| Description: | This interim guide, jointly developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, outlines how involving special needs populations in planning enables emergency managers to address the function-based needs of individuals. The guide explicitly addresses the needs of culturally diverse, non-English speaking, and limited English proficient (LEP) populations and strategies to integrate them into emergency communication, evacuation, and recovery plans. CPG-301 will remain an interim document while feedback on field experience with this guide is sought from emergency managers in 2008. |