Get $1.4 Million to Help Communities Withstand and Recover from Disaster

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Local leaders can get $1.4 million to help their community prepare for, withstand, and recover from disasters, thanks to a new two-year grant opportunity from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

The new grant aims to help community leaders and researchers create “resilient communities.”

Resilient communities can anticipate and adapt to unexpected challenges, like the recent devastating hurricanes in Texas and Puerto Rico.

hurricane-harvey-1Disasters cause damage from infrastructure to the local economy. They also impact institutionalized discrimination, access to healthcare, and mental health issues and stress. For example, Texas leaders formed a task force to respond to mental health issues in schools impacted by Hurricane Harvey.

How prepared is your community for an emergency?

“What are you doing to make your community more resilient? We want to test new ways of developing good physical and mental health, community cohesiveness, as well as social, emotional, and economic well-being. These qualities are crucial to have in place for a community to absorb and rebound from trauma,” according to according to an RWJF blog post about the grant opportunity.

The new funding would enable local community leaders—who are interested in designing and implementing rigorous resilience research—to generate evidence that can inform their own decision-making about policies and projects needed to build resilience in their community.

It also would help researchers apply their analytic capabilities to community-identified challenges.

“Future disasters will inevitably come,” according to the RWJF blog post. “By advancing the science and practice of resiliency, our hope is that the level of suffering experienced by Puerto Rico will remain a thing of the past.”

Apply here for the grant by April 11, 2018.

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