Community health resilience

Tip: Invite your community health colleagues (both from within your system and outside of your system) to join you in the cohort.

Pre-reads

• Community-driven climate resilience planning: A framework (National Association of Climate Resilience Planners)

• Community engagement primer for health professionals (Emerald Cities Collaborative) 

• Partnering for resilience: A practical guide to Community-based disaster planning (Health Care Without Harm) 

Discussion questions

1. What strategies do you use to engage with, build relationships with, and understand needs and assets of community members and community organizations?

2. What opportunities exist to collaborate with providers, community members, community organizations, and government agencies to build community health and resilience?

3. How does your organization see its responsibility for community care in the face of an extreme weather event, and how might this show up in a climate resilience plan?  

Key dates

Sept 28-Oct 10: Draft (or amend) community health resilience plan

Oct 11: Exchange draft community health resilience plan with peer

Oct 25: Provide feedback on peer’s draft community health resilience plan

Oct 26-31: Revise community health resilience plan 

Resources from session

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