{"id":54995,"date":"2022-12-02T10:20:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54995"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T23:22:29","slug":"fema-summit-seeks-to-address-top-civil-rights-issues-in-emergency-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54995","title":{"rendered":"FEMA summit seeks to address top civil rights issues in emergency management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its third annual Civil Rights Summit this week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency met with representatives from a group of diverse organizations to determine how the organization can better address inequities in its work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Members from FEMA joined representatives from Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an organization advocating for civil rights for Asian Americans, and the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that focuses on ending suicide among LGBTQ+ identifying youth, to discuss housing inequities, patterns of discrimination and the disenfranchisement and vulnerabilities of underserved communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Minority communities tend to be less prepared for disasters and therefore experience greater impact when disaster strikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its third annual Civil Rights&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54996,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54995\/revisions\/54996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}