Missouri Emergency Management and Functional Needs Resources

Bedside Emergency Supply Kit contains essential items you may need if you are trapped in or near your bed and unable to get to other parts of your home. Keep important items in a nightstand next to your bed so you can quickly and easily access them.  Use this checklist as a tool to ensure you have the necessary items in your Bedside Emergency Supply Kit.

MOEMA brings together emergency management and public safety professionals for the purpose of networking, idea sharing, and innovation. Providing emergency management certification through its MoCEM program, MOEMA ensures that emergency management best practices are advanced throughout the state.

The State Emergency Management Agency’s mission is to help our fellow Missourians prepare for, respond to and recover from all emergencies. Each step will be guided by our core values of respect, integrity, trust, honesty and compassion.

Disability awareness helps to remove barriers so that responsible, selfsufficient people with disabilities can assume risks, make choices and contribute as they wish… this is a vision in which we all win.

Supported Decision-Making is getting help when you need it, from people you trust, so you can make your own decisions about your life.

The mission of The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies is equity for people with disabilities and people with access and functional needs throughout all planning, programs, services and procedures before, during and after disasters and emergencies.

Our office helps FEMA deliver the agency’s shared mission of helping people before, during and after disasters in ways that maximize the inclusion of, and accessibility for, people with disabilities.

Our office helps FEMA deliver the agency’s shared mission of helping people before, during and after disasters in ways that maximize the inclusion of, and accessibility for, people with disabilities.

The National Council on Disability (NCD) plays a critical role in promoting successful disability policies regarding emergency management through the publication of information and policy recommendations. Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) implemented changes to the emergency alert requirements that paralleled NCD’s recommendations in the 2005 report Saving Lives: Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning.

Disability intersects every demographic group—there are people with disabilities of all ages, races, genders or national origin. And, disabilities can impact a person in a variety of ways—both visible and invisible. For people with disabilities and their families, it is important to consider individual circumstances and needs to effectively prepare for emergencies and disasters. 

In an emergency situation, thorough preparation is key to an effective response. Seniors and individuals with functional needs need to be prepared for any type of emergency. Ready in 3 outlines steps you can take now to prepare.

The Family Safety Guide provides detailed information on the three steps in preparing in advance of any emergency.

Text-to-911 is the ability to send a text message to reach 911 emergency call takers from your mobile phone or device. However, because voice calls to 911 provide more information to 911 call centers, you should always make a voice call to 911 during an emergency whenever possible.

Emergency Preparedness: It has been evident that during a disaster an evacuation plan for individuals with disabilities' needs shall be met. Community and statewide emergency preparedness teams are developing a plan to ensure that all individuals with disabilities are included in the development of plans for protection from both natural and man-made emergencies. This tab provides access to task forces and tips on preparing for disasters.

Disabled people have often been afterthoughts in emergency and disaster management and planning. Time and again our community has paid the price for not being considered. We have been left out of evacuation strategies. We have encountered inaccessible shelters. We frequently run into emergency responses that don’t engage our languages or methods of communication. Not accounting for the needs of the disability community in emergency and disaster response violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.  

At-risk individuals are people with access and functional needs (AFN) (temporary or permanent) that may interfere with their ability to access or receive medical care before, during, or after a disaster or public health emergency. Irrespective of specific diagnosis, status, or label, the term access and functional needs is used to describe a broad set of common and crosscutting access and functional needs

Different populations may face similar risks of exposure to the negative effects of environmental and man-made disasters, but their actual vulnerability is dependent on their socio-economic conditions, civic and social empowerment, and access to mitigation and relief resources. Individuals with disabilities are disproportionately affected in disaster, emergency, and conflict situations due to inaccessible evacuation, response (including shelters, camps, and food distribution), and recovery efforts.

FEMA has information to help you prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters specific to your location. Use this page to find local disaster recovery centers, flood maps, fact sheets, FEMA contacts, jobs and other resources.

Emergency Preparedness and People who are Blind and Visually Impaired: A Handbook for the Consumer

Transportation is the key to access to employment, recreational activities and full participation in community life. The majority of individuals with disabilities depend on public transit to be mobile in their communities. This menu tab presents information about transportation resources that are available in Missouri.

