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# '''Keep response plans up to date.''' A response plan is a dynamic document. Even if a charter or operations plan is written, it should be regularly reviewed and updated as resources change.
# '''Keep response plans up to date.''' A response plan is a dynamic document. Even if a charter or operations plan is written, it should be regularly reviewed and updated as resources change.
# '''Build strong foundations.''' It's tempting to tackle all problems at once, but this leads to burnout and incomplete solutions. Instead, prioritize and focus on resolving issues decisively. Then, move on to the next priority, giving it the same attention. Be realistic about what can be accomplished based on available resources.
# '''Build strong foundations.''' It's tempting to tackle all problems at once, but this leads to burnout and incomplete solutions. Instead, prioritize and focus on resolving issues decisively. Then, move on to the next priority, giving it the same attention. Be realistic about what can be accomplished based on available resources.
'''Community resilience in YOUR neighborhood:''' One of the most important parts to the CRD Concept, and what makes a CRD different from a Neighborhood Emergency Team, is that a CRD incorporates a comprehensive and holistic view of community resilience. CRDs are encouraged to bring other neighbors and neighborhood groups into the goals of the CRD around promoting community resilience. But, community resilience to emergencies and disasters is merely ''one'' way of looking at community resilience, and a CRD brings in all relevant perspectives.
'''Networking in your neighborhood.''' A CRD must decide on their own ''whether'' to combine disaster preparedness goals with other community resilience goals. PBEM will only advise considering: does the community have resources and will to take on additional priorities? Does the CRD have access to expertise needed (PBEM cannot, for example, offer advice or staff time to assist with crime prevention)? Is there a program better suited to address the priority considered (for example, the Main Street program with Prosper Portland is an excellent approach to community resilience with an economic development orientation)?
In practice, CRD's guiding principles address problems raised by NETs in the following manner:
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Details of these issues are outlined in an internal PBEM memo accessible [https://hcpaw.portlandoregon.gov/u/7Iit0gUIref-iK3R/402db007-baa3-4aaa-9ec5-2d21c3f93554?l HERE].
'''The CRD model is intended not just to resolve issues in NET organization, but to apply Community Resilience''' as a key concept of practice in volunteer teams. The implications of that mean:
# A CRD is not just a group of trained NET volunteers, but includes local volunteers and programs from any discipline that promotes community resilience of any kind.
# Disaster preparedness and response skills and knowledge are only one kind of skill/knowledge valued in a CRD.
# A CRD should be made up of community leaders who give all volunteers access to the expertise and perspectives needed to form and practice a holistic approach to community resilience.
Community resilience dividends are the positive additional outcomes of an active CRD. For example, among the most important things a person can do to prepare for a disaster is getting to know their neighbors. The CRD model promotes that activity through the Community Resilience Workbook.  It is well documented that when neighbors know each other, crime in the area drops. The effort a CRD makes promoting neighborhood connections results in a neighborhood more resilient from both a disaster prep and a crime prevention approach. Therefore, if a CRD takes an orientation to community resilience broader than the one presented in this CRD Guide, work preparing for a disaster may result in other community resilience dividends.
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