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Use the online resources listed below to learn more and better plan for your own personal disaster preparedness. Click here to use the Family Resource Coalition, Inc, Regional Post Disaster Resource listing.

American Red Cross
www.redcross.org • call your local chapter

Center for Disability Issues and the Health Profession, Western University of Health Sciences
evac@westernu.edu • (909) 469-5380 (voice) • (909) 469-5520 (TTY).

Easter Seals (s.a.f.e.t.y. First program)
www.easter-seals.org • (800)221-6827 (voice) • (312)726-4258 (TTY)

Federal Emergency Management Agency
http://www.fema.gov/preparedness/ • (800)480-2520 (voice)

Humane Society of the U.S. (Disaster Center)
www.hsus.org/hsus_field/hsus_disaster_center/ • (202)452-1100 (voice)

National Organization on Disability
www.nod.org/emergency • (202)293-5960 (voice) • (202)293-5968 (TTY)

National Spinal Cord Research Association Resource Center on Emergency Preparedness
www.spinalcord.org • (800) 962-9629 (voice)

NOAA Weather Radio
www.weather.gov/nwer/special_needs.htm

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
www.ready.gov • (800)BE READY (voice) • (800)464-6161 (TTY)

U.S. Fire Administration
www.usfa.fema.gov/safety/atrisk/ • (301)447-1000 (voice)

United Spinal Association
www.unitedspinal.org • (718) 803-3782 (voice)

The Center For An Accessible Society
www.accessiblesociety.org/

Disability Preparedness Resource Center
www.disabilitypreparedness.gov/
This disability preparedness web site provides practical information on how people with and without disabilities can prepare for an emergency. It also provides information for family members of, and service providers to, people with disabilities. In addition, this site includes information for emergency planners and first responders to help them to better prepare for serving persons with disabilities.

An ADA Guide for Local Governments - Making Community Emergency Preparedness
and Response Programs Accessible to People with Disabilities
www.ada.gov/
www.ada.gov/emergencyprep.htm

Center for Disease Control and Prevention - Disabilities/Limitations
www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/disable.htm

The Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities
www.advocacycenter.org/

The Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc., is a non-profit organization providing protection and advocacy services in the State of Florida. Our mission is to advance the dignity, equality, self-determination and expressed choices of individuals with disabilities.

Independent Living Research Utilization
http://www.ilru.org/index.html
Centers for independent living (CILs) are private, nonprofit corporations that provide services to maximize the independence of individuals with disabilities and the accessibility of the communities they live in.

Agency for Persons with Disabilities
http://apd.myflorida.com/
Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities

Florida Division of Blind Services
http://dbs.myflorida.com/

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