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Community resilience is a measure of the sustained ability of a community to utilise available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations.
Preventing
Whether it’s providing fire safety advice, smoke alarm checks, crime prevention advice or being part of the planning process for major incidents and emergencies, the Avon Community Resilience Team is on hand to help prevent and plan in order that our community is better able to avoid incidents as well as be more resilient to them.
Supporting
We’re ready to assist the Emergency Services when they call upon us to support them with severe weather events, flooding, post-incident clear-up (e.g. burnt vehicles), lowland search, clearing hoarders houses, etc. Our work is wide and varied but our primary objective is to make our community better prepared to deal with incidents as well as prevent them. We do this by working closely with our emergency services.
Helping the vulnerable
In an emergency such as a fire, flood or snow we work with partner organisations across Avon to identify people who may become vulnerable during such events and put systems is place whereby we can help this in our community who are most in need.
Building a strong community
Our aim is to build a team that is truly representative of the diversity that makes Avon the culturally rich area that we see today.
Volunteering helps to break down social barriers and offer people an opportunity to socialise with people from different social and cultural backgrounds.
Engaging
A key part of our role is strengthening the bonds between community residents and the Emergency Services. Being a link between community members and the emergency services – not only in the immediate time period after an incident but also on a day-to-day basis.
Being Prepared
Community resilience is about communities using local resources and knowledge to help themselves during an emergency in a way that complements the local emergency services.
- Are you aware of the risks you and your community might face, eg flooding?
- How can you help yourself and those around you during an emergency?
- What can you do to get involved in emergency planning in your community?
Our community will be better prepared to cope during and after an emergency when everyone works together using their local knowledge. Things like understanding what requirements groups most at need may have in an emergency can make a real difference. Identifying and planning for the risks you may encounter during a severe flood, heat-wave or snowfall could help in reducing the potential impact on you, your family and the wider community.
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