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Developing and testing a community resilience tabletop exercise in Los Angeles County
Methods. This presentation will describe the process of developing a community resilience tabletop, testing four levers of resilience (Chandra et al., 2011)-partnerships, engagement, self-sufficiency, and education. The tabletop was subsequently tested with 8 community coalitions in the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project.
Results. The coalitions provided critical feedback on tabletop design and the scenarios used. Overall, the tabletop afforded an ability for coalitions to determine how well they could activate integrated response and recovery plans, to identify where they did not know what asset a particular organization would offer in response and long-term recovery, and to assess how well their network of organizations reflected all of the key sectors needed for long-term recovery capability.
Conclusions. The tabletop development and exercise process illustrated that it is possible to assess proxy indicators of resilience and stress the networks needed for efficient and effective response and recovery.
Learning Areas:
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programsPublic health or related nursing
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Learning Objectives:
Identify ways to assess proxy indicators of resilience using four levers of community resilience.
Discuss ways to incorporate exercise based methods in assessing resilience in communities.
Keyword(s): Partnerships, Disasters
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have helped to lead the intellectual content of the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project, including leading development of the tabletop exercise.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.