• Emergency Managers, Responders, Service & Care Providers
• Emergency Managers & First Responders
• Service & Care Providers
• Transportation & Emergencies
• Disability Law: Know your Responsibilities

Service and Care Providers

Care providers do just that, “provide care.” A care provider may provide care for an individual or groups of individuals, in homes or in schools, businesses, and residential settings. Care providers may be medical professionals and therapists who can incorporate accessible emergency preparedness planning into their treatment and therapy routine. Persons with disabilities may be with their care provider during an emergency and if so, that care provider will have hands-on responsibility to assist the person with a disability in evacuating or sheltering-in place.

The following web sites have more information for care providers:

• Communicating Crisis (PDF) (96 pp, 454 K)
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services guide on communicating to the public during times of emergency.
• State Offices and Agencies of Emergency Management
  U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s list of all the state emergency management agencies and their website addresses.
• Evacuation Preparedness Guide
  Center for Disability Issues in Health Profession's guide on accessible emergency evacuation.
• Emergency Preparation for Special Populations: Pediatric Patients
  Tips to help organizations make sure their emergency management plans meet the needs of vulnerable pediatric patients.
• The Dialogue, a Quarterly Technical Assistance Bulletin on Disaster Behavioral Health (PDF) (23 pp, 2.7 MB)
  Tips to help organizations make sure their emergency management plans meet the needs of vulnerable pediatric patients.

For more information in this Resource Center for care providers, try these pages:

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