Guidance for Integrating People with Disabilities in Emergency Drills and Exercises (pdf), Edition 2, 2020,easier to use format with updated content [see Edition 2015 below] including:
- Identifying and Recruiting Qualified Disability Subject Matter Experts
- Roles for Qualified Disability Subject Matter Experts
- Use Real Actors with Disabilities
- Budget
- Recruiting
- Location Accessibility
- Timing
- Communication Access for All Participants and Actors
- Disability-related Inject Ideas
- Participation in Hot Wash
- Samples: Request for Participants and Actor’s Guide – What to Know Before You Go!
Guidance for Integrating People with Disabilities in Emergency Drills, Table Tops and Exercises Edition 1, (2015) – Guidance prepared for North Carolina Emergency Management. It uses the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Master Task List format, commonly employed in the field, to provide a set of guiding principles for exercise programs and a shared approach to exercise program management, design, development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning. The second column highlights new steps to recruit, accommodate, include, and gather feedback from people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs in exercises. It also includes suggestions for injects tailored to specific exercises.
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