Preparedness and Community Resilience in Disaster-Prone Areas: Cross-Sectoral Collaborations in South Louisiana, 2018
To determine how community-based organizations (CBOs) define priorities for bolstering community resilience, challenges in addressing these priorities, and strategies to address challenges. The Community Resilience Learning Collaborative and Research Network (C-LEARN) is a multiphase study examining...
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| Published in: | American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 109; no. S4; pp. S309 - S315 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Public Health Association
01-09-2019
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| Summary: | To determine how community-based organizations (CBOs) define priorities for bolstering community resilience, challenges in addressing these priorities, and strategies to address challenges.
The Community Resilience Learning Collaborative and Research Network (C-LEARN) is a multiphase study examining opportunities to improve community resilience to the threats of disaster and climate change in South Louisiana. Phase I of C-LEARN involved using the National Health Security Strategy and Implementation Plan for directed content analysis of key informant interviews with CBO representatives from 47 agencies within South Louisiana between February and May 2018.
CBO interviewees highlighted the importance of forging relationships and building trust through diverse cross-sector collaborations and partnerships before disasters. Such collaborations and partnerships were shown to tailor disaster response to the needs of particular communities and populations as well as address key challenges such as gaps in information, services, and resources.
Our results encourage a culture of community resilience and community preparedness through partnerships and community-engaged strategies. C-LEARN will utilize the results of our interviews in the design of phase II of our agency-level coalition-building intervention. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Peer Reviewed CONTRIBUTORS M. J. Pollock serves on the Community Resilience Learning Collaborative and Research Network (C-LEARN) Leadership Council and led data analysis and co-led article writing. A. Wennerstrom serves on the C-LEARN Leadership Council, provided training, supervised data analysis, and co-led article writing. G. True provided training, supervised data analysis, and co-led article writing. A. Everett serves on the C-LEARN Leadership Council, is the study project coordinator, and assisted with references and article editing. O. Sugarman and M. Massimi serve on the C-LEARN Leadership Council and assisted with article editing. C. Haywood and A. Johnson serve on the C-LEARN Leadership Council and co-led study protocol development. D. Meyers serves on the C-LEARN Leadership Council, assisted with article editing, and co-led study protocol development. J. Sato served on the C-LEARN Leadership Council and led data collection and transcription. K. B. Wells serves on the C-LEARN Leadership Council and assisted with article editing and study design. A. C. Arevian is a C-LEARN principal investigator and assisted with article editing and study design. J. Berry, L. Riefberg, and N. Onyewuenyi assisted with data collection and analysis. B. Springgate is a C-LEARN principal investigator and co-led article writing and study design. |
| ISSN: | 0090-0036 1541-0048 |
| DOI: | 10.2105/ajph.2019.305152 |