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National Presentations:

September 2011 FEMA Getting Real II Presentation
•Being Prepared: MN Emergency Preparedness Center: The Lessons Learned Through North MPLS May 22nd Tornado

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- Description of presentation: On May 22, 2011 North Minneapolis F1 Tornado ripped through North Minneapolis an urban poor community. Families of individuals who had access or functional needs chose to stay in their homes even through their yards were littered with live electrical wires, homes had gas leaks, no power or water do to the realistic fear of their homes being broken their property stolen.
- Our Promising Practice is to expand current policies and procedures to include urban, poor, high crime communities. Too often, urban poor community’s unique needs are not included when developing local, state and national emergency preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation programs.
- And through our Being Prepared: MN Emergency Preparedness Center’s ‘My Personal Safety Plan’ individuals with access and functional needs are able to choose how they would like to receive information and services including who will deliver those services. The use of icons remove barriers to non-readers, new immigrants and others with reading challenges have equal access to the information serving the whole community.
January 2012 AutismNow Webinar "Being Prepared: Minnesota's Emergency Preparedness Center"
View PowerPoint Slides from this webinar.

Trainings: Please Contact Julie Kenney at Julie.Kenneyipsiiinc@gmail.com or 612.861.3215

On Eagles Wings Leadership Training December 2011-March 2012
Being Prepared: MN Emergency Preparedness Center Trainings
- We will training at least 60 people with DD and their families next trainings begin June 2012
- We will train at least 5 first responder groups on how to work with people with autism trainings begin October 2011