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Guide to Establishing and Sustaining a Special Needs Advisory Panel in Illinois

Learn how to create and maintain a Special Needs Advisory Panel (SNAP) in Illinois. Discover the importance of SNAPs in bringing stakeholders together, setting priorities, coordinating resources, identifying community needs, and improving preparedness. Get insights on how Illinois SNAPs function, their implementation process, success factors, suggested projects, and ways to engage local health and human service leaders. Empower your community to enhance emergency preparedness with expert advice from John A. Muller, Ph.D.

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Guide to Establishing and Sustaining a Special Needs Advisory Panel in Illinois

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  1. Starting and Sustaining a Special Needs Advisory Panel:The Illinois Experience September 29, 2009 Presenter John A. Muller, Ph.D.

  2. What Is a SNAP? • Explanation needed? • A SNAP can . . . • Bring together diverse stakeholders • Help set priorities • Identify and coordinate resources • Identify the needs of people in the community • Enhance and strengthen preparedness and response

  3. “Don’t plan about us without us.”

  4. Illinois’ SNAPs Today • Organizational context • Number, location, etc. • How they function: leaders & member & meetings • What they do ~ and want to do, i.e. results, plans and goals

  5. How SNAPs Got Started • Implementation training • Local jurisdiction partnerships • Mini-grants • Local priorities

  6. Success Factors • State Level • Agency support & funding • Neutral coordinating body • Inclusive advisory group • Subject matter experts • County Level • LHD credibility • EMA cooperation • Champions • Participants: agencies and individuals • Regrettable experiences

  7. Illinois Counties with Advisory Panels

  8. A Few Suggestions • Small ad hoc steering committee • Emergency management buy-in • Local issue/problem identification • Engage local health & human service leaders • Functional needs definition • Tackle ONLY an achievable project at first • Aim for institutionalization

  9. Projects to Consider • Information sharing: EMA plans, SN concerns • Family/individual preparedness • First responder training • Standard client information form • “List of lists” for EOC support • Particular issue: oxygen, battery charging, dialysis • HHS support for ARC shelter

  10. Questions? Comments? The path is the goal. Thank You! John A. Muller, Ph.D. Management Communications Illinois Public Health Association 1520 Denison Drive 223 South Third Street Springfield, IL 62704 Springfield, IL 62701 217-725-7880 217-522-5687 jmuller124@gmail.comjmuller@ipha.com

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