These publications and sites are provided for your assistance but may not include publications and sites that are worthy.   We regret any omissions.

Training

• Independent Study Courses from FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute. At this site find courses (in PDF files) for a number of emergency management topics. You may enroll in courses, take final exams or do independent study.
  
  Programs for Reaching Hearing Impaired. The Tennessee Fire Marshal’s office offers a course for safety educators in reaching people with hearing disabilities in the event of fire.
  http://www.state.tn.us/commerce/sfm/fireSafetyEducationResources.html
   

Products

• Emergency Preparedness on the Job and Emergency Preparedness at Home for People with Disabilities. This two page sheet will provide guidelines for protecting yourself in your workplace or at home when disaster strikes.
  

• Earthquake Preparedness Video.  This is a 27-minute video on earthquake preparedness focusing on individual preparedness, neighborhood planning and vulnerable populations. Accompanied by a Program Guide for public presentation, including checklist and discussion guide.   Available in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Tagalog and English open-captioned. For information, contact TODCO 230 4th St., San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 896-1981

• The American Red Cross offers an on-line kit for Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities to help persons with disabilities and their family members plan in the event of an emergency. 
  
  This is an excellent video to address the issues of older adults and caregivers during an emergency. mms://caresource.com/JustInCase/jic_videoBB.wmv
  
  You can also contact your Local Red Cross chapters for more information on chemical emergencies, earthquakes, hurricanes, winter storms and general preparedness.

Articles

• Emergency Preparedness For People with Disabilities and other Special Needs: Another Look After Katrina Carl T. Cameron, Ph.D.,
  
  Disaster! This article in the November, 1994 issue of Mainstream Magazine deals with the gaps in emergency management related to people with disabilities.
  
  Coping With the Aftermath: How Does Someone With An Anxiety Disorder Cope In a Changed World?  Kathleen Henning, 9/19/01.
  

• Disaster Mitigation for Persons with Disabilities: Fostering a New Dialogue. A report by The Annenberg Washington Program in collaboration with The President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities by Annenberg Senior Fellow Peter David Blanck.

Websites

• The Community Preparedness Website Project -- www.preparenow.org.  This Website focuses on supporting the special needs of vulnerable populations in disasters. It includes a checklist for facility preparation & inventory of neighborhood resources and information on how to prepare for disaster for people with special medical needs.

• Disaster Preparedness for Persons with Mobility Impairments-  www.nobodyleftbehind2.org/
   

• American Red Cross.--  www.redcross.org/ -- Disaster Preparedness for People With Disabilities Audio tapes.  Educator’s information, Disaster Preparedness for people with disabilities, Curricula for schools, videos and more.

• The Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association, International (DERA). -- www.disasters.org/dera/dera.htm    “DERA was founded in 1962 to assist communities worldwide in disaster preparedness, response and recovery, and to serve as a professional association linking professionals, volunteers and organizations in all phases of emergency preparedness and management”.  This site also contains a calendar of conferences
  
  Federal Emergency Planning Agency (FEMA). www.fema.gov
  

• Documents titled: Access to Agency Programs for People With Disabilities, Fire Safety and the Disabled Program, Fire and the Elderly, and a Document titled Emergency Procedures for Employees with Disabilities in Office Occupancies at http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu
  

• Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange (EPIX) http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/epix/topics/training.html . Education, training, exercises and simulations.
  
  United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). www.epa.gov/ceppo . Preparedness - Emergency Planning, Communities Right to Know.
  
  Occupational and Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). www.osha.gov  
  
  National Organization for the Disabled. www.nod.org.   This website contains list of websites addressing disabled and emergency planning and other useful information for planning.
  
  Disabled People and DP2 Disaster Planning.  www.citycent.com/dp2/ This is a California website that deals with disabled and access in earthquakes; however it is useful information for other situations.
  
  eSight. Emergency Plans That Include Workers With Disabilities www.esight.org.
   

• Emergency Power Planning for People Who Use Electricity and Battery Dependent Assistive Technology and Medical Devices, June Kailes, 2006

  GetReadyGear - Provider of emergency preparedness supplies and survival kits www.getreadygear.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=4

  Emergency Preparedness: Taking Responsibility For Your Safety - Tips for People with Activity Limitations and Disabilities. (2006) Los Angeles County Emergency Survival Program, posted 05/2/06  

  Making Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Programs Accessible to People with Disabilities (last accessed 08/12/06)

  Serving and Protecting All by Applying Lessons Learned Including People with Disabilities and Seniors in Disaster Services, (March 2006), June Kailes and California Foundation for Independent Living, posted 05/2/06
  
  Report on Special Needs Assessment for Katrina Evacuees (SNAKE) Project, National Organization on Disability, 2005
  
  Saving Lives: Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning, National Council on Disability, 2005
  
  Disaster Services and “Special Needs:” Term of Art or Meaningless Term? June Kailes, 2005
  
  Survey of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees, September 2005, The Washington Post, Kaiser Family, Foundation, and Harvard University. Accessed 11/19/05