Community Resilience Collaborative Session

Wednesday, November 20^st 2013 6:00 PM

At

Congregation AAA Sfard

1385 E 94th St, Brooklyn, NY 11236

(Bet. Avenue K & L)

 The Case for Collaboration and Community Engagement as Cornerstones for Community Resilience Planning:

·         Building Community Disaster Resilience through Private–Public Collaboration

PLENARY SESSION

·         Residents and Participants break out into working groups to identify gaps  and the top 5 solution sets.

·         Re-group and summarize lessons learned and what are the next steps in the Canarsie Recovery Cycle?

             What can residents do to help themselves?

Discussion of Pilot Project – Canarsie Natural Healing Center / Eco–village Community.

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The goal is to empower our community to collaborate and to build strong community based partnerships to find innovative ways to effectively respond to disasters, rebuild economically stable and resilient communities that are environmentally practical and sustainable