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Great Web Sites

There are a great number of resources available on the Internet to inform and assist people with disabilities and emergency planners with disaster preparedness. Website with lists of what to pack in an emergency kit, how to's on developing step-by-step evacuation plans for individuals, families or businesses and disaster "do's and don'ts" are but a few of the topics that can be found on the following websites:

Many of these agencies provide materials in large font, audio or video cassettes formats, and different languages.

American Association for People with Disabilities
www.aapd.com This link will open a new browser window.

American Foundation for the Blind
www.afb.org This link will open a new browser window.

The American Red Cross
www.prepare.org This link will open a new browser window.
www.redcross.org/services/disaster/beprepared/disability.html This link will open a new browser window.

Department of Health & Human Services-Administration on Aging
www.aoa.dhhs.gov This link will open a new browser window.

The Department of Homeland Security
www.dhs.gov/disabiitypreparedness This link will open a new browser window.
www.ready.gov This link will open a new browser window.

Disability Preparedness Center
www.disabilitypreparedness.org This link will open a new browser window.

The Disability Resource Monthly
www.disabilityresources.org/DISASTER.html This link will open a new browser window.

Disaster Do's & Don'ts from Nobody Left Behind
www.rtcil.org/posters_orderform.htm This link will open a new browser window.

The Disaster Management Initiative
www.disasterhelp.gov This link will open a new browser window.

Disaster Mitigation for Persons with Disabilities
www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/independentliving/
disasterprep.htm
This link will open a new browser window.

Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities
www.jik.com/disaster.html This link will open a new browser window.

Easter Seals (s.a.f.e.t.y. First program)
www.easter-seals.org This link will open a new browser window.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
www.fema.gov/preparedness This link will open a new browser window.
www.fema.gov/library/disprepf.shtm This link will open a new browser window.

Humane Society of the U.S. (Disaster Center)
www.hsus.org/hsus_field/hsus_disaster_center This link will open a new browser window.

Job Accommodation Network
www.jan.wvu.edu/media/emergency.html This link will open a new browser window.

July 2004 Executive Order on Individuals with Disabilities in Emergency Preparedness
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/07/
20040722-10.html
This link will open a new browser window.

National Association of the Deaf
www.nad.org This link will open a new browser window.

The National Council on Disability
www.ncod.gov This link will open a new browser window.

National Fire Prevention Association
www.nfpa.org This link will open a new browser window.

The National Organization on Disability
www.nod.org/emergency This link will open a new browser window.
www.nod.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage
&pageId=11
This link will open a new browser window.

Nobody Left Behind
www.rtcil.org This link will open a new browser window.

Protecting your Service Dog in an Emergency
www.disabilitycentral.com/world/docs_dispatch_dc.htm This link will open a new browser window.

Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.
www.tdi-online.org This link will open a new browser window.

United Spinal Association
www.unitedspiral.org This link will open a new browser window.

The U.S. Access Board
www.access-board.gov This link will open a new browser window.


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