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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
www.fweil.com
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
Data Basis:
ca. 6,500 interviews in main Household Survey
ca. 10,000 total interviews, all surveys
ca. 100 interviews with Neighborhood Association Leaders
Ethnographic research with over 200 groups50 Filmed interviews with ca. forty more planned
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
Maps of Flooding & Damage
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
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Mapped from U.S. Geological Survey Data
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Mapped from City of New Orleans Data
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Source: LSU Disaster Recovery Survey
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Data Collection Challenges
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
www.fweil.com
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We have Partnered with lots of Organizations
in Conducting Surveys (some listed)
7th Ward Neighborhood Center DeSaix Area Neighborhood Association LouisianaRebuilds.info RALLY Foundation
Acorn, Baton Rouge Desire Area Residents CouncilLower 9th Ward NBH Empowerment
Network Assn Rand
Acorn, New Orleans Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana Lutheran Disaster Response Red Cross, New Orleans
Amer ican Red Cross Fai th Temple Church of God The Holy Ghost
Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church &
CDC Red Cross, St. Bernard Parish
Backbeat Foundation, Inc Family Road of GBR Mater Dolorosa Church Renaissance Village Council
Bard College FEMA McKendall Estates Homeowners Assoc. Roots of Music
Bayou Interfaith Shared Community
Organizing First Baptist Church of Houma
Miracle Faith Healing and Deliverance
Temple Save the Children USA
Beacon of Hope Resource Center Freret Neighborhood Center Mount Nebo Bible Baptist Church Second Gretaer Mount Sinai MBC
Broadmoor Development Corporation Genti ll y Civic Improvement Assoc iation Mt. Ararat Miss ionary Bapt is t Church Shi r Chadash Synagogue
Broadmoor Improvement Association Gert Town Enterprise Econ Redevelopment Neighborhoods Partnership Network Spring Lake Neighborhood Association
Campus-Community Partnerships, Tulane Gert Town Revival Intiative Neighbors United Association St. Dominic Catholic Church
Capital Area Human Services District GNOCDC - GNO Community Data Center New Orleans Bible Fellowship B.C. St. Gabriel the Archangel in New Orleans
Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans GNO Fair Housing Action Center HousingN.O. Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task
Force St. Louis King of France Catholic Church
Catholic Charities Hands On Baton Rouge New Orleans Times-Picayune St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church
Catholic Communtiy Services Hands On New Orleans New Orleans United Way St. Paul AME Church
Central Carrollton Association Harmony Outreach Services NOLA YURP Initiative St. Peter Claver Catholic Church
Central City Partnership Hollygrove Neighbors NOLACPP, Citizen Participation Project Sugar Hill FEMA Trailer Park
Central City Renaissance Alliance Holy Cross Neighborhood Association Nonprofit Central Sweet Home New Orleans
Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana - Metairie Institute of Southern Jewish Life Northshore Jewish Congregation Temple Sinai
Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana - Uptown Jeremiah Group Operation Brother's Keeper [Red Cross] Touro Synagogue
Christian Unity Baptist Church Jericho Road Operation Nehemiah Terrebonne Readiness Assistance Coalition
Churches Supporting Churches Jewish Family Service Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church Trinity Christian Community
City-Works Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans Oxfam America United Jewish Communities
Claiborne-University Neighborhood Assn Jewish W omen's Archive Plymouth Rock Baptist Church United Methodist Hope Ministries
Community Center of St. Bernard Katrina Aid Today
PNOLA: The Phoenix of N.O.
(Tulane/Gravier)
United Way for the Greater New Orleans
Area
Concordia LLC Kids with Cameras Policy Link Urban Conservancy + Stay Local!
Congregation Anshe Sphard Lakeview Civic Im provem ent Association Pontilly Neighborhood Association Ursuline Academ y
Congregation Beth Israel Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Orgs PRC Compassion WWOZ
Congregation Gates of Prayer Louisiana Delta Service Corps [Americorps] Providence Community Housing Hurricane Response, Renaissance Vi llage
Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church Louisiana Family Recovery Corps PuentesYoung Men Olympians Social Aid & Pleasure
Club
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Images of Data Collection:
Pontchartrain Park & Gentilly Woods (Pontilly),
January 2008
We worked with the Pontilly Neighborhood Association, who brought in 40 law
student volunteers from around the country. We went door-to-door with them,
doing the survey, and shared the results with the community.
