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June Isaacson Kailes has a Disability Policy Consulting practice and is the Associate Director, Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California. June, since the early 1980s, is one of just a handful of people with disabilities who focuses a portion of her time on disability and aging related emergency. She works on emergency issues nationally and internationally, with community based organizations and with emergency professionals. Her work as a writer, trainer, researcher, policy analyst and advocate is widely know and respected. 

June’s is currently working with two California departments: Social Service on a “People with disabilities and the Elderly Sheltering Plan” and Developmental Disabilities on an Emergency Preparedness Needs Analysis. She recently co-chaired The United States Department of Homeland Security’s working group on Functional and Medical Support Sheltering (FMSS) Target Capabilities List. 

Several of her emergency preparedness publications include:

• Emergency Preparedness: Taking Responsibility For Your Safety - Tips for People with Activity Limitations and Disabilities, written for and distributed by Los Angeles County, Office of Emergency Management, Emergency Survival Program,
• Living and Lasting on Shaky Ground: An Earthquake Preparedness Guide for People with Disabilities, distributed by California Office of Emergency Safety,
• Creating a Disaster - Resistant Infrastructure for People at Risk Including People with Disabilities (published and used in several countries),
• Emergency Evacuation Preparedness: Taking Responsibility for Your Safety A Guide For People with Disabilities and Other Activity Limitations, available at http://www.cdihp.org/evacuationpdf.htm.

She held many offices on the boards of the National Council of Independent Living and the California Foundation of Independent Living Centers and served as the Executive Director of the Westside Center for Independent Living in Los Angeles. President Clinton appointed June to the United States Access Board where she served eight years. To learn more about June, visit www.jik.com.

Contact Information

June Isaacson Kailes
Disability Policy Consultant
Phone 310.821.7080
Fax 310.827.0269
jik@pacbell.net