News & Events
Equity in Emergency Response - Meeting the needs of vulnerable populations
Every community is made up of diverse groups of residents with varied and sometimes complex everyday needs, which can quickly amplify during emergency or disaster events. Public Health – Seattle & King County is working collaboratively with community partners to connect and communicate so that no one group is disproportionately affected in an emergency.
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CDC Releases "Public Health Emergency Response Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Public Health Directors - Version 2.0"
The Public Health Emergency Response Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Public Health Directors is an all-hazards reference tool for health professionals who are responsible for initiating the public health response during the first 24 hours (i.e., the acute phase) of an emergency or disaster. It provides useful information on the activation and integration of a jurisdiction’s public health system into the existing emergency response structure during the acute phase of an incident. It also contains guidance that is applicable to specific types of incidents, such as floods, earthquakes, and acts of terrorism.
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New Courses on Planning for Disaster-Related Risk and Functional Needs of People with Disabilities: offered by The University of Kansas Research and Training Center
The University of Kansas Research and Training Center on Independent Living (RTC/IL) and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment are pleased to announce the release of two new and free continuing education courses on the TRAIN Internet educational system (for Kansans https://ks.train.org, all others www.train.org). One of the key concepts of FEMA’s “Whole Community” approach to emergency management is to understand and meet the true needs of the entire community. Continuing education courses can assist and these two new courses are designed for trainers and non-trainers. For trainers, the core curriculum can be used and modified with local information to be taught to local targeted audiences.
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FCC Public Notice Regarding Obligation to Make Emergency Information Accessible to Persons with Hearing or Vision Disabilities Released
On June 17, 2011, the Commission issued a Public Notice reminding video programming distributors (VPDs) of their obligation to make emergency information accessible. The FCC has rules in place to ensure that the critical details of emergency information shown on television are accessible to viewers with hearing or vision disabilities.
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Emergency Communications and People with Disabilities
Helena Mitchell and Frank Lucia, Wireless Emergency Communications (WEC) co-project directors, visited Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2011 for a series of meetings with FEMA (Office of Disability Integration and Coordination and IPAWS) and the FCC (Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, and Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau). They presented findings and recommendations from field trials and focus groups which examined accessible Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) alerts to wireless devices. The results were submitted to the FCC public record as Ex Parte comments in the open EAS and CMAS proceedings.
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Public Health Preparedness Capabilities:
National Standards for State and Local Planning
One of the nation's key preparedness challenges has been determining appropriate state and local public health preparedness priorities. To assist state and local public health departments in their strategic planning, CDC developed 15 capabilities to serve as national public health preparedness standards.
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New tools alert residents
Agencies send disaster notices via text and other e-methods
By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Text messages, emails and other electronic tools played key roles as Hawaii's civil defense agencies tried to get the word out quickly and accurately about last month's tsunami here generated by the earthquake off Japan, officials said.
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