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Images of Data Collection:
Interviewing Door-to-Door
in Tremé and the Seventh Ward, Summer 2009
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Images of Data Collection:
Young Men Olympians Social Aid & Pleasure Club
(Central City), January 2009
We worked with the Young Men Olympians, the oldest Social Aid & Pleasure
Club, celebrating its 125th anniversary, and student volunteers from New Orleans
colleges. We shared a meal & danced to the Free Agents Brass Band.
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Images of Data Collection:
Interviewing with the Vietnamese-language
Questionnaire at a Respondent’s Homein Village De l’Est, Summer 2009
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Images of Data Collection:
Renaissance Village, FEMA Trailer Park, July 2007
We worked with the resident leaders of Renaissance Village, served a
Jambalaya dinner, brought in a New Orleans brass band … and
conducted the survey with the help of 30 resident volunteers.
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Hypotheses About Recovery:
Individual and Collective Resources
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
www.fweil.com
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Hypotheses: Individual & Collective Resources
and Recovery
Individual-Level Resources
Yes No
Collective
Resources(Social Capital)
Yes
High level of Recovery.High to Medium level of
Recovery.
e.g. Jewish communitye.g. Vietnamese community;
SAPC members
No
High to Medium level ofRecovery.
Low level of Recovery.
e.g. Renaissance Vil lage
(Rare: High Individual-Level
Resources usually permitformation of CollectiveResources, as needed)
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Hypotheses: Storm Damage, Resources, and Recovery:
Individual & Collective Paths to Hurricane Recovery
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Individual-Level Data Analyses
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
www.fweil.com
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Individual Level Regressions:Social Capital, Higher Social Status, Low Damage, & Resources Promote
Recovery and reduce Negative Outcomes.
Stay orReturnto N.O.
PersonalRecovery Stress
Depressed,Anxious Hopeful
SocialSolidarity
SocialConflict
State ofHealth
SpiritualTheology
PunitiveTheology
Demographic
Age .08** -.01 .01 .03* -.02 .05** -.08** -.13** -.01 -.05**
Female .04** -.01 .14** .11** .03+ .02 -.03* -.01 .07** -.02
Education .01 .00 -.02 .09** .03 -.01 -.05** .16** -.09** -.13**
Estimated Income -.01 .11** -.08** -.04+ -.04* -.06** -.03 .14** -.03+ .01
Unemployed -.07** -.11** .08** .06** -.04* -.03* .03* -.05* .00 .03
Married w Children .00 .01 .01 .01 .00 .04* -.02 .01 .01 -.01
Black .09** -.07** -.14** -.19** .03+ .04** -.05** -.07** .21** -.03Time since Katrina .07** .07** -.02 -.03 -.02 .03+ .07** -.01 .01 -.03+
Damage & Resources
Damage to Residence -.13** -.33** .12** .11** .00 -.01 .00 -.04+ .01 .05**
Damage to Business -.08** -.07** .02 .03+ .00 .00 -.02 -.05* -.01 .06**
Have Resources for Repair .08** .23** -.13** -.09** .08** .04* -.03* .12** -.01 -.04**
Social Capital
Associational Involvement .05+ .02 -.08** -.04+ .02 .07** .03 .03 .10** .00
Civic Leadership .02 -.01 .10** .08** .04 .06** .11** .00 -.02 .09**
Informal Socializing -.03 .03+ -.02 -.02 .01 .09** .01 .17** .03+ -.04*
Social Trust .11** .04** -.14** -.13** .14** .19** -.08** .03 .03+ -.12**
Faith-Based Social Capital
Church service attendance -.05** -.03+ -.06** -.11** -.04* .00 -.02 -.01 .24** -.10**
Spiritual Theology .07** -.01 .09** .08** .20** .37** .08** .02 - -
Punitive Theology -.05** -.04** .24** .15** -.07** -.03+ .27** -.06** - -
Adj R-Sq .08 .30 .20 .13 .08 .24 .14 .20 .16 .06
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Individual Level: Social Capital Reduces Stress:
Church Attendance is most effective
20%
40%
60%
80%
No flood damage Up to 8 feet Over 8 feet
Angry
Attend Church Every Week Less
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
No flood damage Up to 8 feet Over 8 feet
Trouble concentrating
Attend Church Every Week Less
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
In Partnership with New Orleans Community Leaders(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Total Number of interviews = ca. 6,500
Comparison of Selected Groups
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
www.fweil.com
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Civic Engagement in
Selected Social Groups
-10%
-5%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
FEMA
Trailers
Vietnamese Black Church
Member
White High Income High
Education
Jewish SAPC
Member
Civic Engagement in Selected Social Groups(Showing percentage points above or below New Orleans average)
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Aggregate Data Analyses
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
www.fweil.com
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With a large enough N (ca. 6,500), we can aggregate (average)
data to geographical districts and conduct aggregate analyses.We use the finest (smallest) district size we can, consistent with reliable averages per district.
