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Emergency Management and Evacuation Preparedness

• Emergency Evacuation Preparedness (Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions)
  A guide for people with disabilities and other activity limitations.
• Evacuee Support Planning Guide (FEMA – July 2009)
  This guide (108 page PDF document) from the Federal Emergency Management Agency  is a resource for states that may receive a substantial number of evacuees from another state and for states that may experience a large evacuation from one area of the state to another. It is also a resource for most mass care planning, and addresses subjects including preparing for special needs within the evacuee population and the importance of making accessible housing, transportation, medical care and communications available. 
• Ingeragency Coordinating Council on Emergency Preparedness and Individuals with Disabilities (Disability Preparedness Resource Center) – 2009 Annual Report to the President
  The Report describes the work of the ICC including response to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and the H1N1 Pandemic; ICC members’ significant role in the 2009 National Conference on Community Preparedness; and the vital contributions of the ICC member agencies toward the development of an inclusive National Disaster Recovery Framework.
• Preparing for & Responding to Emergencies and Disasters (Disability.gov)
  This section of Disability.gov includes information that people with disabilities, their families, employers, and first-responders need to know about actions that should be taken before, during, and after emergencies.
• Victims with Disabilities: Collaborative, Multidisciplinary First Response (U.S. Dept. of Justice)
  Techniques for first responders called to help crime victims who have disabilities.