What About Me??

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What About Me??
A Glimpse into the World of a Person with a
Disability During a Disaster

• KOIN / KY Functional Needs Collaborative Annual
  Workshop

September 04, 2012 Frankfort, KY Presented by
Lanny Taulbee, Disabilities Coordinator Kentucky
Commission on Community Volunteerism Service
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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations
OK, What about me?

• What are special needs and who are functional
  and access needs populations?
• Why am I considered one of them?

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• From Wikipedia
• Special needs is a term used in clinical
  diagnostic and functional development to describe
  individuals who require assistance for
  disabilities such as medical, mental, or
  psychological conditions.

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• Categories by Medical Condition
• Visual
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• Speech
• Mobility
• Cognitive/Psychiatric/Intellectual
• Other Hidden Disabilities

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• Vulnerable Populations with Special Needs
  include . . .
• Physical Disabilities
• Cognitive Disabilities
• Medically Dependent, Medically Compromised
• Blind
• Deaf, Deaf-Blind, Hard of Hearing
• Seniors
• Children
• Non-English or Limited English Proficiency
• Homeless and Shelter Dependent
• Undocumented Persons

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• The National Response Framework (NRF) published
  in the Interim Emergency Management Planning
  Guide for Special Needs Populations, Version 1.0
  (August 15, 2008) their definition for special
  needs that provides a function-based approach
  reflecting the capabilities of the individual,
  not the diagnosis or medical condition.
• The definition of
• special needs populations
• appears in the NRF is as follow

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• Populations whose members may have additional
  needs before, during, and after an incident in
  functional areas, including but not limited to
• Maintaining independence
• Communication
• Transportation
• Supervision
• Medical Care

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• What additional needs might I have during a
  disaster?

• If I must evacuate to a shelter or be evacuated
  to a shelter?
• Transportation
• ADL equipment
• Personal assistance

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• What additional needs might I have at a
  shelter?

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations
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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• What other types of equipment/supplies/ services
  should be on hand or easily accessible to me?

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• What else might I need to bring to a shelter?

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• What types of supplies or services might I need
  at home if I must
• Shelter-in-place?

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations
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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• Aaah, the famous ICE Storms . . .
• Freezing rain and sleet
• Then the LIGHTS went out . . .

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations
What did I need to have on hand?
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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations
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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations
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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• What else did I need?

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations
Vulnerable populations are more than people with
disabilities or senior citizens?

• Each of us has different needs that make our
  situation unique.

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations

• Some disabilities, such as those
• involving physical impairments
• may be obvious.
• Other functional needs, such as
• non-English speaking or deafness, are more
  difficult
• to detect.
• In many cases, you cant
• tell just by looking at someone
• whether or
  not they have
• a functional need.

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DISABILITY INCLUSION In Emergency Situations

• The key to success for both provider and
  recipient is having the right attitude . . .
• So Keep It
• POSITIVE!

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Functional Needs Populations In Emergency
Situations
PLANNING FOR DISASTER

• Be Aware
• Be Prepared
• Have a Plan
• Let Me Know Your Plan
• Make a Kit

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END

• AND REMEMBER . . .
• Were All
• In This
• Together . . .
• THE
• END