Community Resilience Toolkits

Toolkits

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  Building Older Adults' Resilience by Bridging Public Health and Aging-in-Place Efforts: Toolkit January 23, 2018

  Joie D. Acosta, Regina A. Shih, Emily K. Chen, Lea Xenakis, Eric G. Carbone, Lane F. Burgette, Anita Chandra

  This toolkit contains information and activities that can bring together those involved in aging-in-place support (specifically, age-friendly communities and villages) and those involved in disaster resilience efforts to improve the resilience of older adults to natural and human-caused disasters. Specifically, the toolkit aims to help these groups plan, implement, evaluate, and improve their independent and collaborative resilience activities.

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  ENGAGED Toolkit: Improving the Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Disaster Response and Recovery April 18, 2016

  Joie D. Acosta, Anita Chandra, Vivian L. Towe, Yandong Zhao, Yangxu Lu

  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. In addition, the toolkit fills an important gap in knowledge and understanding about the key elements that drive NGO participation.

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  Partnerships for Recovery Across The Sectors (PRACTIS) Toolkit September 15, 2015

  Joie D. Acosta, Anita Chandra, Lea Xenakis, Danielle M. Varda, Monika Eros-Sarnyai, David Eisenman, Ingrid Gonzalez, Jaime Gutierrez, Deborah C. Glik, Sara Sprong

  The Partnerships for Recovery Across The Sectors (PRACTIS) toolkit strengthens disaster recovery partnerships between local health departments (LHDs) and community-based organizations (CBOs). It contains a sample survey to help LHDs identify CBOs that contribute to disaster response and recovery, a quality improvement guide to identify partnership strengths and weaknesses, and a tabletop recovery exercise to improve partnerships.

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  Community Resilience: Learn and Tell Toolkit April 22, 2015

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

  This toolkit is intended to teach people about community resilience so that they can then educate others about how to build resilience. This toolkit has tips, information, games, and exercises about resilience for anyone in the community interested in this topic. In addition to community members, organizations can also use this toolkit to communicate with their staff and service populations about resilience.

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  The Hungrier Games: Disaster Resilience Skills for Youth April 22, 2015

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

  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. The guide may be used by adults that supervise high school youth.

Trainings

Related Tools and Resources

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.