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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


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...


NEW TRAINING: wellbeing in emergencies
We’ve developed a new training session with disaster recovery expert and clinical psychologist David Younger. This one is specifically...


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


Quick lessons in Crisis Leadership
In the past two years, ResilientCo has worked with over 25 local government authorities and organisations to build their approaches to...


Unpacking roles and responsibilities
The team is having a great time working with the Barwon Coast Committee of Management on an Emergency Management Review and Training Program. It recently kicked off with a desktop training exercise which focussed on current risks and climate projections and provided an overview of operational plans across four caravan park sites. It included an overview of the roles, responsibilities and resources of the emergency management team and finished with a scenario-based learning mo


Returning to East Gippy
We’re pleased to be heading back to East Gippsland to continue the roll out of training in community-led emergency relief centres alongside East Gippsland Shire Council . This local government area and multiple communities within it have been through big disasters. They have a lot to share in the work they have done since the 2019-20 fires, and collectively are focussed on continuous improvement and forward thinking preparation. We’ve been fortunate to support Council and c


Providing care during emergencies
We’ve been working closely with the team at Healthy North Coast to develop and deliver training to Primary Health Care Providers to...


Is it a crisis? If you have to ask...
We've been working with local government to deliver Crisis Management Leadership Training to executive teams to provide: Role clarity for...


Nobody panic!
Leading in a crisis can be tough. In local government, examples of this could be a disaster, a reputation issue, an organisation issue. ...


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...


Breaking down CREW
The ResilientCo Six-Step Future Ready Communities Model is underpinned by four key community resilience characteristics: connection,...


The Six Step Future Ready Communities Model
At the heart of the ResilientCo Six-Step Future Ready Communities Model is a commitment to empowering communities, assisting them to...
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