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Feeling Safe, Being Safe

If you have an intellectual or cognitive disability, or if you are a person with autism spectrum disorder, you may want to work on your plan using the worksheet titled FEELING SAFE, BEING SAFE: My Personal Safety in an EMERGENCY. to download the PDF for printing, go to this link: https://www.dds.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CC_FSBSBooklet_20190319.pdf.

The worksheet will guide you through clear steps of preparation:

  • Get all the information you need: Personal, health and medical information, things that you use such as hearing aids, and communication issues such as the best way which first responders can talk to you and assist you.
  • Put your emergency kit together: A backpack or bag with your name on it and several supply items like water, food, medications, and many more things.
  • Complete the worksheet: Which includes a list of people to contact in case of emergency.

PRACTICE TELLING people about your PERSONAL NEEDS. KEEP YOUR EMERGENCY KIT in a place EASY TO FIND.

An important thing to do in order to be ready for an emergency is clear pathways to enter and leave the home easily, and to keep windows and door areas free of clutter.

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