CERT Training for Individuals with Disabilities

Webinar: CERT Training for Individuals with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs

 

The FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Division is pleased to invite you to a webinar that focuses on practices that will help ensure a positive and accessible experience for CERT participants with disabilities and others with access and functional needs.

Everyone has a role to play in keeping our communities safe. CERT volunteers, trainers, and program managers with a diverse range of experiences, skills, and abilities -- including many with disabilities and others with access and functional needs -- make valuable contributions in preparing their communities for disasters and supporting response and recovery efforts. CERT program activities are inclusive, so training should be as well. It is not difficult to make reasonable accommodations for including people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs in CERT training. However, it’s a good idea to plan ahead to ensure that their specific needs are accounted for and that they feel welcome and engaged.

Title: CERT Training for Individuals with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs

Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Time:  3:00 - 4:30 p.m. (ET)

Guest speakers:

• Gay Jones, FEMA Office of Disability Integration and Coordination (ODIC)
• Kathryn Gerk, Emergency Services Manager, Richmond, CA Fire Department
• Jennifer Fales, Emergency Management Coordinator, Kansas City, MO Office of Emergency Management

Our featured speakers will share their insights and advice on how to engage and include individuals with disabilities and others with access and functional needs in CERT training and activities, lessons they’ve learned from their experiences, and how their efforts have benefitted their programs and communities. The webinar will conclude with a question and answer session.

How to Join the Webinar:

• Adobe Connect Registration Web Link: https://icpd.adobeconnect.com/certtraining1/event/registration.html
• Please register for the event.  Be sure to test your Adobe Connect connection prior to the meeting by clicking here.
• This webinar will offer closed captioning.

We hope that you will be able to join us on July 15! If you can’t make it, we will be posting the recording, transcript, and slide deck of the presentation on this page, under “Citizen Corps Partners/Affiliates”: http://www.ready.gov/preparedness-leader/webinar-library. You can also view our most recent webinar on developing resources for CERT programs at: https://icpd.adobeconnect.com/p4zrhbiqeml/.