Training - Planning for Persons with Disabilities in Emergencies and Disasters
Planning for Persons with Disabilities in Emergencies and Disasters
September 26, 2018, 8:30 to 16:30
Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine Boardroom
TRAINING AGENDA
This full-day training workshop is for emergency managers, ESS directors and ESS volunteers, disaster NGO representatives, protective services, and anyone in positions of responsibility during emergencies and disasters. Participants will learn about:
- The social and environmental context that creates barriers to access
- Disaster vulnerability of high-risk groups
- Experiences of people with disabilities in disasters
The Functional Needs Framework and CMIST - Making sure people with communication disabilities get the message: communication plan
- Getting everybody out: evacuation considerations exercise
- Meet & Greet and Registration: access and inclusion Issues
- Using CMIST in Response: small groups exercise
- Engaging Community Stakeholders
- Mapping community services and resources
- Recovery considerations: beyond 72-hours
- Including People with Disabilities in your mock exercises
- Planning with CMIST: Setting priorities for your emergency program
- Resources
- Workshop review and closing
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Karen Martin has been the Emergency Preparedness Project Coordinator for Disability Alliance BC (DABC) since 2006. Karen has presented on emergency preparedness and people with disabilities at provincial and national conferences. Since 2007, she has developed and delivered workshops to a diversity of organizations throughout BC and Canada, including: Emergency Social Services teams in BC, the health sector, community organizations, and post-secondary institutions. Karen is an associate member of the South West Region ESS Directors. She has collaborated with the Health Emergency Management BC Working Group focusing on the Duty to Accommodate and emergency planning. DABC received the 2012 Award of Excellence at the BC Annual Emergency Preparedness Conference in Vancouver for its work in the field of emergency planning and people with disabilities. Currently, DABC is funded by Emergency Management BC to work with Emergency Programs throughout BC to integrate the Functional Needs Framework into their emergency planning and response.
