LEND Community Health Project: Emergency Management Planning for People with Disabilities
Project Description:
The 2024-25 UR LEND Community Health Project is the third phase of a multi-phase/multi-year (multi-LEND trainee cohort) project stemming from the CGH My Health Story 2022 Survey, launched in summer 2022 to better understand factors impacting health equity in the Finger Lakes Region. The UR LEND Program uses a disability-centered framework to review community data and share findings with CGH and other key community stakeholders. This year's UR LEND Community Health Project will explore Emergency Management Planning for People with Disabilities in City of Rochester and greater Monroe County. Focus Areas will include preparedness and response across three major emergency themes: fire, flooding, and power outages. LEND trainees will learn about basic principles of emergency management and existing inequities in emergency management for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. By the end of this project, each focus area team will have reviewed data, including lived expertise, to develop emergency theme-specific informational products for community members with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), and the people that support them, and for first responders and emergency management teams in the City of Rochester/Monroe County. These informational products will be shared with community and national partners, including Common Ground Health, the City of Rochester's Office of Emergency Management, Monroe County Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, and the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) Disasters, Climate Adaptation, and Disability Inclusion Special Interest Group.
Keyword(s):
Developmental Disabilities, Emergency Services for Children – Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Services for Children – General, Health Equity, Life Course Approach, Preventive Services, Social Determinants of Health, Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Special Health Care Needs
Core Function(s):
Training Trainees
Area of Emphasis
Quality Assurance, Housing-Related Activities, Quality of Life
Target Audience:
Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Professionals and Para-Professionals
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Limited English, Geographic Areas
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Single-County, Mulit-County
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
