LOCAL RESILIENCE ACTION NETWORK (LRAN)
OPPORTUNITY
Rebuild by Design is partnering with Local Initiatives Support Coalition (LISC) to work with a cohort of five community-based organizations across the country to develop community-centered disaster preparedness frameworks to prepare for and respond to everyday and extreme weather events.
Communities across the United States are living with the effects of ongoing disasters, not as isolated emergencies but as daily conditions that shape wellbeing. Extreme heat, seasonal flooding, air quality hazards, power outages, and displacement pressures are becoming familiar across urban centers, rural regions, Tribal communities, and neighborhoods that have long carried the weight of underinvestment. As system stresses intensify faster than public systems can adapt, it is more important than ever that communities have frameworks in place to address these challenges.
WHAT IS A DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FRAMEWORK?
We define a disaster preparedness framework as a plan that helps communities prepare and respond to everyday disaster events that:
- Strengthens disaster preparedness and response to ensure local input and leadership in disaster relief, response and recovery periods.
- Develops preventative risk mitigation measures and pathways to relief and recovery
- Defines clear roles for immediate disaster resilience needs
- Co-developed through community-driven planning
Meet the cohort
APPALACHIAN VOICES
KRISTIN STROUP & PAULA SWEPSON AVERY (WEST MARION INC.)
MCDOWELL COUNTY, WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
Appalachian Voices brings people together to protect the land, air and water of Central and Southern Appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy. To learn more, CLICK HERE>>
EASTSIDE COMMUNITY NETWORK
MARIE GARCIA
DETROIT, MI
ECN spearheads initiatives that promote social cohesion, neighborhood sustainability, community participation, and resident empowerment. To learn more, CLICK HERE>>
TIERRA DEL SOL
DIANA BUSTAMENTE
RURAL NEW MEXICO
Tierra Del Sol Housing Corporation has been to improve the quality of life of persons in its service area by empowering them economically, politically and socially through homeownership, employment training and through access to financial resources. To learn more, CLICK HERE>>
T.R.U.S.T. SOUTH LA
OSCAR MONGE & VANESA INIQUEZ
LOS ANGELES, CA
T.R.U.S.T. South LA works with low-income community residents to transform the built environment and social conditions in South Los Angeles through community ownership and development, housing, and transportation. To learn more, CLICK HERE>>
RAIL CDC
AUGIE GASTELUM & HECTOR TRETO
PHOENIX, AZ
RAIL CDC is a place-based community development corporation that offers corridor development, small business technical assistance, and neighborhood organizing in LMI census tracts around public transit. To learn more, CLICK HERE>>
PROCESS & TIMELINE
PROCESS
In workings with organizations across the country to develop disaster preparedness frameworks, Rebuild by Design has designed touch points throughout the process to build trust between organizations and create shared learnings, map roles and actions for preparedness, that ultimately result in community-centered preparedness frameworks that are adaptable to the needs of the communities each organization serves. This process includes:
- Month 1-2: Project Kick Off & Intros
- Month 3-4: First In-Person Convening Co-creating a Framework Strategy
- Month 5: Mapping Roles and Actions for Preparedness
- Month 6: Site Visits to Organizations
- Month 7: Peer Review of Frameworks
- Month 8: Final Framework Presentations
LOCAL RESILIENCE ACTION NETWORK UPDATES
In October, after selecting five organizations to participate in the cohort, we kicked off our project by introducing each other, the project goals, and discussing what a disaster preparedness framework is.
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In December, Rebuild, LISC, and organizations traveled to Phoenix, AZ where we workshop and co-created a disaster framework strategy for each organization. Our visit also included a site tour of Rail CDC’s sites that showcased how community resilience can take many shapes, from economic, to arts and culture that keeps community members rooted.
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In March, Rebuild by Design is conducting site visits to offer 1-1 support for each community-based organization. We spent time with Appalachian Voices in Western North Carolina to learn more about opportunities for resiliency hubs. In LA, we ran a workshop with T.R.U.S.T. South LA to narrow in on specific actions and strategies to address different disasters their community experiences.
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