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Partnering for Climate Conversations
We're proud to partner with the City of Port Phillip and The Resilience Canopy to support communities to plan for and thrive in the face of future shocks and stresses as part of their Climate Ready Communities Project. As part of the collaboration, last week 25 wonderful community members, leaders, council representatives and others committed to supporting their communities completed The Resilience Canopy-facilitated training. Already, a couple of the newly trained practition


Proudly partnering - Divided We Fall
ResilientCo is a proud partner and co-founder of new national charity The Resilience Canopy, which officially launched on May 1 with an...


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. Our team and Clinical Psychologist David Younger delivered the first session of this targeted training for Campaspe Shire Council recently. The workshop, called Emergencies & You: Emotional Preparedness for Local Government links emergency management operational responsibilities with applying the principles of emotional preparedness whilst incorporating stress, mind-body science and trauma expo


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 the affected community. It assists in the development of detailed, evidence-based recovery planning. The Wimmera Municipal Emergency Management Planning Committee (MEMPC) recently engaged ResilientCo to deliver a SIA training program that covered: Victorian EM Arrangements SIA purpose and functions SIA roles and responsibilities Caring f


"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 inaugural Emergency Relief Centre training. The sessions, held in Clarendon (in partnership with Moorabool Shire Council) and Stawell (in partnership with Northern Grampians Shire Council) included an Introduction to Emergency Relief session, followed by a training exercise with full ERC set up, agency participation and role-playing by partic


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...
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