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Source: Valassis & Greater New
Orleans Community Data Center
Repopulation Data (from Postal deliveries)
Can be analyzed with our aggregated survey data.
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Blight Data (from the City of New Orleans)
Can be analyzed in the same way.
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For instance, Church Membership
Is associated with Reduced Violent Crime
Survey Data (N = 2,648) & Police Reports, Aggregated to Neighborhood Level (N = 62)
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Aggregate Level:
Social Capital and Higher Social Status promote
Repopulation and reduce Negative Outcomes.
-.60 -.40 -.20 .00 .20 .40 .60
Pct Black
Disadvantage Index
Income
Education
Social Trust
Attended a club meeting
Perform ServiceCivic Leadership
Associational Involvement
Correlations
Damage Blight Crime
-.40 -.20 .00 .20 .40
Pct Black
Disadvantage Index
Income
Education
Social Trust
Attended a club meeting
Perform ServiceCivic Leadership
Associational Involvement
Correlations
Repopulation
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Aggregate Level:
Faith-Based Social Capital is associated with Negative Outcomes
(under-population, damage, blight), but reduces Crime.
-.40 -.30 -.20 -.10 .00 .10 .20 .30 .40
Crime
Blight
Damage
Repopulation
Correlations
Member of Church Faith-Based Engagement
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Aggregate Level:
Church Membership’s Effect on Reducing Violent Crime:
1. Bivariate Correlations
Factors Influencing Violent Crime in New Orleans, 2007-2008
Survey Data (N = 2,677) & Police Reports, Aggregated to (consolidated) Neighborhood Level (N = 62)
Combined Rate Murder Rate Assault Rate
(Survey N=2,677) (Survey N=2,677) (Survey N=2,677)
All White Black All White Black All White Black
Networks
Associational Involvement -.430** -.245 -.346* -.291* .119 -.210 -.434** -.285 -.346*
Civic Leadership -.389** -.262 -.291 -.185 .024 -.036 -.414** -.287 -.331Informal Socializing -.146 -.259 .124 .032 -.088 .336 -.182 -.265 .048
Trust
Social Trust -.645** -.535** -.491** -.514** -.331 -.351* -.630** -.522** -.475**
Inter-Racial Trust -.272* -.010 -.110 -.347** -.122 -.271 -.231 .010 -.051
Faith-Based
Are/Were Member of Church -.337** -.456* -.593** -.213 -.137 -.433* -.344** -.470* -.571**
Faith-Based Engagement -.184 -.240 -.606** .016 .113 -.271 -.224 -.279 -.634**
Status
Education -.657** -.363 -.439** -.619** -.370 -.456** -.616** -.330 -.383*
Income -.590** -.465* -.403* -.555** -.246 -.501** -.554** -.461* -.327
Unemployed Now .507** .213 .414* .457** .323 .342* .481** .176 .387*
Disadvantage Index .794** .658** .730** .667** .686** .551** .766** .595** .698**
Family
Married with Children -.552** -.507** -.563** -.434** -.074 -.493** -.542** -.537** -.518**
Percent Age 15-24 .292* .060 .264 .259* .144 .195 .279* .040 .254
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Aggregate Level:
Church Membership’s Effect on Reducing Violent Crime:
2. Standard Multivariate Regressions
Factors Influencing Violent Crime in New Orleans, 2007-2008
Survey Data (N = 2,677), Census 2000 Data, and Police Reports
Aggregated to Consolidated Neighborhood (N = 62) or Tract (N = 120) Level
