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Disaster Resilience Trainings for DSIL

Thank you for attending The Partnership's
Disaster Resilience Trainings!

This page is meant to serve as a continuing resource. Below is the training recording and materials provided to Disability Solutions for Independent Living (DSIL).

If you have any accessibility questions or concerns, please reach out to Priya Penner at priya@disasterstrategies.org.

Below you will find the following Training Modules:

Disability Rights in Disasters Training Module

The Disability Rights in Disasters training objectives are to build confidence in understanding:

  • People with disabilities have rights in disasters
  • What some of those rights are
  • How to advocate for your rights

Materials:

Personal Disaster Preparedness Training Module

The Personal Disaster Preparedness training objectives are to give an overview of: 

  • What are disasters
  • When to shelter-in-place vs evacuate
  • What to include in your shelter-in-place emergency kit
  • What to include in your evacuation emergency kit
  • How you can start to prepare

Materials:

Dangers of False Expectations in Emergency Management Training Module

The Dangers of False Expectations training objectives are to give an overview of: 

  • What you can and cannot expect from a registry
  • What are some false expectations disabled people have in disasters
  • How to stay safest in disasters and emergencies given the realities

Materials:

Addressing Institutionalized Racism During Disasters Training Module

The Addressing Institutionalized Racism training objectives are to give an overview of: 

  • Key terms related to racism
  • The impacts of racism during disasters
  • How to recognize and interrupt internalized racism
  • How to recognize and interrupt racism in your CIL and community

Materials:

Recognizing, Interrupting, and Deconstructing Disability Bias in Emergency Management Training Module

The Deconstructing Disability Bias training objectives are to give an overview of: 

  • Key terms related to racism
  • The impacts of racism during disasters
  • How to recognize and interrupt internalized racism
  • How to recognize and interrupt racism in your CIL and community

Materials:

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