Topeka ? Several new resources are being implemented in Kansas to help first responders and emergency personnel help people with disabilities.

The Kansas Division of Emergency Management has developed what it calls the Kansas Vulnerable Needs Planning System. The Internet-based system is intended to improve coordination among all responders.

On the website — www.helpmekansas.org — individuals, volunteers and facilities can register with the state. The registrations will create a database of people with special needs, their places of residence and volunteers willing to help help them.

Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting, state director of emergency management, says it’s important to make sure that people with special needs are accounted for in disasters.