Planning for Resource Disruptions: What To Do When Disaster Strikes

Prepare for when disaster strikes by identifying your family's actual resource needs. We will introduce you to the Access and Functional Needs Resource Framework which suggests that there are resources everyone needs to function before, during, and after emergencies, regardless of who they are. In this introductory course, participants gain a basic understanding of the Access and Functional Needs Resource Framework and the CMIST Resource Memory Tool. 

CMIST will help you communicate with the emergency manager what resources you need to maintain functioning during disasters. CMIST Memory tool stands for Communication, Maintaining Health and Medical, Independence, Support Service and Safety, and Transportation resources. These are critical items to help you regardless of who you are to save lives and property when disasters strike.

Sadie Martinez is the Colorado State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management's Access and Functional Needs Coordinator. She supports state agencies and local jurisdictions in the development of inclusive, whole community emergency-operations plans that adequately account for people with Access and Functional Needs. Sadie uses the CMIST resource framework, which provides a whole-community inclusion approach to identify the actual resource needs of the community in Communication, Maintaining Health/Medical, Independence, Support Services and Safety, and Transportation resources, rather than a specific “special need” or vulnerability. This helps responders and agencies better understand what capabilities to acquire before, during, and after a disaster and helps create a shared language that reaches across language, disability, under-resourced, under-served barriers, and emergency management.

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