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Updated 07.23.26

This site features June Isaacson Kailes’s work on emergencies, health care, and disability competencies. You will find tools, checklists, articles, podcasts, blogs, and videos focused on including disability knowledge, skills, and practices (competencies and capabilities) in emergencies, disasters, health, health care, and hospitality. Older materials are archived at jik.com. New and updated content is posted on this site. Contact June

Disability Policy Consultant

June Isaacson Kailes owns a disability policy consulting practice and is a pioneer, leader, and innovator in health care, emergency management, aging with disability, stakeholder engagement, and hospitality. She is respected as a writer, trainer, researcher, policy analyst, subject matter expert, and advocate. The breadth and depth of her experience in disability, accessibility, and functional needs issues are widely recognized. Contact

Services include:

• Replacing vague concepts of disability etiquette, sensitivity, awareness, and legal compliance with clear, impactful practices and measurable skill sets.
• Developing disability competencies and capabilities.
• Translating laws and regulations into clear, actionable, detailed, and sustainable building blocks and tools that address service gaps, prevent civil rights violations, and remove barriers, inequities, and disparities.
• Using the “how, who, what, where, when, and why” to achieve physical, programmatic, communication, and equipment access!
• Providing follow-up technical support.
• Presenting keynote addresses, workshops, and seminars (remote and in-person).
• Facilitating Communities of Practice.

Clients include:

• Local, state, federal, and international governments
• Disability-led, disability-focused, community-based organizations
• Emergency management and health care consultants
• Health plans, clinics, medical centers, systems
• Legal firms and services
• Colleges and universities
• Accrediting organizations
• Research and training centers
• Grant makers