2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT, July 09, 2015 | Organized by: ADA National Network/FEMA
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FEMA Promising Practice: Overnight Shelter Experiences
9th July, 2015
There are many reasons to undertake an exercise such as the Overnight Shelter Exercise with the Disability Community, such as, the lack of appropriate and accessible services in shelters is a violation of civil rights law, but more importantly, one in five people encountered during any disaster will have a disability or about 56.7 million people, approximately 19 percent of the population, had a disability in 2010. Many first responders lack familiarity and working knowledge they require to successfully integrate all members of the community in all aspects of the work they do. The shelter exercise was an opportunity to fully exercise all aspects of evacuation in real time with community participants and gain needed capacity and competency while also learning lessons and identifying gaps in the process. Working together and exercising capacity and resources ultimately saves lives.
Learning objectives:
These 90 minute webinars are delivered by the Pacific ADA Center using the Blackboard Collaborate webinar platform. All sessions will be captioned, recorded and archived.
This program is delivered via both webinar platform and via telephone (additional charges may apply). Real-time captioning is available via the webinar platform.
Webinars begin at ET: 2.30pm, CT: 1.30pm, MT:12.30pm, PT:11.30am, Hawaii: 8.30am.
Carole has over 25 years of experience in the disabilities field. The past 8 year she has served as Executive Director at the Alliance Center for Independence. Carole has an adult son who has Autism and understands the challenges faced by people with disabilities during disasters.
Luke has a Master's in Education and over 20 years of experience in the disabilities field. Luke has helped, trained and given presentations to people with disabilities in preparing for disasters. Established in 1986, the Alliance Center for Independence (ACI) has numerous years of experience in disaster preparedness training over 150 individuals and recently secured a grant to provide durable medical equipment and help make homes accessible under the Sandy NJ Relief program.
New Jersey Sandy Recovery has over two decades of experience working with the disability community. Prior to joining FEMA in 2013 Madeleine was the Director of Outreach and Education for The Autism Center of New Jersey Medical School. Madeleine also serves of many distinguished boards of directors for national organizations providing services to the disability community.