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4 Developing a Decision-Making Framework
4 Developing a Decision-Making Framework
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Tables with key points from each group's discussion can be found in Appendix A Group One: Vulnerable Communities The Vulnerable Communities breakout group began with the approach of trying to identify components as specific socially vulnerable groups, such as seniors, children, racial and ethnic minorities, lowincome populations, non-English speakers, the homeless, the medically dependent, mobility impaired, persons in nursing homes, and persons with drug addictions.
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. Vulnerable Populations -- factors that capture special needs of individuals and groups, related to com s s s mpo nen such as min nts nority status, heealth issues, mobility, and so cioeconomic status m Crit tical and Enviro onmental Infras structure -- the ability of critical and environme a ental infrastruct ture to recover from eveents, componen may include water and sew nts e wage, transport tation, power, ccommunications and natural i s, infra stru ucture Soc Factors -- fa cial actors that enhhance or limit a community's a ability to recove including co er, omponents suc as ch soc capital, edu cial ucation, langua age, governanc financial stru ce, uctures, culture and workforc e, ce Bui Infrastructur ilt re -- the ability of built infrastructure to with hstand impacts of disasters -- s -- including com mpo nen such as hos nts spitals, local government, em mergency respo onse facilities, schools, home and busines es sses, brid dges, and roads A modera and rappor ator rteur facilitated and recorded the discussions Each group w provided a workflow sche t s.
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For communication needs, four goals were identified: Develop flexibility in the community's communication systems to deal with uncertain events Have alternative means of communication/redundancy in the community's systems to provide in formation to vulnerable populations in case main systems are inoperable Develop a network of translators who could reach out to people with special communication needs Implement training for organizations/community groups to address special communication needs Overall, the group felt that the table was a useful mechanism to begin the process of developing an approach to identify vulnerable populations in a community, articulating the needs of those populations, and developing objectives for meeting those needs. Although time constraints did not allow participants to identify specific measures and indicators, the process was an entry point to moving towards that end goal.
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Besides the term "environmental," other major points of discussion included what resilience means for communities and the role of jurisdictional domains in terms of who controls critical infrastructure. Infrastructure related to energy and communication is often held by private sector entities, which raised many questions about how to account and embed that infrastructure into the resilience process.
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There are formal and informal connections among businesses, government, and community organizations, group members observed, which are necessary in building social cohesion across a community. Resourcefulness was also a key component, particularly in reference to workforce in sectors such as healthcare, emergency services, and the private sector.
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26 Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience: Summary of a Workshop cohesive a community will be and how much "buy-in" residents and businesses will have in taking steps to become more resilient. Participation and adoption of key initiatives are indicators of a community's movement towards resilience, but the community also needs to identify short- and long-term actions to ensure that they are making progress in building resilience.
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