Program Overview

Disaster resilient communities are those that work together to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters.   

Throughout our program participants:

• Identify their local risks and threats
• Voice their personal and community concerns 
• Create a disaster resilient vision for their home and for their community
• Brainstorm personal and community solutions that will assist disaster prevention, preparedness, response and recovery
• Implement personal and community actions that build disaster resilience 

Our seven program workshops cover the following topics:

• climate change;
• food;
• water;
• energy;
• infrastructure;
• economy;
• ecosystem; and
• health resilience.

PROJECT BACKGROUND

Resilient Communities is based on OzGREEN's Living Communities program. 

Living Communities began in 2000 as a community education initiative of OzGREEN and Warringah Council to address stormwater pollution. Since then, OzGREEN has worked in partnership with organisations such as Sun Microsystems, AMP, AGSM, Allco, Dimension Data; Hurstville, Canterbury, Bankstown, Wollondilly Shire and Onkaparinga Councils; and trained over 200 community facilitators.

QUESTIONS

If you have any questions, please contact Kathleen, Resilient Communities Project Coordinator, on [email protected] or (02) 5615 8108.