Every person of every ability should pre-plan for an emergency. People with physical or other impairments should prepare for an evacuation.

This page provides evacuation guidelines for persons with disabilities who believe they will need assistance in the event of a fire or other building emergencies.

On this page “persons with disabilities” is defined as anyone who might need assistance during a building emergency. Faculty, staff, students and visitors with disabilities who believe they will need assistance in the event of an evacuation should develop their own emergency plans and identify primary and secondary evacuation routes from each building they use.

Transportation is the key to access to employment, recreational activities and full participation in community life. The majority of individuals with disabilities depend on public transit to be mobile in their communities. This menu tab presents information about transportation resources that are available in Missouri.

The Missouri Planning Council for Developmental Disabilities (MPC) believes that persons with developmental disabilities (DD) should be able to have transportation that is available and meets their needs. Without accessible transportation, persons with DD may not be fully included in the community.

Public transportation is necessary for many folks. For others, it might be a way to save a few bucks, skip traffic, or help the environment. Whatever the case, the safety risks loom larger for people with disabilities. Rideshares bring similar safety concerns, too.

BART trains and stations are designed with accessible features  for seniors and persons with disabilities. This brochure highlights some of those special fares, station attributes, boarding and  emergency procedures, and connecting transit options.

This installment focuses on evacuating people who need assistance in leaving an area, particularly people with disabilities, aging populations, people living in congregate or residential care facilities, and those with household pets

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is committed to providing emergency preparedness as an essential activity in meeting the needs of all people at its facilities, including people with disabilities and other medical conditions. Under Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act, as amended (29 U.S.C. 791), and implementing regulations, the Department has a responsibility to provide adequate hiring, placement, and advancement opportunities for individuals with disabilities and reasonable accommodation in the workplace.

The mass transportation system in the United States has seen an increase in the number of elderly and disabled persons who use mass transit. With this increase in use, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) has recognized the need to consider the unique characteristics and needs of elderly and disabled passengers in rail transit emergency response planning.

During an emergency, transit agency employees may be CONTENTS responsible for managing incidents, assessing situations, and taking appropriate actions. Crisis management is stressful, so Document emergency transit agency staff not only need clear procedures to follow, response procedures  but also training and practice on how to carry out those    pg. 2 procedures.

NADTC Provides resources and training on accessible transportation to empower communities and support individuals.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to both public and private ground transportation providers. The ADA rules that apply to transportation are regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The physical accessibility of public transportation increased nationwide following the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. Despite removal of many physical barriers within fixed-route systems, significant barriers to overall access of public transportation systems are still widespread. The purpose of the current study was to provide a full description of barriers experienced by individuals with disabilities when using the public transportation and the complementary paratransit services.

Housing is the cornerstone of the American independence. This tab presents resources on affordable and accessible housing options. It offers information on universal design features that can be incorporated in the design of homes to enhance "aging in the home."

Provides a warming shelter and a cooling site during extreme cold weather.

Provides a variety of services for senior citizens; including congregate meals, home delivered meals, senior ride program property tax relief application prep services, senior center services, mass care shelter, an extreme cold warming center, and an extreme heat cooling center.

Offer many different types of youth and adult sports programs; including Y facilities, sack lunches/dinners, summer food program, day camps, mass care shelter, and extreme cold warming center, and an extreme heat cooling center.

Provides a variety of services for senior citizens including, congregate meals, home delivered meals, senior ride program, tax prep assistance, property tax relief application prep services, senior center services, mass care shelter, an extreme cold warming center and an extreme heat cooling center.

The thousands of staff and volunteers of the Red Cross are here for you with emergency aid when you need it most, and also advice and assistance to help you recover from a disaster or become better prepared to face one in the future.

The Functional Needs Registry is a database containing information about individuals residing in the City of St. Louis who may require assistance in the event of an emergency.

Individuals, of any age, are eligible to be registered with the City of St. Louis Functional Needs Registry if they have specific needs that prevent them from taking care of themselves in the event of an emergency.