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Team reflections on the year that was
We thank our clients, partners and colleagues for trusting us to support them this year. Laura Buchanan, Senior Resilience Specialist I...


Addressing a gap: emotional preparedness in emergency management
Training that focuses on emotional preparedness as well as emergency management. Michelle Richards and Clinical Psychologist David...


Co-Designing for Campaspe Shire
We are pleased to be supporting Campaspe Shire Council in a project to build its capacity in the operation of emergency relief centres...


Climate Change and Emergency Management
Climate change presents an evolving challenge for governments, organisations and communities. Climate-related hazards often lead to...


Training in Secondary Impact Assessment
Municipal Secondary Impact Assessment (SIA) is the important process undertaken by Councils to determine the impact of an emergency on...


"We're All In This Together"
Our Managing Director Brett Ellis presented at the New South Wales Rural Fire Service community engagement and fire awareness conference...


Building Capability and Capacity
We recently concluded a detailed program of work over three years to enhance the capability and capacity of Gannawarra Shire Council’s...


From Recovery to Resilience
This project focussed on lessons learned in recovery to better prepare communities in resilience


Emergency resilience planning
Facilitated workshops designed for community flood planning in caravan parks


Resilience Canopy 2023 reflections
ResilientCo Managing Director Brett Ellis reflects on The Resilience Canopy: I've been asked a few times what makes The Resilience Canopy...


Kindness in resilience
Rebecca Jones, our New South Wales regional manager, recently found herself reflecting on importance of being kind and why it absolutely...


Wrap Up: Community-led ERC Training
Building the capacity of communities to respond to and recover from disasters is central to what we do at ResilientCo. We’ve recently...


Becoming DisasterSmart (or DisasterSmarter)
Are you DisasterSmart? Competing priorities and a never ending to-do list can make it hard to focus on planning for emergencies (until...


Grampians Emergency Relief Centre Training
Over November the team had the privilege of working with many of the Councils throughout the Grampians region, delivering ResilientCo's...


Building capacity for Community-led Relief Centres
Recently we had the pleasure of kicking off the first session to support the East Gippsland Shire Council in recruiting and training...

Increasing the focus on climate-related risk
Climate change presents an increasing challenge for communities across Australia. The uncertainty surrounding the magnitude, timing, and...


Scaling Community Resilience Building through partnerships
ResilientCo Managing Director Brett Ellis outlines the opportunity with the development of The Resilience Canopy in this article. In the...


Introducing The Resilience Canopy
ResilientCo is proud to be a founding partner of The Resilience Canopy. Alongside partners Minderoo Foundation and Resilient Cities...


Presenting at the Australian Disaster Resilience Conference
Our team had the opportunity to present a poster at the Australian Disaster Resilience Conference in August telling the story of the...


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...
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