Patient, Family, and Provider Preparedness

Health care providers play a vital role in preparing families of children and youth with disabilities in their community.  These resources are designed to position your community to “Be Ready” for  disaster. Using these materials as part of on-boarding all health care providers during orientation, continuing education, workshops, exercises and emergency management planning groups can assure that families of children with disabilities are disaster ready.

Families with children and youth with disabilities and medical needs are known to be some of the most vulnerable in a disaster. These families have fewer resources, and they require both community and health care provider support to achieve readiness.

When these families are disaster ready, they are less likely to suffer adverse consequences and are more resilient. The following toolkit of videos and accompanying infographics have been designed to meet to the diverse needs of the communities we serve.

Other Language Versions

English subtitles with voice over | American Sign Language (ASL) | Español (Spanish) |français (French) | عربي (Arabic) | Bấm để phát video này bằng tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) | kreyòl ayisyen (Haitian Creole) | 简单的中文 (simplified Chinese) | 中國人 (traditional Chinese) | 한국인 (Korean) | Tagalog

4 page guidance; 2 min (2009).