Emergency Preparedness planning is essential to minimizing the impacts of disasters on communities and individuals. The office of emergency preparedness works closely and collaboratively with regional center emergency coordinators and other stakeholders in all planning efforts to identify emergency preparedness gaps and needs to individuals served as well as work to develop solutions to close those gaps and increase individual preparedness efforts.
The Department of Developmental Services plays an active role in responding and takes a proactive approach to ensuring the health and safety of the DDS’ service system by facilitating emergency response activities and improving emergency response readiness. DDS has identified the need to develop emergency preparedness material, providing necessary training and education, securing emergency go kits and portable batteries for consumers living independently or with limited supports dependent on power for life-sustaining equipment and who live within high fire threat district areas.
- Emergency Go-Kits
- The Department has contracted with Supply Bank who will purchase go-kit items, assemble the go-kits and deliver go-kits to regional centers who will provide to individuals qualified to receive a go-kit as well as who attended the go-kit training session.
- Portable Batteries
- The Department has contracted with California Foundation of Independent Living Centers (CFILC) and the Disability Disaster Access and Resources (DDAR) program to provide individuals with portable batteries to those requiring power for life-sustaining equipment. To learn more about DDAR please click here.
- Emergency Preparedness Materials
- The Department has contracted with American Red Cross to develop emergency preparedness training materials preparing individuals for wildfire evacuation.
Workbook and Materials
The Feeling Safe, Being Safe workbook will help you make a plan that you can use in case of an emergency. The videos demonstrate how to complete the workbook and put together a home emergency kit. The printable magnet lets you post your important emergency contact information on your refrigerator for first responders.
- Training on your own PDF
- Host a training PDF
Instructions
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- Feeling Safe, Being Safe (FSBS) Worksheet PDF
- Spanish PDF
- Simplified Chinese PDF
- Traditional Chinese PDF
- Tagalog PDF
- Vietnamese PDF
- Feeling Safe Being Safe Magnet PDF
- Spanish PDF
Instructional Videos:
Instructional Video for FSBS Packet
Introduction & Materials
Being Prepared
The Emergency Worksheet
The Magnet
The Emergency Kit
Community Supports
- Emergency Kit Supply List PDF
- Spanish PDF
- Background PDF
- This 22-page booklet describes why and how the DDS Consumer Advisory Committee, worked for 18 months to develop Feeling Safe, Being Safe – emergency preparedness tools for a wide range of people and field-tested the tools to make sure that the materials could work for everyone.
- Frequently Asked Questions PDF about trainings on the emergency preparedness materials
SCE Resources
- Medical Baseline Allowance Program & Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) Information PDF
- Spanish PDF
- Arabic PDF
- Armenian PDF
- Farsi PDF
- Hmong PDF
- Korean PDF
- Simplified Chinese PDF
- Tagalog PDF
- Traditional Chinese PDF
- Vietnamese PDF
PG&E Resources
- Flood/Disaster Recovery
- Active Shooter
- Earthquake
- Excessive Heat PDF
- Spanish PDF
- Tagalog PDF
- Traditional Chinese PDF
- Vietnamese PDF
Preparing for a Disaster
Video is also available in the following languages
- Preparing for a Disaster (ASL)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Descriptive Audio)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Spanish)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Vietnamese)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Chinese)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Korean)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Russian)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Hmong)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Khmer)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Armenian)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Arabic)
- Preparing for a Disaster (Farsi)
Last modified: January 23, 2023