Objectives:

Strengthen community resilience and share disaster planning best practices.
Provide a discussion based forum to bring together communities, individuals, and organizations working on disaster readiness for persons with disabilities and individuals with access and functional needs.
Ensure shared knowledge and understanding of current preparedness issues, plans, processes, and procedures.

Arizona Focus on Whole Community Preparedness

The goal of this task force is to ensure all emergency sheltering plans seamlessly address access and functional needs requirements as a result of whole community planning. Together with outreach to personal care attendants, emergency planners, the public, organizations, and communities working on disaster readiness for persons with disabilities Arizona can build community preparedness capabilities. This event seeks to educate and inspire community resiliency. The summit seeks to focus on emergency planning for children, families, seniors, and persons with disabilities to promote personal preparedness, enhance emergency plans, and gather feedback from the public to enhance and strengthen emergency plans.

Topics include: Mass Care Shelter Planning, Issues with Emergency Displacement and Coordinating Medical Insurance, Disaster Impacts for Families & Children, Emergency Reunification, and Disaster Response Best Practice.

Presenters:

Brett Heising CEO/Founder of brettapproved Inc – Inspiring people to travel confidently identifying accessible hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues worldwide. Brett works with community partners to share accessible information and tips to better serve people with disabilities.

Gil Damiani – Retired Emergency Manager from the City of Mesa with over 30 year of service, he is currently a consultant with Coyote Crisis Collaborative working with Day Treatment Agencies and with the Arizona Healthcare Association to strengthen emergency plans, processes, and procedures for long term care facilities.

ARIZONA PARTNERS IN PREPAREDNESS SUMMIT:

PLANNING AND PREPARING TO MEET NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN A DISASTER

PHOENIX, Ariz. (May 5, 2017):

A free statewide conference focused on planning and preparing to address the needs of people with disabilities during a disaster will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 8 at the Desert Willow Conference Center, 4340 E. Cotton Center Blvd. in Phoenix.

The biennial Arizona Partners in Preparedness Conference will include the following topics:

What to expect in a disaster
Emergency evacuation
Issues with displacement, and
Preparedness for resilient communities.
The summit is presented by Ability360 and the Arizona Statewide Independent Living Council in partnership with the Arizona Department of Health Services and Arizona Division of Emergency Management.

“This is an important conference to ensure we are prepared to assist people with disabilities and their families, personal care attendants, organizations providing services to the disability community and emergency planners and first responders,” said Ability360 President and CEO Phil Pangrazio.

Registration is required for the event and lunch will be provided. To register, go to surveymonkey.com/r/2017_Partners_In_Preparedness

For more information, call 602-763-1774

ABOUT ABILITY360: Ability360 continues a 35-year tradition of empowering people with all disabilities. Ability360 offers and promotes programs to empower people with disabilities to take personal responsibility so that they may achieve or continue independent lifestyles within the community. The independent living philosophy states that people with disabilities should have the same civil rights, options, and control over choices in their own lives as do people without disabilities. Ability360 is located at 5025 E. Washington St. Ste. 200, Phoenix, AZ 85034, www.ability360.org, 602-256-2245.

Contacts:

Loren Worthington, Ability360, (602) 386-4278
Steve Carr, The Kur Carr Group, Inc., (602) 317-3040

Cumbre Socios en la Preparación de Arizona:

PLANEANDO Y PREPARANDO PARA CUBRIR LAS NECESIDADES DE LAS PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDAD EN CASO DE DESASTRE

PHOENIX, Ariz. (Mayo 5, 2017):

Una conferencia gratuita enfocada en la planeación y preparación para enfrentar las necesidades de personas con discapacidad durante un desastre, se llevará a cabo a nivel estatal el próximo jueves 8 de junio de 9:30 a.m. a 3:30 p.m. en el Centro de Conferencias Desert Willow, ubicado en el 4340 E. Cotton Center Blvd. en Phoenix.

Éste evento bienal llamado Conferencia de Socios en la Preparación de Arizona incluirá tópicos como:

Que esperar en un Desastre,
Evacuación de Emergencia,
Problemas con Desplazamiento y
Preparación de comunidades resistentes.

La cumbre es presentada por Ability 360, el Consejo Estatal de Vida Independiente de AZ en asociación con el Departmento de Servicios de Salud de AZ y La División de Manejo de Emergencias de AZ

“Éste es un evento importante para asegurar que estamos preparados para asistir a las personas con discapacidad y sus familias, asistentes de cuidado personal, organizaciones que ofrecen servicios a la comunidad discapacitada; planeadores de emergencias y operadores de líneas de emergencia,” dijo el Presidente y Director de Ability360 Phil Pangrazio.

Para asistir es necesario registrarse, en el evento se ofrecerá comida. Para registrarse, vaya a surveymonkey.com/r/2017_Partners_In_Preparedness

Para más información llame al 602-763-1774

SOBRE ABILITY360: Ability360 continúa su tradición de 35 años fortaleciendo a las personas con todo tipo de discapacidad. Ability360 ofrece y promueve programas que fortalecen a las personas con discapacidad a tomar responsabilidad para que logren y continúen con estilos de vida independiente dentro de la comunidad. Su filosofía de vida independiente señala que las personas con discapacidad deben tener los mismos derechos civiles, opciones y control de elección sobre su propia vida al igual que las personas sin discapacidad. Ability360 está localizado en 5025 E. Washington St. Ste. 200, Phoenix, AZ 85034, www.ability360.org, 602-256-2245.

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