Emergency Preparedness and Response

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• News
• Proposal and Manuscript Development
• AUCD Resources
• AUCD Network and List Member Activities, Projects, and Products
• Other Resources
• NewsTrainings and Conferences

Looking for collaborators? Email the list! [link to email list goes here]

Looking for an AUCD letter of support for your grant proposal? Email the AUCD SIG liaison [email protected] at least 2 weeks before your deadline.

Grant Funding Opportunities

• FEMA Homeland  Security Grant Program https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/homeland-security
  
• To apply for this kind of FEMA grant you will need to connect with your State Administrative Agency https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/about/state-administrative-agency-contacts
  
• Instrumental disaster preparedness and relief grants list https://www.instrumentl.com/browse-grants/disaster-preparedness-and-relief-grants (Note: This is a commercial website with some free content. AUCD does not endorse the business of Instrumentl.)
  
  
• National Science Foundation https://beta.nsf.gov/
  
• NIH Disaster Research Response (DR2) Program https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/disaster/index.cfm
  
• Rural Health Information Hub emergency preparedness grant list https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/about/state-administrative-agency-contacts
  
• US Climate Resilience Toolkit funding opportunities list  https://toolkit.climate.gov/content/funding-opportunities

Proposal Research Quick Links

• American Community Survey, census data https://data.census.gov/
  
• ASPR

• emPOWER Program https://empowerprogram.hhs.gov/
• TRACIE (database for healthcare emergency preparedness resources, including disabilities and access and functional needs)   https://asprtracie.hhs.gov/

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Disability impacts all of us infographic  https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/infographic-disability-impacts-all.html
  
• Data and statistics on disability and health (includes state profiles) https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/data.html
  
• Google Scholar searches

• Google Scholar search using terms “disability and disaster” https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=disabillity+and+disaster&btnG=
• Google Scholar search using terms  “disability and climate change” https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=disabillity+and+climate+change&btnG=
• Google Scholar search using terms “disability and emergency preparedness” https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,22&q=disability+and+%22emergency+preparedness%22
• Google Scholar search using terms “disability and ‘access and functional needs’” https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=disability+and+%22access+and+functional+needs%22&btnG=

• United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs Disability  https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/
  
• Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Situations  https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/issues/disability-inclusive-disaster-risk-reduction-and-emergency-situations.html
  
• University of New Hampshire Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics (StatsRRTC), Annual disability statistics compendium  https://disabilitycompendium.org/
  
  
• US Department of Justice ADA.gov

• ADA best practices toolkit for state and local governments (Chapter 7 is about state and local emergency management) https://archive.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/toolkitmain.htm
• Emergency preparedness  https://archive.ada.gov/emerg_prep.html
• Project Civic Access (Department of Justice ADA-related settlement agreements. Most agreements have sections related to ADA compliance in emergencies/disasters)  https://archive.ada.gov/civicac.htm

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Climate adaptation

• Adrianne Griffen video  https://www.aucd.org/docs/Finding-Disability-County-Data.pdf
  
• Plain language resources https://www.aucd.org/template/page.cfm?id=1207
  
• ecoAmerica collaboration   https://www.aucd.org/template/news.cfm?news_id=15680&parent=16

• ecoAmerica  https://ecoamerica.org/
• Tuesdays with Liz video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHhkPGtE2T0
  

Links to NIRS Database Searches—2018 to present

• Search terms “emergency preparedness” [https://www.aucd.org/nirs/search/search.cfm]
  
  
• Search term “disaster” [https://www.aucd.org/nirs/search/search.cfm]
  
  
• Search terms “climate change or climate” [https://www.aucd.org/nirs/search/search.cfm]
  
  

Prepared4ALL: Inclusive whole community planning for people with disabilities, disability organizations, emergency management and public health professionals

• Prepared4ALL online course registration  https://www.hdilearning.org/course-catalog/?woo_category=980
  
  
• Prepared4All online course video summaries, learning agendas, module resources https://nationalcenterdph.org/our-focus-areas/emergency-preparedness/prepared4all/online-training/
  
  
• Prepared4ALL organizational strengths tool  https://nationalcenterdph.org/our-focus-areas/emergency-preparedness/prepared4all/
  
  
• Prepared4ALL communication materials  https://nationalcenterdph.org/our-focus-areas/emergency-preparedness/prepared4all/
  
  
• Prepared4ALL Active Planning workbook guide  https://nationalcenterdph.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Emergency-Planning.pdf
  
  
• Prepared4ALL outreach, engagement, collaboration strategies playbook  https://nationalcenterdph.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Prepared4ALL-Playbook.pdf
  
  
• Prepared4ALL Kickstart Directory https://nationalcenterdph.org/our-focus-areas/emergency-preparedness/prepared4all/
  
  
• Prepared4ALL finding disability data resource  https://www.aucd.org/docs/Finding-Disability-County-Data.pdf

• Public Health is for Everyone Toolkit https://www.phetoolkit.org/about.cfm/ (“emergency preparedness” and “COVID-19” are searchable under Issues)
  
  

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ASPR

• At-Risk Individuals, Behavioral Health & Community Resilience (ABC)  resources https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/abc/Pages/default.aspx
  
• CMIST access and functional needs framework https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/atrisk/discharge-planning/Pages/CMIST-framework.aspx
  
• CMIST fact sheet  https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/abc/Pages/AFN-FactSheet.aspx
  

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)

• Emergency Preparedness Rule  https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertEmergPrep/Emergency-Prep-Rule
  

Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Access and Functional Needs  https://dhsem.colorado.gov/emergency-management/plans/access-and-functional-needs

FEMA Regional Disability Integration Specialists  https://disasterstrategies.org/fema-regional-disability-integration-specialists/

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Trainings, Meetings, and Webinar Series

• ASPR, Access and functional needs https://www.train.org/main/course/1083869/
  
• Colorado Access and Functional Needs meetings and resources  https://dhsem.colorado.gov/emergency-management/plans/access-and-functional-needs/monthly-afn-meetings
  
• FEMA Emergency Management Institute  https://training.fema.gov/emi.aspx
  
• FEMA Organizations Preparing for Emergency Needs  https://community.fema.gov/PreparednessCommunity/s/open-training?language=en_US&tabset-bc2e8=1
  
• Pacific ADA Center,  ADA National Network Webinar Series: Emergency Management and Preparedness-Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities https://www.adapacific.org/emergency-preparedness-webinars
  
• Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies https://disasterstrategies.org/
  
  
• TRAIN Learning Network  (extensive public health training database) https://www.train.org/main/welc

Conferences

• American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting  https://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
  
• AUCD annual conference  https://www.aucd.org/conference/
  
• NACCHO Preparedness Summit https://www.preparednesssummit.org/home
  

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