SeededGround, the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies & June Kailes recently released The Roadmap: Making Transit Evacuations Real for People with Disabilities!
Buckle up, the Roadmap boldly positions people with disabilities in the driver seat! Throughout this new informative resource, you will discover creative emergency approaches and eyewitness accounts from some of the nation’s leading thinkers, attorneys, advocates and researchers. The Roadmap is for anyone ready to explore new routes for equitable evacuations. It is written in honor of the progress people with disabilities have led and in hope of the dignified future we all deserve.
The Roadmap includes a clear view of the current landscape of inclusive evacuations. It reviews current data concerns and assesses pervasive problems peppered throughout evacuation plans/practices. Readers will find extensive examples from Think Tank attendees regarding considerations that are consistently absent or insufficient within emergency evacuation plans.
Click here to download an accessible PDF of the roadmap.