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Emergency Preparedness

Pierce, Jones and Associates LLC is partnering with Clallam County Emergency management to provide training on how to be safe in an emergency. The Ready Set Go program was designed to assist individual with developmental disabilities in acquiring the skills needed to take care of themselves when disasters strike.

Inclusive planning helped to save lives and speed recovery in the Houston area after Hurricane Rita hit. In many other places, like New Orleans, emergency plans fell apart or failed to include people with disabilities all together. In Miami, as of two weeks after the disaster, disability organizations had just returned to damaged buildings with partial power to begin to assess the needs of their consumers. Requests to the county emergency management agency to clarify public information about who would be accepted in shelters were not heeded prior to the storm. Therefore, many people with disabilities who could have gone to shelters were still stranded in their houses without food or power.

The Ready Set Go trainings are held in eight week sessions with 2 hour classes once a week.

In the Ready Set Go trainings we discuss different types of disasters and how to prepare for them. Each individual is trained on what is needed in an emergency and how to use it.

Everyone taking this course will get a large duffle bag with a handle and wheels, and everything needed to survive for 72 hours.

Items in Emergency Preparedness Kit:

Below you will find all the items included in the Emergency Preparedness Kit. Please roll over each image to read the description of the item.

Session outline

  1. Expecting the Unexpected: disaster menu
  2. Survivors
  3. Stay in Place or Evacuate to Shelter
  4. The Orange Duffel Bag: task analysis format
    1. Flashlights
    2. Radios
    3. Space Blankets
    4. Phones
    5. Water & Food
    6. Medicines
    7. Band-aids & Bleeding
    8. Porta Potty 101
  5. Tent Builders
  6. Okay/Help: who will help
  7. Our Lessons Learned

Learning outcomes

At the end of the sessions participants will be able to:

  1. Define what disasters we could face in Washington State.
  2. Know how to present about the items to keep in clients' survival bags.
  3. Understand the difference between "staying in place" and "evacuating to a shelter."
  4. Promote preparedness for people with developmental disabilities within their Counties.

Sign up for summer classes will begin August 1st, and the class will be held in Sequim.

More information will be available soon.