Training for community-led ERC's
Our team is working alongside the East Gippsland Shire Council on a project to facilitate training with community members to operate...
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Building capability and capacity
We've been lucky enough to work with Mornington Peninsula Shire on a couple of occasions as council looks to build its capability and...
Welcome to David Younger
We are lucky to have as part of our broader partner network clinical psychologist and disaster preparedness and recovery expert David...
Meet the RCO team - Laura Buchanan
We're excited to welcome Laura Buchanan to the ResilientCo team this week as a Senior Disaster Resilience Specialist. Laura has more than...
Meet the RCO team - John Deering
The team is pleased to welcome John Deering to the team as a Senior Associate with a focus on crisis management and exercising. John is a...
Valuing social capital in disasters
Professor Daniel Aldrich generously shared his knowledge and research about building social capital and the important role it plays in...
Gannawarra Community Recovery
It was a pleasure for the team to support Gannawarra Shire Council and the Community Recovery Committee in the development of a recovery...
Increasing understanding through exercising
As part of any exercise we run, no matter what the objective, we start and end with a quick survey to gauge understanding and confidence...
Meet the RCO team - Brett Ellis
Name: Brett Ellis Specialty: Resilience building in organisations and communities. Helping others to think outside the square. Bringing...
Designing for your worst-case plausible scenario
When we design exercises for local government and corporate clients, we’re looking for the most plausible, worst case scenario that will...
Meet the RCO team - Kate Siebert
Specialty: Public value in complex and wicked situations. This means it I lean into today’s challenges, and help to design for tomorrow....
Outcomes that matter - mining for emergency management gold
Legislation changes in Victoria are providing the opportunity for Municipal Emergency Management Planning Committees to become truly...
Meet the RCO team - Deborrah Jepsen
Specialty: I turn strategies and ideas into real on the ground projects for communities. With a focus currently in public safety, I work...
The story of Millgrove and building a more resilient community
The Millgrove community in Victoria is in the top 5 most vulnerable communities in the country that is exposed to the threat of...
Meet the RCO team - Tia Baptista
Tia's specialty: I specialise in project management and stakeholder engagement; both firmly grounded within the disaster resilience and...
Meet the RCO team - Mirna Arivalagan
Mirna's specialty: I’m a data and analytics specialist. What this means is that I am able to gather information from various sources and...
Community as active emergency participants
The importance of community knowledge and connection in emergencies came through loud and clear in interviews with Gannawarra Shire...
Surf Coast building on the strengths of the systems in place
We’ve spent a bit of time at the beach recently (kind of literally), working with a couple of very switched on councils keen to...
It's a marathon not a sprint
Reflections from ResilientCo Managing Director Brett Ellis : It’s a marathon not a sprint. I’ve heard those words a lot in the Ganawarra...
Local government in partnership
Recently the ResilientCo team headed out to Colac to conduct a tabletop discussion exercise with the Otway District Emergency Management...
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