PBEM Community Resilience Team Mission, Vision, and Values

Vision

Portlanders support one another to respond, adapt, and thrive after a disaster.

Mission

Building networks of resilience for all who live, work, and play in Portland.

Values

• PBEM CRT includes the whole community. Portlanders, emergency management practitioners, organizational and community leaders, and businesses will understand and assess the resilience needs of their communities and determine the best ways to organize and strengthen that resilience.
• PBEM CRT centers its work in service to communities historically most impacted by disaster: communities of color, immigrants, refuges, and people with disabilities. Our first partners are leaders of Portland’s historically underserved communities. We prefer universal design and lead with equity to design and translate resources and programming usable by all people with minimal adaptation.
• PBEM CRT favors quality over quantity. We recognize that resources spent on good design, long-term partnerships, complete sentences over bullet points, and conversations over slide shows result in clear messages, force multipliers, and decentralized expertise with universal access to knowledge and practices of community resilience.

PBEM's Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

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PBEM's Approach to Community Resilience

Community resilience is a shared, community-based practice building social connections, collective strengths, and skills key to resisting/absorbing/recovering from a widespread disaster, as well as local and regional emergencies.