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The Gathering Disability Integration and Federal Funding Opportunities
15 January 2013
Janice P. Barlow
FEMA Region III, Director, Grants Division
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Federal Funding Opportunities
State Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSP)
Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI)
Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS)
Citizen Corps Program (CCP)
Tribal Homeland Security Grant Program (THSGP)
Emergency Management Performance Grant Program (EMPG)
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Federal Funding Opportunities
Allowable Costs:
Planning efforts
Purchasing of Equipment
Purchasing of Supplies
Exercises/Drills
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Federal Funding Opportunities
Examples are:
Inclusive Meeting Practices:
Providing Sign Language interpreters
Computer Aided Real Time Translation (CART)
Materials in alternate formats General population Shelter planning:
Investments in training, equipment, supplies to meet access and functional needs
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Federal Funding Opportunities
Examples of efforts in planning and response:
Development of tools and resources by experts in disability inclusive practices
Purchase of tools for gap analysis and tracking of resources needed to support access and functional needs
Training for disability and other community groups, planners and emergency managers
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Federal Funding Opportunities
Examples (cont.)
Studies and analysis of potential shelter locations for access compliance Support of accessible Emergency Alerts:
Closed Captioning
Visual and audible notification
Motion/vibration alerts
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Federal Funding Opportunities
Other Examples for planning and response:
Development of inclusive community preparedness programs
Training programs to increase skills and abilities of residents with disabilities as neighborhood leaders
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Federal Funding Opportunities
Almost all funding in the form of sub-grants through your state SAAs
Must work to lobby your state partners to make access and functional needs a funding priority
Authority to approve such expenditures:
Information Bulletin #361
Allowable Equipment list
Waiver approval through your FEMA Program Analyst
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Federal Funding Opportunities
State Contacts:
Delaware: Delaware Emergency Management Agency,
James E. Turner, [email protected], (302)-659-2240
District of Columbia: DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, Christopher Geldart, [email protected], (202)- 481-3180
Maryland: Maryland Emergency Management Agency,
Kenneth Mallette, [email protected],
(410)-517-3625 443
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Federal Funding Opportunities
State Contacts:
Pennsylvania: PA Emergency Management Agency,
Glenn L. Cannon, [email protected], (717)-651-2007
Virginia: VA Department of Emergency Management, Michael Cline, [email protected],
(804)-897-6500, ext. 6502
West Virginia: WV Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, Jimmy Gianato, [email protected], (304) 558-5380 OR WV Department of Military Affairs and public Safety, David Hoge, [email protected], (304) 558-2930
