Video Series: Preparedness and Disability Integration
People living with disabilities have faced unique challenges throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including barriers to accessing the COVID-19 vaccine. By learning about physical and digital accessibility, vaccine confidence, and community partnership building, health agencies can increase capacity to support people with disabilities during emergency response and vaccine distribution.
Each video in this series focuses on a unique topic and features stories exploring the critical need for engagement of disability stakeholders and disability-led organizations as equity partners and methods to build capacity through this critical resource.
Disability Etiquette Competence and Inclusion Training
This training covers basic disability awareness and etiquette for including and assisting people with disabilities in public health programs on a day-to-day basis and during public health emergencies.
Public Health Emergency Management Toolkit With WID
This training walks through the purpose of the ASTHO/WID Public Health Emergency Planning Toolkit, its use, and its application to emergency planning that ensures public health emergency planning process and plans are universally inclusive and eliminate systemic barriers whenever possible. The training will focus on achieving whole community inclusion in alignment with the Public Health Emergency Preparedness requirements.
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