Community Awareness
563 residents participated in three resilience workshops.
Community awareness workshops will introduce resilience themes to community members and grow local capacity to prepare for and respond to emergency scenarios.
Multilingual workshops focus on resilience topics impacting the community.
Emergency Kits were distributed to Alief community members at the Emergence Readiness workshop.
Young people improve their skills, capacity and the resources available to them by leading workshops on topics of interest to their neighbors.
To build a picture of each community, the Resilience for Communities (R4C) program used risk mapping, open-data sources, expert interviews, community surveys and focus groups. This assessment used the Climate Resilience Measurement for Communities (CRMC) tool to assess community resilience to extreme heat and flooding - helping to identify priorities and design solutions.
Sources of resilience — Enhanced food security strengthens the community’s financial, human and social capital.
Young people gain leadership skills and capacity to organize their community by planning and overseeing workshops.
Regular workshops strengthen social ties and create opportunities for neighbors to build relationships and help one another.
Impact multipliers — Resilience solutions have a different mix of impact multipliers and impact multiple systems, businesses and societies. Together, multipliers produce anamplified impact.
Increased community cohesion
Resilience and emergency preparedness workshops help inform residents on how to prepare before extreme weather events.
Community awareness
Multilingual workshops help emergency preparedness information reach different parts of Alief’s diverse community.
How does this solution make a difference? – Addressing prioritized shocks and stresses
Extreme weather
Low awareness
Preparing for extreme weather
Community resilience workshops help raise awareness about extreme weather risks and provide information about how families can prepare for heavy rainfall, power outages and more.
Raising awareness
Reaching communities with clear, accessible language will increase community awareness of disaster protocols.
As many as 45,000 homes experienced power outages in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in 2017.Estimates for future flood risk predict that 77% of homes have a greater than 26% chance of being severely affected by flooding in the next 30 years, according to First Street.
As many as 45,000 homes experienced power outages in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in 2017.Estimates for future flood risk predict that 77% of homes have a greater than 26% chance of being severely affected by flooding in the next 30 years, according to First Street.
