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Empowering Communities for Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans 2007

Explore how communities can drive rapid action, foster inclusiveness, and adapt to challenges through a resilient approach. Learn from San Francisco's efforts to empower local leadership and enhance disaster preparedness.

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Empowering Communities for Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans 2007

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  1. Welcome

  2. “New Orleans, 2007 – Back to the Future” Mayor Ed Lee

  3. Lessons from Katrina Harvard Kennedy School says Communities must be able to… • Nurture capable local leadership that can drive rapid, substantive action • Focus on inclusiveness and embrace self-reliance • Achieve the ability to seek out and interface successfully with outside sources of help (government, foundations, universities, corporations, NGOs …) • Be able to evolve & adapt as challenges arise by developing new skills and capacities

  4. The Goal for The Community and Recovery For the City and County of San Francisco to recover from a major hazard in an expedited manner, as well as have as many pre-event residents, and communities, as part of the re-constituted City populous as possible. Meanwhile in small town called San Francisco….

  5. In SF, the underlying issues… • Issue is by nature - “negative” • There is no hard event “window” • San Francisco has a unique situation • Unstable social capital environment • Acquiring complete skill set is difficult

  6. Empowering Communities to be their best...

  7. The NEN “Universe” Academic Institutions Executive / Legislative Branch Neighborhood Groups Government Agencies Residents Non-Government Organizations

  8. The NEN Empowered Communities Program is an asset based organizing initiative that supports communities as they leverage hyper local problem solving to build strong sustainable cross sector working relationships with both local and regional stakeholders.

  9. Make resilience approachable…

  10. Make resilience about function…

  11. Introduction of ECP Opportunity Event – April 3, 2013 Resilience Action Plan Launch Event - July 28th, 2013

  12. Resilient Bayview Action Plan Development Action Plan Creation & Implementation Establish Goals and Vision Create a Community • Establish Performance Goals by Functional Area: • Education • Health • Economic • Utilities • Public Safety • Social / Cultural • Disaster Prep • Environmental • Engage key neighborhood stakeholders • Create cross sector program planning committee Create Action Plan & Governance Model & Implementation Strategy & Develop Neighborhood Center • Convene Working Groups: • Families & Kids • Small Business • Seniors &People Living with Disabilities • Immigrant Communities Inventory and Prioritized Goals & Develop Vision Statement for the Community’s Performance in times of stress Host Action Plan Launch Event • Merge working groups data into one document • Create an organizational model for implementation of the plan • Establish metrics • Craft action plans for times of stress • Advocate for investments that will mitigate the impact of an event Capacity Building • Create Working Groups • Set time table for meetings • Develop Unifying Vision for Resilience • Increase trust amongst participants • Emphasize Cultural Competence • Prioritize goals by audience • Map assets, resources and networks

  13. The ECP Resiliency Council Non Profit Library Elected Official Merchant Resiliency Council Steering Committee Foundation Faith Based Academic Institution / University / College City Agency

  14. The ECP Resiliency Council How data is being collected, shared and leveraged • DataSF • SF FIND.info • Community Resilience Indicator Project • Streetwise

  15. Back to the Future, again…. Our City - Ready for Anything

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