Community Preparedness Team Strategic Plan: Difference between revisions
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|Communities manage their own disaster response volunteer teams. | |Communities manage their own disaster response volunteer teams. | ||
|It is not the responsibility of PBEM or the City of Portland to manage neighborhood-based teams of disaster response volunteers; only to support them through training, equipment, and information. Community organizing must happen at the community level. | |It is not the responsibility of PBEM or the City of Portland to manage neighborhood-based teams of disaster response volunteers; only to support them through training, equipment, and information. Community organizing must happen at the community level. | ||
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|PBEM should work with other government organizations and community organizations to force multiply resilience and produce "community resilience dividends". | |||
|Communities better prepared for a disaster also present better public health outcomes, less social isolation, and less crime. When possible, PBEM should remove disaster resilience from its silo and connect programming to other resilience efforts. | |||
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