help you put together a kit in small steps over a five month period. Additional information on building a kit may be found at www.3days3ways.org

• Build your personal emergency kit: everyone should have 72 hours worth of supplies ready in case of an emergency.
• Have an emergency plan for your family or business.

For more information on emergency preparedness for people with disabilities:

• Read the Alliance's Position Paper on Emergency Preparedness for People with disAbilities and ways we could improve and enhance response systems. (coming soon!)
• More tips are available here for disaster preparedness for people with disabilities.
• Become a member of a Citizen Emergency Response Team to learn how you can help prepare your community for working with disabilities. You will be trained in assisting within your neighborhood, should an emergency arise.
• Read one woman's account of surviving through the winter storms, as a person with a disability.

Community Resources:

• National Organization on Disability
• Seattle/King County American Red Cross
• King County Emergency Management
• 3 days, 3 ways: learn three ways you can prepare to survive the first three days after a disaster.

Would you like to help the Alliance to provide emergency preparedness kits to people with disabilities?

Join with other businesses and individuals to assist us in making emergency kits available to people with disabilities. See the Alliance's wish list for in-kind donations that would help us with that goal. Or, you can make a monetary donation to the Alliance and specify that your would like your funds to go towards helping people with disabilities to be prepared for a disaster.