Query: Community Disaster Recovery

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[ed:  thanks to Cheryl for replying to Bill's query.]

From: "Cheryl Honey, Excel Strategies, Inc." <wecare at familynetwork.org>


Operation Safe Haven's is a transitional housing program where we train 
volunteers to open their homes and provide shelter and support services 
to evacuees and victims of disasters. This provides the families with 
the advocacy and support they need to get their lives back on track and 
prevents a huge drain on public dollars. This involves background checks 
of both the host families of the Safe Haven's and the families who will 
be housed at the Safe Haven.

Many of the volunteers who have Safe Haven's assist family members 
through the trauma and rebuilding of their homes.

For more information contact me at 206.240.2241. I have the paperwork I 
can forward upon request.

Cheryl Honey, C.P.P.
Family Support Network, Int'l
(206) 240-2241
www.familynetwork.org
www.communityweaving.org

"The more resourceful we are among ourselves, the more valuable a 
resource we become to our families, our communities and our world."

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> From: "Berkowitz, William" <William_Berkowitz at uml.edu>
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> Do you know any good examples of tools, checklists, stories, or 
> resources related to community disaster recovery?
>
> I’m working as part of a national team that is preparing a manual for 
> community groups on how to plan and implement community disaster 
> recovery efforts. (As contrasted with disaster preparedness.) We are 
> using the term “disaster” broadly; but our focus in this case is on the 
> broader social and community actions that need to be taken after a 
> disaster event, as contrasted with meeting immediate human needs or with 
> physical rebuilding.
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> Our manual draft is nearly complete; but we would like to include some 
> useful illustrative how-to-do-it type materials on how other communities 
> have planned and carried out disaster recovery in practice. If you have 
> any, or know of any, we’d be grateful if you might be able to share them 
> with us and others.
>
> Thanks very much for your help.
>
> ~~ Bill
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> Bill Berkowitz
> Dept. of Psychology
> University of Massachusetts Lowell
> Lowell, MA 01845
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> (978) 934-3655
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> Bill_Berkowitz at uml.edu
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> [ed: interestingly, one of the things I have been hearing in the wake of 
> Katrina is about neighborhood-based disaster preparation as the most 
> important pre-requisite to recovery. In contrast to centralized 
> government and Red Cross models, the neighborhood-based model is built 
> on residents' knowledge of their own neighborhood and neighbors. An 
> interesting example is at 
> http://www.nicasio.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=48. 
> The Institute for Community Based Research at Delta State University is 
> also a good source for new thinking on disaster preparation and 
> recovery--http://ntweb.deltastate.edu/vp_academic/jgreen/New_ICBR_WebPages/index_ICBR.htm]
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