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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2016-12-14 | 5 | for that. I printed quite a nice handout from FEMA and it's particularly helpful for your community. We can make more copies and get them from the website. This is specifically for the functional needs community, it's a little bit of a list. It's got some other tips and the one thing that was really quite interesting to me as I read through on the second page towards the bottom is the thing on managing finances if you're getting social security checks or anything else to make it really easy SO that you don't lose your income if we have a disaster and you can't get to the bank or do your regular banking. It's got some really informative tips. It does mention a registry program that I mentioned that has not taken flight in Alameda. But we're open. If you have ideas or suggestions, we're open. Sharon Oliver: I think that what we're really encouraging though is your partnership in planning and getting some training to the community that meets your needs. You're, of course, all welcome to come to our CERT training regardless of whether you think that you're ready to go out in your neighborhood. I think you would get a lot out of it. And we tailor it to anybody in the class. It's open to everyone, so you're welcome to come to that. We have not set up our schedule for 2017 yet, but we teach a 21-hour course four times during the year, so there's a lot of opportunity to take it. And it's free, and we love free. And that's paid for through grant funding that we get regularly every year. Elizabeth Kenny: Sharon, will you state again what CERT stands for? Sharon Oliver: Community Emergency Response Team. That's a FEMA program, so it's nationwide. You're welcome to come, and I would welcome you into the class. That's pretty much it for me. I'm open for questions, comments, whatever you'd like. Elizabeth Kenny: I'm going to start with the commission questions, and then we'll go to the public questions. Thank you for being here tonight. I've seen the efforts before of trying to create the registry, and we do have to come up with something different. Is there any centralized point, say, where people with disabilities, if an emergency happens, could come and receive assistance? If I have medicine that needs to be refrigerated and I've lost power, or something along those lines, where I could come and get services from the city? Sharon Oliver: We don't have an exact location cause sometimes depending on the incident, the planned place winds up not working for us, and we'll have to move it. But usually with the refrigeration issue, we try to get ice coming in as soon as possible SO that you can keep medicines cool. If you have something that requires power, we do have some portable generators in the fire department. And if you had to leave your home because we couldn't manage that, you would be a high priority to move to another facility. We do have a robust amount of assisted living and care facilities within Alameda and the Alameda Health Care System, which is Alameda Hospital and a few others, they're in a whole network, and they have a very robust plan for taking in surge or having to move people, not to the hospital, but to someplace where care can be provided. I believe a good number of those locations have back-up generators, so refrigeration and power and things like that is there. Sharon Oliver: The biggest thing is letting us know that there's an issue, and that's why we tried to do the registry so that we could have a way to check. In fact we were going to use our CERT volunteers with background checks to partner with people who needed welfare checks. We thought that was a good option, but it just didn't fly. But yes, it's definitely a high priority, anybody who has a need like that. Elizabeth Kenny: The other question I had was again medication focused. I understand that Alameda has to be prepared to be cut off for a while because we're an island, and I get my medication from Oakland. Are there programs in place where I would be able to get my medication in Alameda during that time? | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2016-12-14.pdf |