Violent Crime Murder Rate
NBH Level Tract Level
(Model number) 2 15 6 10
Disadvantage Index .694** .771** .561** .521**
Pct Black -.015 .417* .242+
Associational Involvement .002 .132
Civic Leadership -.137
Social Trust -.067 .163
Attended a club meeting -.361** -.271**
Church Member .021 .014 -.150+ .094
Married with Children -.070Age 15-24 -.019
Church Member x Race Interaction -.415* -.377*
Adjusted R-Sq .613 .649 .410 .415
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Aggregate Level:
Church Membership’s Effect on Reducing Violent Crime:
3. Spatial Regressions
Factors Influencing Violent Crime in New Orleans, 2007-2008
Survey Data (N = 2,677), Census 2000 Data, and Police Reports
Aggregated to Consolidated Neighborhood (N = 62) or Tract (N = 120) Level
Best Regression Models, Testing for Spatial Auto-correlation: t-Statistics or z-values
Violent Crime Murder Rate
NBH Level Tract Level
Combined Rate Murder Rate
1 2 1 2
Constant 3.627** 2.480* 4.966** 2.674**
Spatial Lag - 1.726+ - 7.374**
Disadvantage Index 6.790** 7.018** 5.111** 3.856**
Percent Black 2.575* 2.892** 1.697+ 1.549Attended a Club Meeting -3.069** -2.600**
Church Member .178 .569 .264 1.077
Church Member x Race Interaction -2.266* -2.641** -2.595* -1.881+
Adj or Pseudo R-Sq .651 .683 .422 .564
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Partnerships: “Social Action” Research
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
www.fweil.com
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The Neighborhoods Partnership Network (NPN)A nonprofit, citywide network of neighborhoods.
We are collaborating on an organizational survey with NPN,
and creating a multi-level data set.
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The Neighborhoods Partnership Network (NPN):Data Collection as of June, 2010
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Analyses for “Sweet Home New Orleans:”Where did Musicians from Flooded Areas Move?
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Analyses for “Sweet Home New Orleans:”Musicians have a harder time Earning a Living
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The “Roots of Music”
After-school music program for middle school kids.Social Action Research: Building social capital for the kids and their families,
while conducting our survey of their parents.
Organizing meeting at Café du Monde
during JazzFest, 2008. Derrick Tabb, at right, Program
Director & snare drummer for the Rebirth Brass Band.
Mardi Gras, February, 2010.
We marched in 5 top parades & the Saints
victory parade, and played at Jazzfest.
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Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans:Where did people from Flooded Areas Move?
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Vietnamese and Jewish Community Leaders
Comparing Notes on Recovery Strategies.Item: It’s not all “Culture.” Lots of it is Strategy and Planning that others can adapt.
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NOLA YURP (Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals) “Brain Gain:”
Where are they from?New Young Leader survey recently (2010) completed with “504ward”
N=426. Data collected summer, 2008.
