Do you work with people with disability?

Do you have a business continuity plan to continue delivering your services in times of disaster?

Southern Downs Regional Council hosted a workshop, led by the Community Services Industry Alliance, to help businesses get ready for the next natural disaster. The session was recorded and can be watched here:

Co-design your business continuity plan with people with disability.
Learn and use methods and tools that work

This Business Continuity Planning workshop was part of a series of disaster preparedness sessions for people with disability in the Southern Downs.

Learn what your clients need to know. Watch the other two sessions on Person-Centered Emergency Preparedness (P-CEP) HERE.

The P-CEP program includes a workbook for everyone in the Southern Downs with a disability, plus resources for you as a carer. 

To receive hard copy P-CEP resources for you and your clients, contact us HERE.

People with disability are the experts in their lives and emergency planning needs to start with them.

This video shares how the four P-CEP steps guide personal emergency planning in partnership with people with disability. Enablement strategies at each P-CEP step are used to match emergency planning to the supports people need for their health and safety in emergencies. P-CEP contributes to disability inclusive emergency planning at the community level by removing gaps through collaborative action.

The P-CEP program includes a workbook for everyone in the Southern Downs with a disability, plus resources for you as a carer. 

To receive hard copy P-CEP resources for you and your clients, contact us HERE.

Southern Downs Forum

Being prepared and having a plan for disasters and emergencies is important for each of us individually, and as a community. We know this is especially important for people with disability and people with additional needs to minimise risks and save lives.
To do this we all have a role and a part to play - people with disability, community members, Government, Council, disability and community organisations and emergency services.

Come along to this two day community event to work together to build a more inclusive disaster resilient Southern Downs. This is the first in a series of three forums over two years. Together we will develop the inclusive strategies, actions and plans that will help us to act before, during and after a disaster to include people with disability and others in our community.

Who should come?

People with disability and supporters, disability and community services, emergency services, local government and interested community members.

Date: 15 & 16 September 2022
Time: 9.30am to 2.30pm
Where: Churches of Christ, 223 Dragon Street, Warwick
Register here: www.bit.ly/southerndownsevent 
For more information contact QDN on 1300 363 783 or email didrr@qdn.org.au

Learn more about the BIDRC Project here

From January 2022 the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators included a new practice standard on Emergency and Disaster Management.

This standard is intended to address the planning required by providers to prepare, prevent, manage and respond to emergency and disaster situations whilst mitigating risks to and ensuring continuity of supports that are critical to the health, safety and wellbeing of NDIS participants. It appears in Schedule 1 – Core Module, Part 3 – Provider governance and operational management, of the NDIS Practice Standards.

Read more HERE.

Council's Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness (P-CEP) program is here to help you prepare your clients. 

To receive advance alerts during disasters, and be kept informed of free training - Request to join the Carers Get Ready Group