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Community Resilience Toolkits

Toolkits

Building Older Adults' Resilience by Bridging Public Health and Aging-in-Place Efforts: Toolkit

Jan 23, 2018

This toolkit contains information and activities that can bring together those involved in aging-in-place support and those involved in disaster resilience efforts to improve the resilience of older adults to natural and human-caused disasters.

Joie D. Acosta, Regina A. Shih, Emily K. Chen, Lea Xenakis, Eric G. Carbone, Lane F. Burgette, Anita Chandra
ENGAGED Toolkit: Improving the Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Disaster Response and Recovery

Apr 18, 2016

The toolkit assists public health and emergency planners and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) stakeholders in determining the capacity and capability of particular NGOs for disaster response and recovery.

Joie D. Acosta, Anita Chandra, Vivian L. Towe, Yandong Zhao, Yangxu Lu
Partnerships for Recovery Across The Sectors (PRACTIS) Toolkit

Sep 15, 2015

The Partnerships for Recovery Across The Sectors (PRACTIS) toolkit employs a survey, a quality improvement guide, and a recovery exercise to strengthen disaster recovery partnerships between local health departments and community-based organizations.

Joie D. Acosta, Anita Chandra, Lea Xenakis, Danielle M. Varda, Monika Eros-Sarnyai, David Eisenman, Ingrid Gonzalez, Jaime Gutierrez, Deborah C. Glik, Sara Sprong
Community Resilience: Learn and Tell Toolkit

Apr 22, 2015

This toolkit is intended to teach people about community resilience so that they can then teach others. It has information and exercises, which individuals and organizations can use to communicate with their staff and service populations.

Vivian L. Towe, Anita Chandra, Joie D. Acosta, Ramya Chari, Lori Uscher-Pines, Clarissa Sellers
The Hungrier Games: Disaster Resilience Skills for Youth

Apr 22, 2015

This guide contains an introduction to the key principles of community resilience. It is intended for high school youth (ages 14--18). The introduction is presented through youth-friendly talking points and the use of a scavenger hunt game.

Joie D. Acosta, Vivian L. Towe, Ramya Chari, Lori Uscher-Pines, Clarissa Sellers, Anita Chandra

Trainings

Multimedia
Building Resilient Communities: An Online Training
This easy-to-use, self-guided online training shows organizations and communities how to strengthen their resilience, helping them recover and learn from disaster—both natural and man-made.
Aug 13, 2013

Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project

The Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience (LACCDR) project has developed a variety of tools and resources related to community resilience:

Resilience Builder Toolkit (PDF)
Resilience Builder is a community toolkit that builds upon existing resources in your community to strengthen resilience. It is presented in six sections and offers strategies to increase resilience.
Community Resilience Workplan (PDF)
Many people want to know: What is the difference between building preparedness and building community resilience? For the third pilot year of the project, the LACCDR team has put together a list of questions, strategies and resources that can help guide organizations and communities towards building resilience efforts as they plan out their activities.
CR'ness Measures (PDF)
These measures help to determine the level of community resilience building in an organization's or community's workplan. Items that are not currently present in the workplan point to areas of growth and possible next steps for the group to consider.