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Central Appalachia Resiliency Exchange

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Motivating Local Climate Adaptation and Strengthening Resilience: Making Local Data Trusted, Useful, and Used

Introduction to Heat Tabletop Planning and Coordination

HUD Community Resilience Toolkit

How do we build community resilience to disasters in a changing climate?

FEMA Community Emergency Response Team Video Teaser

Introduction to Community Emergency Response Team (CERTs)

Conserving an Intact and Enduring Appalachian Landscape

Climate Change Response Framework (Forest Adaptation)

Climate Resilience in Central Appalachia: Impacts and Opportunities

Centering Equity In Climate Resilience Planning & Action – A Practitioner’S Guide

At a Glance: FEMA’s Property Buy-Out Program

A Land Managers Guide for Creating Fire-resistant Forests

Creating Disaster-Resilient Buildings to Minimize Debris

Central Appalachians Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment

Disaster Resilient Design Concepts

Small Scale Energy Back-up Guide

The Resilience Adaptability Feasibility Tool (RAFT)

Climate Resilience through Community Resilience: – Studio Appalachia, UK

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About the CARE Resource Hub

Explore our evolving resource hub that contains information curated for use in the region to cut through the noise and allow our communities to move towards implementation and resilience building. This toolkit is organized topically by potential users and is focused on those resources that are ready for implementation by communities, local businesses, households, farmers, and other organizations. Resources are all publicly available for different types of users in Central Appalachia.

What is Disaster Resilience?

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When we face extreme weather events, our communities have immediate and long term needs. Building community resilience allows us to put plans and resources in place before disaster to allow us to return to normal and recover more readily.

During a disaster, we can lose access to power, water, communication, and safe roads and must have plans in place to allow our communities to react. This can include using nature-based design for flood mitigation, investing in flood barriers, developing community resilience hubs, implementing emergency response plans, supporting resilient local agriculture, and supporting mutual aid networks to coordinate response. Central Appalachia is vulnerable to floods, high wind events, winter storms, and extreme temperatures.

The Community Resilience & Adaptation Working Group (CRAWG) has created the Central Appalachia Resiliency Exchange (CARE) an evolving Resource Hub with the goal of providing information and resources that are easy to accessible to the public.

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Disaster Resiliency Webinar Series

Webinar Series

Watch recordings of a new series that explores disaster resiliency in Appalachia

(listed below)

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CAN teamed up with our friends at the ReImagine Appalachia to offer a new virtual series that explores effective disaster response in depth. From causes to mitigation; resilience to recovery; resources to first-hand survivor advice, we’ll help you get equipped with region-specific disaster resilience tools and knowledge.