Community Preparedness and Resilience Strategies

RNPN will host its annual “Next Generation of Resilience” event. The Next Generation of Resilience Exchange showcases the work and perspectives of students and young resilience professionals. Featured panelists will get to share their perspectives on the future of resilience. There are two goals for this event. Partners will be exposed to innovative ideas on natural hazard resilience and climate change. Our next generation practitioners will have the opportunity to share their work and network with established professionals. The event is part of our Resilience Exchange series, which offers monthly learning sessions on a specific subject to share knowledge and advance conversations around a particular area of natural hazard resilience.

These events are open to all! If you know someone who may be interested, feel free to share this registration with your network.

FEMA Region 9 and 10 are excited to partner with Tzu Chi, a Buddhist international humanitarian organization whose mission is to relieve the suffering of those in need while creating a better world for all through compassion, love, and hope.

Join this discussion to hear from a leading organization in the field of assisting disaster survivors and how we can better implement disaster preparedness and response.

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If you need a reasonable accommodation such as sign language interpreters, Braille, or CART please contact Christian Erickson@fema.dhs.gov as soon as possible. Last minute requests will be accepted but may not be possible to fulfill.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in partnership with the DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, invites you to a webinar for the faith-based community as part of the “Protecting Places of Worship National Weeks of Action.

This two-hour webinar provides information and best practices that can enhance emergency action planning capabilities applicable broadly across sectors and provides considerations to mitigate the impacts of an active shooter incident, while encouraging recovery preparedness in a manner that sustains an open and welcoming environment for the community to peaceably worship in a manner that sustains an open and welcoming environment for the community to peaceably worship.

Please join the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, September 27, 2024, for a webinar for leaders, staff, and volunteers of migrant-serving non-profit organizations. DHS personnel from our Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will share ways to enhance the safety, security, and resilience of your communities – especially against threats and acts of targeted violence.  Building on the April presentations, this webinar will focus on security planning, to include gang violence awareness, for your organizations.

FEMA Higher Education Program: 2024 Monthly Community Webinars

When: Third Friday of each month, 2:00–3:00 p.m. EST
Where: Via Zoom
Description: The 10 States Project analyzes crucial divides in services and historical divestments in African American communities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia that can be replicated in other areas of the country. African American communities in these states are more likely to be impacted by the effects of climate change, and experience drastic differences in access to information and essential public services. The 10 States Project created a set of interactive tools that explore the intersection of the digital divide, environmental justice, climate change, and emergency management. – Monica Sanders, Georgetown University, The Undivide Project

More Information: FEMA Higher Education Program | Community Webinars

Organizing Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks  in North America and Worldwide

From record heat waves, storms, wildfires, droughts, floods, and other disasters, to increasing disruptions to the ecological, social, and economic systems people rely on for food, water, shelter, jobs, incomes, health, and other basic needs, the global climate-ecosystem-biodiversity (C-E-B) crisis is rapidly escalating. The crisis is an unprecedented public health emergency that will produce radically more and different types of mental health and psychosocial problems than society has ever experienced.  

Individualized mental health services cannot address the pervasive traumas speeding our way.  Instead, a public health approach must be used in neighborhoods and communities to strengthen everyone’s capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for relentless adversities, as residents engage in activities that help reduce the C-E-B crisis to manageable levels and enhance local conditions. 

To accomplish this, as a partner in the U.N. High level Climate Champion Race to Resilience Campaign, the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) and its core partners the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) and Trauma Informed Oregon (TIO) will work with co-sponsors worldwide to help organize, strengthen, and “Commission” Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRNCs) worldwide.  

A TRCN is a wide and diverse coalition of local grassroots, neighborhood, education, youth, faith/ spirituality, mental and physical health, social work, disaster management, climate/environmental, social and environmental justice, and other civic, non-profit, private, and public sector leaders. From the bottom-up, the TRCN develops and implements locally-appropriate strategies that help all adults, adolescents, and young children remain socially, psychologically, emotionally, and behaviorally healthy and resilient during continual adversities, as they also engage in activities that help reduce the C-E-B crisis to manageable levels and enhance local conditions. 

The TRCN Commissioning initiative will help community leaders in North America and worldwide learn how to organize a TRCN, facilitate and strengthen its operations, and develop and continually improve strategies that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience. 

• Click here to register for the October 1 webinar
• If you want to attend a 2-part Community of Practice held on Tuesday October 22 and Tuesday October 29 from 12 noon to 1 pm Eastern Time to learn more about TRCN Commissioning Program sign up here.
• If you want to apply to participate in the TRCN Commissioning Program please go here

FEMA released the National Resilience Guidance (NRG) and a webinar series that will provide an overview of the NRG and the supplemental resilience resources available. Register for the webinars on: