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COAD: Leveraging Community Assets During Disasters

COAD: Leveraging Community Assets During Disasters. Live Prepared. COAD. Southeast Wisconsin Citizens and Organizations Active in Disasters empowers volunteers and organizations to serve local communities before, during and after disasters. We build community resilience through collaboration!.

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COAD: Leveraging Community Assets During Disasters

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  1. COAD: Leveraging Community Assets During Disasters Live Prepared.

  2. COAD • Southeast Wisconsin Citizens and Organizations Active in Disasters empowers volunteers and organizations to serve local communities before, during and after disasters. • We build community resilience through collaboration!

  3. COAD Programs • Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) • SE WI Medical Reserve Corps • Tri-County Long Term Recovery Committee • Wisconsin Emergency Resource Registry

  4. Leveraging Community Assets • Communities have existing resources, even after a disaster, that have the capacity to improve service to those in need • Existing organizations can be force-multipliers

  5. FEMA’s Whole Community • “Understanding and meeting the true needs of the entire affected community.” • “Engaging all aspects of the community (public, private, and civic) in both defining those needs and devising ways to meet them.” • “Strengthening the assets, institutions, and social processes that work well in communities on a daily basis to improve resilience and emergency management outcomes.”

  6. The Surge Model • Strengthen existing systems to reduce the burden during a disaster • Borrowed from public health • Reduced focus on building traditional end services • Block by block strategy • Use partners as force-multipliers

  7. Rural and Urban Models Rural • Strengths • Stronger community connectivity • Easier to reach potential high-level supporters • Challenges • Lower participation • Hard to ‘break-in’ Urban • Strengths • Increased marketing value/impact • Larger potential audience • Challenges • Partners change frequently • Small fish in a big pond

  8. Engaging the Community • Decentralized structures allow community networks to flourish • Transparent situational awareness and two-way communication improve intelligence and response capacity • Preparedness and inclusive planning build strong relationships ahead of an event

  9. Partnership Council • Quarterly meetings • Varied planning topics • Long-term Recovery, Volunteer Management, Surge Planning • Partners & guests welcome • Blend of education and table top

  10. Community Asset Registry • Building a registry for community resources • Donated goods/services only • Interested businesses, churches, schools, non-profits and community groups • Solves the problem of “the ask”

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