Rural Project Examples: Emergency preparedness and response
Other Project Examples
Shawnee Preparedness and Response Coalition
Updated/reviewed August 2024
- Need: To enhance emergency preparedness in rural areas by providing access to training, exercises, and crucial information.
- Intervention: SPARC, a coalition of 197 organizations in southern Illinois, focuses on emergency preparedness.
- Results: SPARC has facilitated numerous training sessions, exercises, and community events, enhancing regional preparedness and resilience.
Community Collaboration Adaptation of COPEWELL with Rural Texas Libraries
Added March 2024
- Need: To help rural communities in Texas better prepare for disasters and emergency events.
- Intervention: A year-long pilot project used focus groups, a survey, and exit interviews to research a collaboration with librarians and local stakeholders to discuss a community's strengths and opportunities for resiliency planning.
- Results: Community stakeholders in Pottsboro and Gladewater collaborated to identify challenges to rural disaster preparedness like aging infrastructure and lack of communication with residents. They began the process to address these challenges through local resiliency planning and future programming.
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