Triage Danger, Evacuation, Shelter, and Missing-Person Events

To triage immediate danger, evacuation, shelter, and missing-person events, predeclare observable triggers and qualified routes. Fire, severe injury, breathing difficulty, floodwater, hazardous materials, evacuation orders, shelter instructions, power loss affecting essential equipment, a missing person, and inaccessible emergency communication require different actions. Protect Cora first, preserve AAC and mobility, follow official instructions, and document without delaying 911 or another immediate response.

Define Cora's page-specific preparedness decision

To triage immediate danger, evacuation, shelter, and missing-person events, define the person, hazard, location, official source, alert, action, communication, health and equipment needs, supporter, release gate, stop rule, backup, and recovery outcome. Predeclare who calls 911, follows evacuation or shelter instructions, contacts emergency management, protects essential equipment, shares needed information, starts the missing-person plan, or supports Cora after the event.

Protect Cora's essential access and live response

Cora's plan keeps AAC, mobility, prescribed care, emergency help, hydration, bathroom access, essential devices, service-animal support, privacy, and lawful withdrawal from nonemergency drills protected. The emergency triage and handoff matrix cannot create emergency, responder, medical, pharmacy, utility, transport, shelter, facility, or legal authority.

Build Cora's emergency triage and handoff matrix

Create one versioned record for home, community, transport, work, and shelter environments. Include Cora's hazards, official sources, alerts, communication, health, medication, mobility, devices, power, routes, transportation, shelters, supporters, kits, service animals, privacy, drills, incidents, recovery, expirations, missingness, and review. Use a trigger-to-action matrix with person, location, hazard, official instruction, immediate protection, responder, authority, communication backup, equipment, route, clock, evidence, and handoff.

Validate Cora's counts and denominators

Reproduce ten supporters times ten actions equals 100, with 83 initial passes, 96 after rehearsal, and four named open actions.

Connect Cora's evidence to a bounded action

The coordinator withholds only affected assignments, repairs the four routes, and verifies them with the responsible systems. Routine clinical approval never delays immediate protective action.

Work through Cora's example

Ten supporters complete ten tabletop decisions each, producing 100 scored actions. Eighty-three pass initially. After focused rehearsal, 96 pass. Four remain open: one power-dependent equipment route, one missing-person contact path, one shelter-access handoff, and one inaccessible-alert escalation. Preserve every planned, held, current, eligible, tested, completed, messaged, and reviewed unit with the hazard, location, source version, ordinary support, person response, partner action, restriction, incident, and endpoint. This fictional example supplies no official instruction, medical clearance, legal conclusion, real-event safety, treatment effect, or promised outcome.

Address Cora's main interpretation risk

Ninety-six of 100 measures tabletop decisions. It cannot prove responder arrival, evacuation, shelter access, equipment continuity, missing-person recovery, or live performance. Four open actions remain holds. Review official sources, access, health, equipment, power, transport, shelter, communication, supporter behavior, instruction, restrictions, person priorities, incidents, recovery, missingness, and design strength separately.

Set Cora's ABA scope and emergency boundaries

Cora's emergency triage and handoff matrix uses the CASP public summary only for high-level ABA behavioral-health-treatment scope for autistic people. The current BACB Ethics Code addresses competence, collaboration, consent and assent when applicable, assessment, risk, documentation, and evaluation for covered people. Emergency-management, responder, medical, pharmacy, equipment, utility, transport, shelter, facility, privacy, and legal authority remain with qualified owners.

Build Cora's plan around disability-specific daily needs

A Ready.gov disability-preparedness flyer highlights food, water, medication and medical supplies, communication needs, assistive-device evacuation, transportation, insurance copies, provider contacts, and responder-needed information. Cora's emergency triage and handoff matrix converts those categories into person-specific questions and owners without promising quantities, availability, replacement, or access during a particular emergency.

Treat supporter planning as assigned work for Cora

The Ready.gov caregiver guide includes communication preferences, assistive-technology details, visual schedules, backup transportation, support-team responsibilities, medication and pharmacy information, AAC, chargers, documents, and clothing. It is preparedness guidance, not permission for a supporter to access every record, administer medication, control movement, or make Cora's decisions.

Keep Cora's kit tied to current needs and expirations

CDC emergency-kit guidance for people with disabilities identifies medical supplies and important health documents as kit considerations. The emergency triage and handoff matrix adds item owner, quantity source, storage, access, expiration, replacement, temperature or power need, portability, and privacy. A checklist cannot guarantee that an item is clinically appropriate or available during an event.

Use accessible weather information for Cora

The National Weather Service materials for people with intellectual disabilities provide symbol-supported resources for heat, floods, tornadoes, lightning, cold, and wildfire. They are hazard education, not live local warnings or individualized clinical instructions. Cora's team pairs accessible teaching materials with current official alerts and the exact protective action for that location.

Keep fire escape planning specific to Cora's setting

The U.S. Fire Administration disability escape-plan collection offers current outreach materials about alarms, evacuation needs, fire-department discussion, building drills, service animals, and home plans. It does not approve Cora's route or authorize unsafe rehearsal. Qualified facility and fire-safety owners verify the actual setting, alarm, route, assistance, and drill.

Separate public emergency-system access from clinical skill for Cora

DOJ emergency-planning guidance describes Title II duties for accessible alerts, evacuation and transportation, shelters, modifications, and communication by state and local governments. It also recognizes that needs differ by person and event. Cora's access request goes to the responsible public entity; a clinical score cannot decide compliance or replace that duty.

Put 911 and official instructions ahead of Cora's data

The National 911 Program says an emergency requiring immediate police, fire, or ambulance assistance belongs with 911 and call-takers may provide instructions. Local systems differ, and this source is U.S.-specific. Cora's supporters follow responders instead of finishing a drill, photograph, percentage, or routine approval first.

Preserve Cora's AAC during every emergency stage

The ASHA AAC portal says AAC users should always have access to their communication tools or devices. Cora's primary system and tested backup stay available during alerts, protective action, travel, shelter, health communication, reunification, and recovery. A supporter may facilitate access without inventing Cora's location, symptoms, consent, choice, correction, or incident account.

Use broad preparedness guidance as a framework for Cora

Ready.gov's citizen-preparedness guide covers communication plans, meeting places, evacuation, documents, property, supplies, and practice. Hazards, official instructions, infrastructure, and personal needs change. Cora's emergency triage and handoff matrix therefore keeps a source date, hazard and location scope, responsible owner, test result, expiration, and reopen trigger for every critical element.

Choose Cora's next review trigger

Retrain after a hazard, location, alert channel, route, shelter, power system, health need, supporter roster, official protocol, incident, or Cora communication change. Record the qualified owner, official source, effective date, hazard and location, alert and route version, health and equipment state, communication arrangement, test result, accessible explanation, emergency boundary, complaint route, and reassessment date.

Close Cora's preparedness plan

Review the emergency triage and handoff matrix with Cora, the qualified behavior analyst, chosen or authorized supporters as applicable, and specialists named in the manifest. Confirm that official response, health and medication, equipment and power, transport and shelter, accessibility, communication, assessment, teaching, restrictions, incidents, and recovery remain separate; every denominator is reproducible; AAC, mobility, privacy, essential care, emergency help, and withdrawal from nonemergency drills remain protected; and conclusions stay bounded to tested conditions. Keep this page draft and noindex until every required review is complete.

How to Triage Immediate Danger, Evacuation, Shelter, and Missing-Person Events