BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T010623Z UID:030afba3-d99e-4445-8e71-04f8a8c2a661 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180523T000000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180525T000000 DESCRIPTION:Date/Time: May 23\, 2018 8:00 pm to May 25\, 2018 5:00 pm\n\ nLocation: Marriott Metro Center Washington\, DC.\n\nDescription: The f ocus of Getting it Right is on expanding a shared commitment to achieving and maintaining disability inclusive whole community emergency preparednes s\, community resilience\, response\, recovery and mitigation before\, dur ing and after disasters.\n\n\n \n Building capacity\, relationships and sk ills to meet the access and functional needs of the whole community\n \n \ n Sharing promising and good practices for achieving and maintaining acces sibility and inclusion before\, during and after disasters\n \n \n Finding resources to meet the needs of your community\n \n \n Moving from words i nto actions\, measuring progress and results\n \n\n\nWhy do we need to GET IT RIGHT?\n\nThe past year has been a time of devastating community and e conomic impacts due to disasters around the world. In the U.S.\, there wer e at least 16 billion-dollar catastrophic disasters and hundreds of lives lost. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NO AA)\, the cumulative cost of these disasters is already more than $306.2 b illion dollars\, which shattered the previous U.S. annual record cost of $ 214.8 billion dollars established in 2005 due to the impacts of Hurricanes Dennis\, Katrina\, Rita and Wilma. Of the people who lost their lives or sustained serious injuries\, people with disabilities and older adults con tinue to be impacted at disproportionately high rates. Disability inclusiv e emergency preparedness is imperative to whole community readiness and re silience.\n\nWe can\, and we must GET IT RIGHT!\n\nOur Getting It Right co nferences bring together leading inclusive emergency and disaster experts\ , disability leaders\, emergency managers\, planners\, federal\, tribal\, territorial\, state and local government\, elected officials\, public heal th and public safety experts\, faith leaders\, business and industry and h igher education leaders who want to learn more about how to improve readin ess and recovery for individuals\, families\, communities and businesses. The focus of Getting It Right is on expanding our shared commitment to ach ieving and sustaining disability inclusive whole community emergency prepa redness\, community resilience\, response\, recovery and mitigation before \, during\, and after disasters.\n\nWhat is the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies?\n\nThe Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies (the Partnership) is a national coalition of thousands of individuals and organizations with a shared mission. We are committed to increasing indivi dual and community capacity for equal access and full inclusion of people with access and functional needs for optimal whole community emergency pre paredness\, support when disaster strikes and community engagement through out disaster recovery to build back better and truly improve safety and co mmunity resilience for all.\n\nSince hurricane Harvey made landfall in Aug ust\, the Partnership and conference sponsor\, Portlight Strategies have b een leading local and national response\, relief and recovery initiatives. We have been working around the clock to meet the access and functional n eeds of children and adults with disabilities\, older adults and many othe rs impacted by hurricanes Harvey\, Irma\, and Maria\, as well as the devas tating wildfires in northern and southern California.\n\nWhy should I atte nd GETTING IT RIGHT 2018?\n\nHere are some reasons to attend the Getting I t Right 2018 National Inclusive Disaster Strategies Conference:\n\n\n \n L earn about promising whole community emergency management practices\, solu tions for complying with laws and regulations\, achieving and sustaining i ndividual\, family\, community and business readiness\, community resilien ce\, optimizing disaster recovery and finding the funds to get it right.\n \n \n Learn more about inclusive disaster strategies. Conference session topics will address community engagement\, physical and communication acce ssibility\, exercises\, registries\, emergency alerts\, evacuation\, healt h maintenance\, medical equipment and assistive devices\, sheltering and h ousing\, accommodating access and functional needs\, media\, universal des ign\, laws and rights\, including federal\, tribal\, territorial\, state a nd local emergency programs.\n \n \n Visit the exhibit hall to gather info rmation from companies and organizations working on emergency and disaster strategies\, while networking with current and future inclusive emergency management leaders and key decision-makers.\n \n \n Exchange promising pr actices with other whole community inclusion experts\, creating stronger\, bolder and more effective solutions for the future.\n \n\n\nIndividuals a nd organization interested in sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are encouraged to contact Michael Decker at development@disasterstrategies.or g.\n\nAmerican Sign Language interpreters and Computer-Aided Realtime Tran scription (CART) will be provided. Attendees who require other accommodati ons are asked to email Jessica Justus at Jessica@disasterstrategies.org  with “disability accommodation” in the message subject heading. Jessic a Justus can also answer your conference-related questions.\n\nRegistratio n\n\n\n \n Registration is now open\n \n \n The early-bird registration pr ice\, available until March 31\, is $200. After March 31\, registration fo r the 3-day meeting will be $295.\n \n \n To register please click here\n \n \n A limited number of scholarships are available.\n \n\n SUMMARY:Getting It Right 2018 National Inclusive Disaster Strategies Confer ence BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER:-P6D SUMMARY:Alarm notification END:VALARM BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER:-P SUMMARY:Alarm notification END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR