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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-10-11 | 4 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, October 11, 2017 6:30 p.m. Jan Garrett: And we are also in a leadership role, with regard to the ADA National Network, in working on emergency preparedness issues, which I know is of interest to many of you. And so, we have done a number of webinars, actually, since 2012. We have many webinars that are now archived on the website. And we do one pretty much every month. Sometimes there are months that we skip, but most of the time we're doing some sort of emergency preparedness and inclusion of people with disabilities webinar. And we have people from FEMA on those webinars. We have people from the International Code Council. We have people from other states describing what best practices they've used in emergency preparedness, in a variety of ways, with regard to people with disabilities and inclusion. So there are many, many different topics on those webinars that are available, and they're free, and they're always on the second Thursday of the month at 11:30 AM, Pacific Time. Jan Garrett: So you're welcome to sign up. You do have to pre-register, but you don't have to pay anything. You just have to put in your email, and then we'll send you an email confirming that you've registered, and then you can sign in when the time comes because we send you a link. And we use Blackboard Collaborate to do the webinars because we found that it's the most accessible webinar system that's out there that we have found. So we do encourage you to listen to the webinars. We also encourage you to go to our website under the emergency preparedness section, and there are many materials there as well, that you might find useful, that you can download. And if there's ever any technical assistance that we can give you about emergency preparedness, we're also happy to do that. So that's And the other piece that we do a lot of is training, so we do it through webinars but we also do in-person training. And we do our conference pretty much every year. So that's something that we do for lots of different people, lots of different groups, that's available. So before I move away, are there any questions that people may have about the ADA Center, and what we do, and how we can help you? Beth Kenny: I have some questions. So first, I want to know what the webinars Are they archived so that we can go back and watch old ones? Jan Garrett: They are, they're archived all the way back to the first ones from 2012. Beth Kenny: And so you work with the state laws and the federal laws, which is amazing. Do you work in conjunction with any of the state or federal organizations like the EEOC or Department of Fair Employment and Housing? Jan Garrett: Well, we definitely partner with them, and we partner with many of them to present at our conferences, but also, the advantage of the ADA National Network across the country is that we receive direct training from the EEOC, the Department of Justice, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Education, so the Federal Agencies give us direct training. And so we often know things a little bit early, and that's helpful for us in terms of giving technical assistance and training. And we have direct contacts with those agencies. Now, we don't really give out direct contacts, but it means that we can call them directly and get a specific opinion from them about a particularly grey area that someone may have called us about. So we work directly with them. And we do have some contacts at the state level as well, that we can call and get more of an opinion on difficult, challenging questions. 12/13/17 Page 4 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-10-11.pdf |