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Knowing Your Own Community: Conducting a Social Vulnerability Assessment

Knowing Your Own Community: Conducting a Social Vulnerability Assessment. Sessions 24-26. Sessions’ Objectives. Evaluate a sample Community Vulnerability Assessment

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Knowing Your Own Community: Conducting a Social Vulnerability Assessment

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  1. Knowing Your Own Community: Conducting a Social Vulnerability Assessment Sessions 24-26

  2. Sessions’ Objectives • Evaluate a sample Community Vulnerability Assessment • Develop a plan for completing the components of a Vulnerability Assessment (other than Societal Analysis) for one geographical area • Complete the Societal Analysis portion for one community

  3. Community Vulnerability Analysis

  4. New Hanover Societal Analysis • Identified areas of special consideration • Concentrations of: • Poor • Elderly • Minorities • Single-parent families • Low education rates • High public assistance • Renters • No private vehicles • Identified where these intersect with hazards

  5. Uses of a CVA • Provides systematic inventory • Establishes a baseline for mitigation • Locates hazardous areas in relation to vulnerable populations • Provides basis for establishing priorities • Involves a variety of parties in process • Increases community awareness

  6. Class Projects • Identification of community: location, geographical boundaries, political boundaries, general demographics • Brief Hazards Identification and Analysis • Societal Analysis (most important section) Population groups and location on map Community level factors: Some examples • Identification of High Risk Areas • Plan for completion of other components of CVA • Description of how CVA would be useful

  7. Societal Analysis • Categories of socially vulnerable groups • Poor • Minorities • Low educational levels • Female-headed households • Elders/Disabled • Renters/Transients • Locations of high concentration Possible Data Sources U.S. Census School records Immigration services Local aging agency Special needs registries Property tax records Facilities locations

  8. Community Level Factors Social Structure • Government • Social services • Social organizations • Neighborhood groups • Social networks • Leadership

  9. Community Data Collection • Interview community leaders • Locate government services, organizations • Consult community directories • Social services • Churches and religious groups • Volunteer service organizations • Check announcements in local newspapers • Look for intra-governmental agreements • Survey sample of residents • Others?

  10. Community Vulnerability Assessment Assignment • Brief overview of Hazards, Critical Facilities, Economic and Environmental Sections • Complete Societal • Analysis Component

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