Operating a shelter
Shelter operations involve all procedures for opening the physical shelter to demobilizing and closing the shelter.
1. Sample forms
- Sample registration formthat includes a guest functional needs assessment
- Sample one day menu that takes into account various dietary restrictions such as reduced sodium and pureed food
- Sample discharge form that assesses in home services/support prior to evacuation
2. Best practices and lessons learned
- Tips for effective communications with people who have mobility impairments; use crutches, canes, or other mobility devices; have a mental illness; have a speech impairment; are blind or visually impaired; are deaf or hard of hearing; are deafblind; have autism; or have a cognitive or intellectual disability
- Ready or Not? Evacuation and Sheltering Following Superstorm Sandy
- Recorded webinar of lessons learned and best practices in planning, management and operation of evacuation and sheltering, and the integration of the Nassau County Department of Health within the local, State, and Federal emergency response systems due to Superstorm Sandy
- Recorded webinar of lessons learned and best practices in planning, management and operation of evacuation and sheltering, and the integration of the Nassau County Department of Health within the local, State, and Federal emergency response systems due to Superstorm Sandy
3. Tools
- Breakdown of communication tools into high tech and low tech categories
- Hands-on Show Me tool created by the Emergency Preparedness Bureau to reduce communication barriers and better assist individuals with access and functional needs
- Shelter signage with pictures, courtesy of Massachusetts Emergency Preparedness Region 4b
- Series of just in time disaster training videos produced by the Medical Reserve Corps of Greater Kansas City on functional needs support services (FNSS) shelter operations
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