[BHS etree] BSPED NEWS: Disaster Preparedness for Special Needs Populations

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BSPED NEWS 04/02/05
A service of The Berkeley Special Education Parents Network (BSPED)
e-tree contact: Ann McDonald-Cacho / 510-525-9262 / Replies to:
BSPED at mcads.com

Topic: Disaster Preparedness for Special Needs Populations

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FREE Class Series - Disaster Preparedness for Special Needs Populations
Information provided by BSPED member and City of Berkeley Commissioner on
Disability, Ed Gold / (510) 524-2670 / one_bklynboy at yahoo.com

UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness and Collaborating
Agencies Responding to Disasters (CARD) are working together to offer a
special series on disaster preparedness for special needs populations. The
course is designed to help public health and emergency response
professionals and other decision-makers to better understand and effectively
address disaster preparedness for special needs populations.

The series encompasses the specific information and topics that need to be
addressed by ANY community, including each of our schools, and is exactly
the comprehensive training for which those with children with disabilities
in the BUSD have been long advocating.

We urge our administrators, principals, Board directors, safety officers,
site and safety committees, PTAs, families and all those who need to
understand and comprehensively address this critical missing piece of school
safety, to take advantage of this opportunity to send key people to these
trainings, or to schedule participation by webcast, so that we may
adequately prepare for the safety needs of this population.

Presented by: Ana-Marie Jones, Executive Director, CARD - Collaborating
Agencies Responding to Disasters

Dates & Topics covered include:

  a.. March 29th: Defining vulnerable and special needs communities
  b.. April 5th: Disaster threats and traditional emergency service agencies
  c.. April 12th: Marketing, Outreach, Public Information and barriers to
reaching people with special needs
  d.. April 19th: Community Based Organizations in preparedness, response,
recovery and mitigation
  e.. April 26th: Tools and resources for serving hard-to-reach populations
  f.. May 3rd: Empowered Partnerships - how public health workers, local
government and committed community partners can best support special needs
preparedness
  g.. May 10th: Class recap and presentation of class projects
Note: this is a FREE series.
Times: Tuesdays, 10:30am - Noon
Host: UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness
Location: 1918 University Avenue, Berkeley CA 94704 - 4th Floor
Map: http://tinyurl.com/5bpcz
To participate via webcast: please visit http://www.idready.org
For more information or to sign up: please contact Mikael Wagner at:
mikaelwagner at berkeley.edu

PLEASE NOTE: Community organizations serving vulnerable and special needs
residents are encouraged to attend to share their knowledge and experience.

CARD - Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters.
Created after the Loma Prieta earthquake, CARD specializes in providing
emergency preparedness and disaster response support to community agencies
and others serving at-risk, marginalized and special needs clients. Funded
by Pacific Gas and Electric Company, United Way of the Bay Area, Alameda
County Operational Area and other local agencies, CARD's vision is to
empower the full participation of all vulnerable and diverse communities to
create the most humane, inclusive and prepared community in the world.
Please visit them at http://www.FirstVictims.org

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