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Tue, 2012-06-19 20:45 — mdmcdonald
This working group is focused on discussions about assessing resilience in the U.S.

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Resilient Communities: Building Strong Communities Through Affordable Housing

Sun, 2012-07-22 13:02 — Maeryn Obley

rand.org


In this podcast, we hear from Heather Schwartz, a policy researcher based in RAND's New Orleans office who studies the effects of integrating low- and middle-income families on the school experiences of children from low-income families. Her most recent work asks whether 11 cities' inclusionary zoning policies actually achieve the policy goal for social inclusion. This work is relevant to communities that are interested in retaining lower-income families who might otherwise be priced out of their high-cost housing markets.

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Enhancing Public Health Emergency Preparedness for Special Needs Populations - A Toolkit for State and Local Planning and Response

Sun, 2012-07-22 01:42 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                                                       

rand.org - - by Jeanne S. Ringel, Anita Chandra, Malcolm Williams, Karen A. Ricci, Alexandria Felton, David M. Adamson, Margaret M. Weden, Meilinda Huang

Building Community Resilience to Disasters - A Way Forward to Enhance National Health Security

Sun, 2012-07-22 01:04 — Kathy Gilbeaux

rand.org

Community resilience, or the sustained ability of a community to withstand and recover from adversity has become a key policy issue at federal, state, and local levels, including in the National Health Security Strategy. Because resources are limited in the wake of an emergency, it is increasingly recognized that resilience is critical to a community's ability to reduce long recovery periods after an emergency. This report provides a roadmap for federal, state, and local leaders who are developing plans to enhance community resilience for health security threats and describes options for building community resilience in key areas. Based on findings from a literature review and a series of community and regional focus groups, the authors provide a definition of community resilience in the context of national health security and a set of eight levers and five core components for building resilience. They then describe suggested activities that communities are pursuing and may want to strengthen for community resilience, and they identify challenges to implementation.

Why Aren't Americans Listening to Disaster Preparedness Messages?

Sun, 2012-07-22 00:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

rand.org - by Lori Uscher-Pines, Anita Chandra, Joie Acosta, Arthur L. Kellermann - June 29, 2012

"Have an emergency plan for your family.” "Expect to be on your own for three days." "Stock a disaster kit with water, food, basic medical supplies, and prescription drugs. Include extra clothes, a flashlight, and a battery-powered radio." "Be sure you know what your community's disaster plan is."

This is the kind of advice public health officials have been giving the public since 9/11. But the public isn't listening. Four years after Hurricane Katrina, only slightly more than half of those responding to a survey by the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported that they had any kind of emergency preparedness kit in their homes. Other national surveys report similarly dismal findings.

Given the recent spate of highly publicized disasters, why don't more Americans pay attention?

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2012 Annual Public Safety Survey: Revealing Americans' Awareness and Preparedness Surrounding Emergency Situations

Fri, 2012-07-13 21:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Ben Sheppard

federalsignal-indust.com

We believe Federal Signal's 2012 Public Safety Survey is the most comprehensive national survey gauging the public's emotional reactions to emergency and disaster situations - from their response to notification alerts and sirens to their trust in their community's emergency preparedness. It takes more than community officials to ensure that the public is prepared for a disaster. Whether warnings emanate from a siren or from a neighbor, effective response to an emergency alert or notification demands the engagement of each and every citizen. This survey brings to light just how critical it is for members of the general public to be actively engaged during an emergency crisis. More importantly, the survey stresses how important it is for Americans to have an emergency plan in place that enables them to act quickly when their safety is threatened.

http://www.federalsignal-indust.com/survey.asp

2012 Annual Public Safety Survey: Revealing Americans' Awareness and Preparedness Surrounding Emergency Situations (12 page .PDF file)

Overcoming Inertia - Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI)

Tue, 2012-07-10 11:41 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Tom McGinn

                                  

June 2012 CARRI News - By Warren Edwards, Executive Director, CARRI

Extreme Poverty Up 50% Since 2000

Mon, 2012-06-25 17:56 — Corey Watts

                                                         Homeless mother and child. (photo: unknown)

http://readersupportednews.org - by Evan Soltas - June 25, 2012

For the purpose of our analysis here, an individual as "extremely poor" if he or she resides in a family unit whose income is less than half of the federal poverty threshold. To give you a sense of what that means, the awful extremity of extreme poverty: a single person under 65 must have made less than $5,851, and a family of four must have made less than $11,509. (In my opinion, it is likely that for the majority of the extreme poor, taxable income is zero.)

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