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Collaboration with LouisianaRebuilds.Info:Surveys of Contractor Fraud throughout southern Louisiana
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Adding a Documentary Film to the StudyRick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
www.fweil.com
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Some of the people and groups
We have filmed and plan to film
7th Ward
Abram Himelstein, Rachel Breunlin, Neighborhood Story
Project, the Porch
Allison Plyer, GNOCDC - Greater New Orleans
Community Data Center
Arlene Barron, Leslie Fishman, Jewish Community Center
Audrey Browder, Central City Partnership & Pontilly
Disaster Recovery Center
Bobby Garon, Alan Bissinger, Michael Wasserman, &
Julie Wise Oreck, Jewish Federation of GNO
Capacity College, NPN
Capacity College, NPN
Capacity College, NPNChalmette Tomato Festival, OLPS
Cheryl Diggins, Melia
City Council Mtg, Master Plan, Dist B
Clients, Sweet Home New Orleans
Dena Gerber, Jewish Family Service
Denise Thornton, Tina Ma rquardt, Connie Uddo, Milissa
Orzolek, Beacons of Hope/St. Paul's Homecoming
Center
Derrick Tabb, Roots of Music, various
Derrick Tabb, Roots of Music: NOMTOC Par ade
Derrick Tabb, Roots, Parading in Neighborhoods to
Recruit & show need
Diem Nguyen, Mary Tran, Mary Queen of Vietnam CDC
Erich Sternberg & Richard Lipsey, Jewish Federation of
Greater BR
Erin Patton, family were caterers in Chalmette
Fr. Vien, Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church
Gert Town
Gill Benedek, Moishe House
Gill Benedek, Neighborhood Partnership Network
Glenn Stoudt, Al Petrie, Lakeview Community
Improvement Association
Greg Phares, former EBR Sheriff
Harrison Ave Marketplace, Lakeview
Hubert Dixon (others), The Porch
Iray Nabatoff, Community Center of St. Bernard
Jennifer Weishaupt, Jennifer Farwell, Mid-City
Neighborhood Organization (MCNO)
Jessica White, Barbara Johnson, 504ward
Joe Sherman, Carol Dotson, Hollygrove
John Koeferl, Holy Cross NA
Jordan Hirsch, Sweet Home New Orleans
Katherine Prevost, Bunny Friends NA
Kevin Brown, Evelyn Turner, Trinity Christian Community
- Hollygrove
LANO
LaToya Cantrell, Hal Roark, Broadmoor Improvement
Association
LimmudFest - Main day, Jewish Community
Lisa Smith, Unmet Needs Committee, Red Cross
LJ Goldstein, Renee Heinlein, David Freedman, Jewish
Community
LJ Goldstein, Renee Heinlein: Seder planning, Krewe du
Jieux
Loren Pickford, Musician, Sweet Home Client
Mardi Gras Indians, I, Dryades & 2nd, Central City, MGDay
Mardi Gras Indians, II, St Joseph's Day
Mardi Gras Indians, III, Background w Harrison family
Mary LeBlanc, Arcenia Crayton, & Wilbert Ross,
Renaissance Village
Mary W Rowe, New Orleans Institute, City-Works
Meg Lousteau, VCPORA (French Quarter)
Membership and/or Committee Mtgs, Broadmoor
Improvement Association
Membership and/or Committee Mtgs, Jewish Federationof GNO
Membership Mtg, Lakeview Community Improvement
Association
Nonprofit Central in NOLA
Purim, Uptown Jewish Community C enter
Ray Nichols, Gonzo Civic Volunteer
Rev. Danny C. Digal, Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church
Rita LeGrand, Lakeview Blight inspections &
enforcement
Ronald Baptiste, McKendall Estates Homeowners Assn
Saundra Reed, Keisha Brown Robinson, Central City
Renaissance AllianceSeabrook Neighborhood Association
Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, Second Line Parade
(Sundays)
Steven Bingler, Concordia - Nexus tour of French Quarter
Steven Bingler, Concordia - sit-down interview
Tamara Jackson, SAPC Task Force Peace March
Tamara Jackson, Social Aid & Pleasure Club Task Force
Tet Vietnamese New Year celebration, Mary Queen of
Vietnam Catholic Church
Timolynn Sams, Neighborhood Partnership Network
Tony Fernandez, St Bernard Deputy Sheriff & Parish
President OLPS
Victor Gordon, C lara Carey, King W ells Sr., Pontilly
Association
YMO, 9Times, Prince of Wales, Social Aid & Pleasure
Clubs
Youth Think Tank, Work with Audrey at Central City
Partnership
Zack Rosenburg, St. Bernard Project
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
www.fweil.com
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Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 1
• Increasing organizational capacity and
autonomy.
– Use of Committees, Block Captains, etc.
– Doing own Data Collection.
– New technologies, like Mapping, Data Bases.
– Use of Volunteers.
– Taking the initiative and not waiting for outsidehelp.
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Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 2
• Greater strategic sophistication.
– Creating “Critical Masses” or “Tipping Points”
– Branding
– Community planning
• E.g., Broadmoor, Vietnamese, Jews
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Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 3
• Increasing citizen participation. – People who had never participated before
• A newCooperative
Orientationamongcommunityleaders – 91% of
Neighborhood
leaders affirmedthat relationswith otherleaders arecooperative
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
There are other
neighborhood
organizations whose
roles overlap with your
organization
See your relationships
with other
neighborhood groups as
cooperative, rather than
competitive
Your organization
compares activities and
strategies with
organizations in other
neighborhoods, in order
to learn from each
others’ experiences
Relations among Neighborhood Associations
(N = 56)
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Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 4
• Emergence of new Umbrella Groups fromoutside the organizational eco-system theywork with
–
Convening Groups. – Find areas of
common concern on
which they can work
together.
– Find synergies on
issues that would
otherwise produce
competition/conflict.
– Learn from each
other. Barbara Lacen Keller teaching NPN’s Capacity College
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Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 5
• New recovery resources from “Outside-inside”the community
– Extra-Regional, National, & International
assistance from within the communities – Vietnamese Community
• Houston & West Bank Neighbors
– Jewish Community
• National & Baton Rouge organizations
– Cultural Community
• Assistance to Musicians from Musicians
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Community Strategies and Resources
for Recovery 6
• New forms of Philanthropy
– Traditional:
• Paternalism & Deference
– Modern/Managerial:• Expertise & Efficiency
– New:
•
Treats recipients as partners, equals• Aims to build autonomy & self-sufficiency
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Cautions and Implications for
Future Policy and Actions 1
• Lower and middle- status citizens must be
able to overcome elite resistance to their
participation.
– Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs as Community Leaders
Prince of WalesSocial Aid &
Pleasure Club
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Cautions and Implications for
Future Policy and Actions 2
• Citizens must overcome governmentresistance to their participation, as well asavoid being “captured” by government.
–
New “hardball” tactics:• Broadmoor’s Plan
• Vietnamese Landfill issue
– Sharing new techniques:
• “Capacity College”
– Avoiding Government “Capture:”
• Autonomy of Neighborhood Associations
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Cautions and Implications for
Future Policy and Actions 3
• Communities must find ways to sustain
participation beyond the euphoric period of
recovery, into the more mundane tasks of
further improvement that are often moretechnical rather than popular in nature.
– Issue of Expertise & Leadership
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LSU Post-Katrina Surveys
in Baton Rouge:Impact on the Community;
Helping cope with the Disaster(supported by NSF)
Total Interviews = 2,960 in 3 waves:
•September 27 to November 29, 2005 (N=1,349)
•February to April, 2006 (N=1,008)
•March to April, 2007 (N=603)
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Half the households in Baton Rouge housed Evacuees
… almost entirely relatives and friends.
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
Oct-2005 Feb-2006 Jun-2006 Oct-2006 Feb-2007
Evacuees Staying in Your Residence
Staying Now Stayed Earlier No One
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Total Staying Friends &
Relatives
Others
*Multiple mentions possible
Whom Did People House?*
Total Staying Relatives Friends Others
Factoid: Southern Louisiana has some of the densest social networks in America.Question:
•Where would disaster evacuees have gone if this had happened some other place?
•Hint: The Authorities would have to figure that out…
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Two thirds of people in Baton Rouge did
volunteer relief work – most more than once.
Most of them volunteered with Religious Organizations.
No
34%
Once
12%
More than
Once
54%
Did Volunteer work to Help Evacuees
None
37%
Worked, but
not w Church
30%
Once with
Church
7%
More than
Once with
Church
24%
No answer
2%
Did Volunteer work to Help Evacuees -
with Religious Organization
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Social Capital and StressPeople with the best social networks were initially most
stressed because they were most involved in relief work.
They also recovered the fastest.
-0.3
-0.2
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
Aug-00 Dec-01 May-03 Sep-04 Feb-06 Jun-07
Afraid to Walk Alone at Night
-0.2
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
Jul-05 May-06 Mar-07
Feel Depressed, AngryLegend
Associational
Involvement
Civic
Leadership
Faith-Based
Engagement
Informal
Socializing
Social Trust
Inter-RacialTrust
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LSU Post-Katrina Researchon Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience
(Supported by the National Science Foundation)
Rick Weil
Department of Sociology, LSU
www.fweil.com