Community Building Tip: Emergency Hub
For my current set of tips, I'm using the list "101 Small Ways You Can Improve Your City.
83. Launch a community emergency hub. It’s not the most ideal circumstances under which to meet your neighbors, but knowing you have a local support network in place is critical for a crisis. Emergency hubs provide a centralized meeting place and a strategy that allows neighborhoods to remain self-sufficient in the days or weeks after natural disasters. In Seattle there are about 50 groups specifically organized for such events. This is especially good because climate change is making natural disasters—like the recent Hurricane Florence—worse.
Preferably, meet your neighbors before the shit hits the fan. Talk about:
* what disasters are most likely in your neighborhood
* how you will handle them, with or without outside help
* what skills people have -- doctors, nurses, construction workers, teachers, etc.
* what tools people have -- a storm shelter, chainsaws, generators, floodlamps, canoes, etc.
* what special needs people have -- air conditioning, a wheelchair, gluten-free food, etc.
83. Launch a community emergency hub. It’s not the most ideal circumstances under which to meet your neighbors, but knowing you have a local support network in place is critical for a crisis. Emergency hubs provide a centralized meeting place and a strategy that allows neighborhoods to remain self-sufficient in the days or weeks after natural disasters. In Seattle there are about 50 groups specifically organized for such events. This is especially good because climate change is making natural disasters—like the recent Hurricane Florence—worse.
Preferably, meet your neighbors before the shit hits the fan. Talk about:
* what disasters are most likely in your neighborhood
* how you will handle them, with or without outside help
* what skills people have -- doctors, nurses, construction workers, teachers, etc.
* what tools people have -- a storm shelter, chainsaws, generators, floodlamps, canoes, etc.
* what special needs people have -- air conditioning, a wheelchair, gluten-free food, etc.