The Partnership’s Disability & Disaster Hotline provides information, referrals, guidance, technical assistance and resources to people with disabilities, their families, allies, organizations assisting disaster impacted individuals with disabilities and others seeking assistance with immediate and urgent disaster-related needs.
The Disaster Hotline is always available for intake calls, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Our hotline team is led by experts on the many issues affecting people with disabilities in disasters and strategies for meeting those immediate needs. Our team will respond to your call as soon as possible, often immediately, and we intend to respond to all callers within 24 hours.
We can provide accessible and multilingual information to callers, including via videophone for Deaf callers, upon request to info@disasterstrategies.org.
Issues we provide information, guidance, and referrals for:
Prevention of institutionalization during and after disasters
Applying for, understanding and navigating FEMA and other federal, state and local government emergency and disaster programs and services
Disability rights before, during and after disasters
Accessible and actionable emergency information
Building and neighborhood evacuation
Accessible transportation
Sheltering and temporary housing
Disaster housing programs
Alternatives to “special needs” and “medical” sheltering and “special needs” and “voluntary” registries
Health maintenance
Health care access
Disability accommodations in disasters
Repair, replacement and loaned durable medical equipment, disability supplies, and assistive devices
Returning home, school, work and community after a disaster
Navigating disaster recovery initiatives
Disaster funding
The Disaster Hotline is available to:
Disaster impacted individuals with disabilities, their families and allies
Disability advocacy and services organizations
Community organizations seeking to assist disaster impacted individuals with disabilities
Government and non-government representatives from emergency management, public health, medical, private sector, business, voluntary organizations active in disasters, faith-based, elected officials and others seeking to assist individuals with disabilities and disaster-impacted communities
Hotline
Disability & Disaster Hotline:
Call/Text: +1 (800) 626-4959
Email: info@disasterstrategies.org
The Partnership’s Disability & Disaster Hotline provides information, referrals, guidance, technical assistance and resources to people with disabilities, their families, allies, organizations assisting disaster impacted individuals with disabilities and others seeking assistance with immediate and urgent disaster-related needs.
The Disaster Hotline is always available for intake calls, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Our hotline team is led by experts on the many issues affecting people with disabilities in disasters and strategies for meeting those immediate needs. Our team will respond to your call as soon as possible, often immediately, and we intend to respond to all callers within 24 hours.
We can provide accessible and multilingual information to callers, including via videophone for Deaf callers, upon request to info@disasterstrategies.org.
Issues we provide information, guidance, and referrals for:
The Disaster Hotline is available to: