Welcome

Welcome

New Orleans, 2007 Back to the FutureMayor Ed Lee

Lessons from KatrinaHarvard Kennedy School says Communities must be able toNurture capable local leadership that can drive rapid, substantive actionFocus on inclusiveness and embrace self-reliance Achieve the ability to seek out and interface successfully with outside sources of help (government, foundations, universities, corporations, NGOs )Be able to evolve & adapt as challenges arise by developing new skills and capacities

The Goal for The Community and Recovery

For the City and County of San Francisco to recover from a major hazard in an expedited manner, as well as have as many pre-event residents, and communities, as part of the re-constituted City populous as possible.Meanwhile in small town called San Francisco.In SF, the underlying issuesIssue is by nature - negativeThere is no hard event windowSan Francisco has a unique situationUnstable social capital environmentAcquiring complete skill set is difficult

Empowering Communities to be their best...The NEN UniverseGovernment AgenciesAcademic Institutions

Neighborhood Groups Residents Non-Government OrganizationsExecutive / Legislative BranchThe NEN Empowered Communities Program is an asset based organizing initiative that supports communities as they leverage hyper local problem solving to build strong sustainable cross sector working relationships with both local and regional stakeholders.

Make resilience approachable

Make resilience about function

Introduction of ECP Opportunity Event April 3, 2013Resilience Action Plan Launch Event - July 28th, 2013

Engage key neighborhood stakeholdersCreate cross sector program planning committeeCapacity BuildingInventory and Prioritized Goals& Develop Vision Statement for the Communitys Performance in times of stressEstablish Performance Goals by Functional Area:EducationHealthEconomicUtilitiesPublic SafetySocial / CulturalDisaster PrepEnvironmentalCreate a CommunityEstablish Goals and VisionAction Plan Creation & ImplementationCreate Action Plan &Governance Model & Implementation Strategy &Develop Neighborhood Center

Create Working GroupsSet time table for meetingsDevelop Unifying Vision for ResilienceIncrease trust amongst participantsEmphasize Cultural Competence Prioritize goals by audienceMap assets, resources and networksMerge working groups data into one document Create an organizational model for implementation of the planEstablish metricsCraft action plans for times of stressAdvocate for investments that will mitigate the impact of an event

Host Action Plan Launch Event Convene Working Groups:Families & KidsSmall BusinessSeniors &People Living with DisabilitiesImmigrant CommunitiesResilient Bayview Action Plan DevelopmentThe ECP Resiliency CouncilLibraryNon ProfitMerchantResiliency Council Steering CommitteeFoundationElected OfficialFaith BasedCity AgencyAcademic Institution / University / CollegeThe ECP Resiliency CouncilHow data is being collected, shared and leveragedDataSFSF FIND.infoCommunity Resilience Indicator ProjectStreetwise

Our City - Ready for Anything

Back to the Future, again.