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Product

Emergency Planning for People with Disabilities, their Direct Care Workers, and Family Members

Center:

MI-Developmental Disabilities Institute, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2014

Contact Information:

Elizabeth Janks
[email protected]
313-577-6368

Product Description:

This free two hour training provides learner objectives that include: defining a disaster, preparing a plan, and understanding evacuation procedures. Special considerations are included in this emergency plan to provide for medical equipment, assistive technology, medications, helping animals, and direct care staff. All participants leave with a completed Safe Place emergency tool kit. The product includes a protected cover to store the plan in a safe place in the persons home as well as a mini version to be carried in the purse or wallet. An example of some of the information in the emergency plan include contact information of relatives, friends and direct care staff, care of helping animals, medical equipment, medication list, and other information pertinent to emergency/disaster planning for people with disabilities.

Keyword(s):

emergency preparedness, planning

Product/Publication Type(s):

Academic Course Development

Target Audience:

Consumers/Families, Professionals

Alternative Format:

Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

To Obtain Copies (URL or Email):

http://ddi.wayne.edu/emergencyprep.php

COVID-19 Related Data:

N/A