Emergency Preparedness

News

3/26/2013

AUCD 2013: Calling All Proposals

Deadline: May 31, 2013

The AUCD Conference provides a special opportunity to share your interests, talents, and perspectives in a range of disability related topics with others in the network and our partners.

3/26/2013

AUCD 2013: You're Invited

Promoting Inclusion in an Increasingly Diverse World

This Conference theme promotes our network values of inclusion of all persons with developmental and other disabilities in community life and engages the network in conversation and practices to ensure our work reflects the changing cultural and linguistic landscape in our Centers and States.

3/4/2013

AUCD Celebrates March as Developmental Disabilities Month

On February 26, 1987, President Ronald Reagan designated March as the National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. Read about a few of the current AUCD and Network activities underway this month.

Resources

• Emergency Preparedness for Persons with Disabilities and Special Needs
    from http://publicaa.ansi.org
• Evacuating Populations with Special Needs - Routes to Effective Evacuation Planning Primer Series
    from http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov
• Nobody Left Behind: Disaster Preparedness for Persons with Mobility Impairments
    from http://www2.ku.edu
• Preparing for Disaster for People with Disabilities and other Special Needs
    from http://www.redcross.org
• Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act: Questions and Answers
    from http://www.hhs.gov
• Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 301 for Special Needs Populations
    from http://www.fema.gov
• Disaster Preparedness and People with Complex Communication Needs (CCN) Website
    from http://www.aac-rerc.com
• ADA Guidelines from the U.S. Department of Justice on Sheltering for Mass Care
• Working with People with Disabilities- A Guide for Responders
• "Ready" Instructional Videos from the US Department of Homeland Security
    from http://www.ready.gov
• Accommodating People with Disabilities in Disasters: A Reference Guide to Federal Law
• Amendments to the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act

  Text of the amendments to the Stafford Act of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill for FY 2007 (HR 5441).

• Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Bill Talking Points

  CCD Emergency Management Task Force talking points on the disability-specific provisions of the Pos- Katrina Emergency Management Reform Bill.

  ccd emergency mgmt reform act talking points 092106.doc [download]