Updated 05.11.09

“The intent of using Functional Assessment Service Teams (FASTs) in shelters is to recognize that some people need assistance with essential functional needs and some do not. What is important is that response planning incorporates ways to offer life preservers and safety nets.
Safety nets help people, whose margin of resiliency is smaller and whose vulnerability is greater, get essential functional needs met in unstable and changing environments.
Some people and systems confuse safety nets with fishing nets. Fishing nets, as they do with fish, scoop people from environments in which they coped or thrived, confine them and threaten their health, safety and independence.”
June Isaacson Kailes, Disability Policy Consultant, 2008
Functional Assessment Service Teams
http://www.cdss.ca.gov/dis/PG1909.htm (LAST ACCESSED 04.3.09)This site contains information about disaster sheltering for People with Disabilities and Elderly (PWD/E) and Functional Assessment Service Teams (FAST):
Workshop Handouts
Emergency
Power Planning for People Who Use Electricity and Battery Dependent
Assistive
Technology and Medical Devices, June Kailes, 2006
Planning
Kailes.
J. 2008. Southern California Wildfires After Action Report
- Formats:
PDF, Text
Highlights
many disaster
response and recovery areas of specific and significant concern to the
diverse
disabilities communities in California. It documents the experiences of people with disabilities and individuals
with
access and functional needs. The areas
covered include:
cross
cutting issues,
communication
access,
mass care
and shelter,
evacuation
and transportation,
role
nongovernmental provider and advocacy organizations in disaster
response,
long
term care facilities,
training
and exercise programs.
Kailes,
J. 2007. Access
and Functional
Services Coordinator, California Governor’s Office of Emergency
Service,
Proposed Deputy Director Position
(Version 3),
posted 05/3/07
At-Risk Populations and
Pandemic Influenza: Planning Guidance For State, Territorial, Tribal,
and Local
Health Departments, June 2008, last accessed 7/27/08
Guidance on Planning and Responding to the Needs of
People with
Disabilities and Older Adults - for emergency managers and planners,
and disability and older adult service systems, for planning and
responding,
during disasters and recovery, produced by the California’s
Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, Office
of Access and Functional Needs. Last accessed
11/22/08
Serving
and Protecting All by Applying Lessons Learned Including People with
Disabilities
and Seniors in Disaster Services, (March 2006), June Kailes and
California Foundation for Independent Living, last accessed 01/17/08
jik@pacbell.net
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Kailes, Disability Policy Consultant, All Rights Reserved.
Created 11/8/97
| Updated 05.11.09