On Tuesday, August 17, 2021 The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies hosted a Disability Community Stakeholders virtual meeting with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, who was appointed by President Biden earlier
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Frame 1:
A yellow sun logo with inset icons representing hurricanes, storms, tornados, and earthquakes. Text: The Partnership For inclusive Disaster Strategies
We are the only US-based, national, [red text] Disability-led, [teal text] Disaster Organization. Green checkmark: black text: Disability Rights & Full Inclusion; Green Checkmark: text: Before, During, & After Disasters.
Frame 2: Illustration of a hand holding a cellphone with The Partnership yellow sun logo and a green phone ringing icon. Red Text: 24/7 Disability & Disaster Hotline; black text: January - March 2021; Big font, red text: 400+ calls. Smaller text: Assistance, Referrals, Resources.
Frame 3: 4 navy blue circles with icons representing: food, water, shelter, medication. Text underneath: We help disaster-impacted disabled people access food, water, shelter, medication, durable medical equipment, and more!
Frame 4: Image: A flip calendar with every single day marked off with a green checkmark. Next to the calendar, two green checkmarks. Checkmark 1 text: Weekly National
Stakeholder Calls; Checkmark 2 text: DAILY Disability Rights & COVID-19 Calls. Text: Attendees: Disability rights activists; local, state, and national emergency managers and public health officials.
Frame 5: 2 Images and text. Image 1: Illustration of a woman of color wearing a white mask, with her finger pointed up. Image 2: illustration of a box of vaccines with a syringe lying next to it. Red text: COVID-19 & DISABILITY RIGHTS TRAININGS. Black text: COMMUNITY RESILIENCE INITIATIVE & Accessible Vaccine Sites
Frame 6: Image: illustration of a green plant with long straggly roots; Text: Grassroots; For us, By us
Frame 7: Black text: Support our work; Red Text: Donate Today](https://disasterstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/169071114_4022500967809440_3810075231769760459_n-1.png)
![Life Saving and Life SustainingActions Needed Immediately: Identify COVID-19 infection PREVENTION as a PRIORITY in congregate institutional settings (nursing facilities, long term care facilities, group homes, etc.)
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Governors take the lead and say “we can mitigate the disaster in these institutional settings, where the majority of people are dying from COVID-19, by offering relocation to non-congregate sheltering (like hotels, motels, dorms) for people who want it.”
[Image: blue arrow that points to 2 text blocks. Between text blocks is an arrow with that points in both directions.] Text block 1: Following the FEMA homeless non-congregate sheltering approach
•California’s Approach [Hyperlinked; notation below]
•Connecticut’s Approach [Hyperlinked; notation below]
Text block 2: Utilize FEMA Public Assistance funds to prevent admission, promote & support safe relocation.
• Category B—emergency protective measures [Hyperlinked; notation below]
• In conjunction with new FEMA PAS Guidance [Hyperlinked; notation below].
[Image: Both text blocks share a blue arrow that points to text:] Mitigate COVID Spread & Save Disabled Lives Now.
2 Logos: Logo 1: A yellow sun logo 4 inset icons representing hurricanes, storms, tornadoes, and earthquakes. Text: The Partnership For Inclusive Disaster Strategies; Logo 2: Image a blue globe and text WID](https://disasterstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Life-saving-sustaining-actions-needed.pdf94-1-791x1024.png)
![Infographic image: one frame: Image: Each side of image has two cliffs of land with a large space in between. On the left side, is a table with a group of people in suits standing and sitting around. They represent emergency planners. On the cliff on the right side, a woman uses a motorized wheelchair. Text in the gap between the two cliffs: There is a large gap between Disabled people and emergency planners and responders. This is especially true for people who live in institutional settings, like nursing facilities, group homes, & prisons.
Infographic image: one frame: Text: The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies
is a disability-led organization that builds bridges between emergency planners and people with disabilities. Image: Two cliffs on the right side and left side are now connected by a bridge.
Infographic image: one frame: Text: One way we do this: Daily COVID-19 Disability Rights Calls At 6pm ET, we bring together disability advocates, policymakers, and emergency planners from across the country. Image an Asian woman and Black man in separate bubbles talk with each other.
Infographic with two frames: Frame one Text: Including people with disabilities in disaster planning, response, and recovery is necessary to identify and address gaps in the disaster planning and recovery process. [Image: red arrow leads to Frame 2] Frame 2: Text: We don’t know all that 2021 will bring. But, we do know: The Partnership will keep fighting for the rights of people with disabilities in disasters. Thank you for your support! Image: The Partnership sun logo with inset icons representing hurricanes, storms, earthquakes, and tornadoes and text: The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies](https://disasterstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2-791x1024.png)
![Please join us for the official launch of the Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration
Thursday, July 9, 2020
9 AM Pacific Time/12 PM Eastern Time/4 PM Universal Time
Via Zoom
Captioning in English and International Sign
For additional accessibility needs, please contact kat@wid.org
Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration logo, large. 6 arrows wrapping around an invisible sphere, each arrow a different color - orange, red, purple, blue, green, and gray.
World Institute on Disability (WID) logo, small.
The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies logo, small.
ONG Inclusiva logo, small.
Register: https://buff.ly/3fDFAYY
[Icon of wheelchair user] When disaster strikes, disability-led organizations are on the ground right from the start, trying to fill the gaps without equitable access to traditional disaster relief channels.
[Icon: dialogue bubbles]As we have continued to engage hundreds of disabled leaders and disability-led organizations from around the world in our Global Disability and Disaster Town Hall discussions, it’s clear from their stories that it’s time for a new approach to disaster response, relief, and resilience.
[Icon Time clock] The disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and disasters on multiply-marginalized people with disabilities necessitates the acceleration of resources to disability-led organizations meeting the needs in their disaster-impacted communities.
[Icon person with arrows towards box] Based on input from disability leaders and funders committed to improving disaster outcomes, we’re building an alliance to disrupt exclusion and accelerate radical inclusion. Together, we can move resources faster and more equitably to ensure that disability-led organizations have the tools and resources they need.
Icon hands shaking in a circle of 2 arrows that point to each other's ends: Please join us at our launch event to find out how you can become a part of this exciting new initiative – it’s going to take all of us!
Seeking disability-led organizations, disabled leaders, foundations, corporate partners, and all others interested in building a global alliance that shifts power to the disability community.](https://disasterstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Invitation-to-Launch-of-the-Global-Alliance-for-Disaster-Resource-Acceleration_final_page-0001-791x1024.jpg)
Today is the anniversary of the Olmstead Supreme Court Decision. The Olmstead Decision asserted that people with disabilities have the right to state-funded community supports, instead of institutions. (https://www.olmsteadrights.org/about-olmstead/
