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Collaborative effort.
Collaborative effort.
Prepare, respond and recover.
Prepare, respond and recover.
The Uinta County Community Preparedness Coalition is a collaborative effort that aims to promote community resilience in the face of public health emergencies, such as pandemics and disasters.
The Uinta County Community Preparedness Coalition is a collaborative effort that aims to promote community resilience in the face of public health emergencies, such as pandemics and disasters.
What is Community Resilience?
What is Community Resilience?
Community resilience is the capacity of the community as a whole to prepare for, respond to, and recover from adverse events and unanticipated crises that threaten the health of all. Achieving community resilience means involving the full range of community-based organizations and agencies in preparedness, response, and recovery planning activities, and broadening the understanding of disaster preparedness to include community health and well-being.
Community resilience is about transforming disaster planning and response from just "me" to include "we."
Individual Resilience
Individual Resilience
Emergency kits
Emergency plans
Individual education and training
Individual stockpiles
Individual/household-oriented messages
Community Resilience
Community Resilience
Assessing and addressing community vulnerabilities
Developing community partnerships
Community training, education, and engagement
Community preparedness networks/social connections
Source: Chandra et al, 2011, RAND
Levers of Community Resilience
Levers of Community Resilience
The RAND Corporation identified eight "levers," or means of achieving community resilience. Activities related to these eight levers help move a community closer to achieving community resilience through an ongoing process.
Wellness and access contribute to the development of the social and economic well-being of a community and the physical and psychological health of the population.
Specifically following a disaster, education can be used to improve effective risk communication, engagement and community self-sufficiency build social connectedness, and partnerships ensure governmental and nongovernmental organizations are integrated.
Quality and efficiency are ongoing levers that cut across all levers and core components of community resilience; considerations about quality monitoring and resource efficiency are essential in developing local community resilience-building plans.
Guiding Principles
Guiding Principles
With the guiding principles of connecting public health emergency preparedness with other routine community public health activities, and embedding whole community engagement into the project, the LACCDR project tests four of RAND's eight community resilience levers.
How resilient is your community during disasters?
The Community Disaster Resilience Tool (CDRT) helps you find out—and take action.
CDRT combines public health data and social vulnerability insights to help emergency planners and community leaders better protect their populations.
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