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- Title
The role of community service organisations in disaster resilience: the Hub project.
- Authors
Davies, Jo; Sidoti, Francesca
- Abstract
This report presents the findings from the Creative, Community, Wellbeing and Resilience Hub (the Hub) project, a disaster preparation, recovery and resilience initiative developed and run by Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre in Blackheath, New South Wales. The aim of the Hub is to combine creative, practical and psychosocial support to develop an integrated, placebased, whole-of-community disaster recovery and preparation model. The Hub project delivered a program of events, workshops and activities on social connectedness, practical support, education (including property preparation before bushfire seasons) and psychosocial and physical wellbeing. The program ran from January 2022 to June 2023 after an initial consultation between June and December 2022. The program was developed in response to recent adverse events, particularly the cumulative toll of numerous natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic, and to prepare for future ones. The report found that participants in the Hub program overwhelmingly benefited from participating in the Hub with demonstrable improvements in community connectedness, experiences of belonging, participation in community events and resilience. The Hub is a model for effective community sector organisations disaster preparation, recovery and resilience work. The Hub project also revealed the work these organisations are already doing in emergency and disaster preparation, recovery and resilience as well as their effectiveness and the untapped potential of their long-term funding.
- Subjects
NEW South Wales; DISASTER resilience; COMMUNITY services; SOCIAL support; SOCIAL belonging; NONPROFIT sector
- Publication
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 2024, Vol 39, Issue 2, p57
- ISSN
1324-1540
- Publication type
Article