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"