2018
November 2018 Workgroup Meeting
Meeting Outcomes:
- Share resources and collaboration opportunities among new and standing workgroup members, as well as other Access & Functional Needs efforts across Colorado.
- Learn more about emBOLDen Alliances, and their work with inclusion in international humanitarian disaster settings.
- Brainstorm community and responder training content about Access & Functional Needs and opportunities to use existing training resources.
- Consider name and symbols for the future of the Colorado Community Inclusion Workgroup.
Meeting Resources:
- November community inclusion meeting minutes.
- November community inclusion meeting PowerPoint
- DHSEM and HSAC access & functional needs subcommittee report to joint budget committee for state AFN capacity building.
- PowerPoint from partner feature: emBolden Alliances.
- Colorado Commission for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf Blind: Rural Interpreting Services Project.
- 2018 NADRC: Disaster planning toolkit for people living with dementia.
- Domestic reparedness article: “Helping the chronically ill during natural disasters.”
- ASPR: “Coping & helping others cope” and “Safe use of medications.”
- PrepTalks:
- Drexel University: www.diversitypreparedness.org.
- ADA National Network: Emergency management and preparedness – Inclusion of persons with disabilities – Webinar series.
August 2018 Workgroup Meeting
Meeting outcomes
- Share resources and collaboration opportunities among new and standing workgroup members, as well as other Access & Functional Needs efforts across Colorado.
- Discuss the Equity Action Guide from CDPHE’s Office of Health Equity and how it may contribute to inclusive planning or training for disasters.
- Begin community and responder training workgroup organizing and review of existing inclusive training materials.
- Celebrate 3 years and consider name and symbols for the future of the Colorado Community Inclusion Workgroup.
Meeting documents
- August Meeting Minutes.
- August Meeting Powerpoint.
- Emergency Preparedness Resources for Health Facilities.
- Flyer for "Emergency Preparedness 101 for people with disabilities, their families, friends and caregivers."
- Flyer for "Health Equity and Climate Summit."
- "Getting it Right" After Action Report.
- ACL's Emergency Preparedness Resources.
- Breastfeeding and Emergency Preparedness Resources.
- OHE's Equity Action Guide webpage - includes desktop, PDF, accessible and Spanish versions of the Equity Action Guide.
- Daniel Aldrich's PREPtalk about "Social Capital in Disaster Mitigation and Recovery."
May 2018 Workgroup Meeting
Meeting outcomes
- Share resources and collaboration opportunities among new and standing workgroup members.
- Learn from CDPHE’s Office of Health Equity about projects and resources that support community understanding during disasters.
- Equip workgroup members as “How to Prepare” Workshop trainers.
Meeting documents
- May Meeting Minutes.
- CDPHE Office of Health Equity.
- Community Language Co-op.
- Health Facilities Emergency Preparedness.
- Getting It Wrong: An Indictment with a Blueprint for Getting It Right - Disability Rights, Obligations and Responsibilities Before, During and After Disasters.
- Enhancing individual and community disaster preparedness: Individuals with disabilities and others with access and functional needs.
- The Disaster Information Needs of Families of Children with Special Healthcare Needs: A Scoping Review.
- "Checking Assumptions to Advance Equity".
- ADA National Network Webinars:
- Register for next webinar "Getting It Right - An After Action Report on major disasters of 2017-18" on August 9th, 2018, 12.30pm MDT
- View archived webinars.
- Wireless RERC Survey of User Needs (SUN) - Data from the SUN provides important information to the wireless industry, government regulators, and other researchers to help them make wireless technology more accessible and responsive to people with disabilities’ needs *and* wants. Visit http://bit.ly/
2018UserNeedsSurvey or complete the survey by phone by calling Kenneth Goughnor (404-385-4611) Salimah LaForce (404-894-8297) or Nathan W. Moon (404-894-8845) - Promising Practices Webinar: Public Libraries Lending Social Work Resources to Vulnerable People on August 7 10:30 – 11:30am MDT. Features a Community Resource Program through Denver Public Library – happening in our own backyard!
- Whole Community Disaster Planning: Inclusive Approaches to Recovery and Preparedness.
- Promising Practices under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Federally Assisted Emergency Management.
- Diversity, Inclusion, and Racial Equity Efforts in Local Government.
March 2018 Workgroup Meeting
Meeting outcomes
- Share resources and collaboration opportunities among new and standing workgroup members.
- Identify fundable projects before the end of FY 2017-2018.
- Gather feedback concerning C-MIST plan review criteria.
- Identify first-year milestones for training and conference project.
Meeting documents
- March Meeting Minutes.
- Regional HCC Access & Functional Needs Plan Criteria.
- Link to Planning Guidance Google Survey Form.
- Sources for Accessible Alerts.
- Contents Guide for Independence Center's Emergency Preparedness Kits.
- Letter and offer for free services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing while using Independence Center's Emergency Preparedness Kits.
- Resources for communication with people who are Deaf.
- Independence Center's Position statement on accessible emergency management for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people.
- Communication Boards for people who are nonverbal: English | Spanish
- Community Inclusion Exercise Resources Webpage.
- Colorado Community Inclusion Maps.
- Inclusive Emergency Resources from ACL during Hurricane Harvey.
- Cultural and Linguistic Competency in Disaster Preparedness and Response webpage.
- Colorado's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data.
- Colorado Demographer's Office.
- SF72 model.
- Alphabet Boards.
- Pain Scales.