Dawn Bailey, a family engagement specialist and advocate for children with complex medical needs, discusses the challenges of disaster preparedness for families like hers. Dawn shares her personal journey caring for her daughter who has significant medical requirements, emphasizing the inadequacy of standard disaster preparedness checklists for families with unique needs. Dawn highlights the need for policy changes and encourages families to continually voice their challenges to improve support systems.
Dawn is a mom of a daughter born with complex medical, cognitive, and physical conditions due to a rare genetic chromosomal abnormality, who had to navigate complicated and fragmented systems of care for over 19 years. As a result, Dawn has been committed to helping to improve the landscape of health systems and how they serve families and the community by sharing her lived expertise to improve care, programs, processes, data analysis, funding, and reimbursement models.
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