“Not everything that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
—James Baldwin
What is Resilience?
Resilience describes the capacity of communities to function, so that the people living and working in a community – particularly the poor and vulnerable – survive and thrive no matter what stresses or shocks they encounter.
Leadership Team
Stakeholder (coming soon)
Community Events (coming soon)
The map below show the Area of Concern for the Resilience-Guadalupe plan. The green outline reflects the City’s Census Tract and the Community Resilience Leadership Team are using the area has a starting point. With community input this area may change.
Resources:
Reading List:
- Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery
Author: Daniel P. Aldrich - Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval
Editor: Daniel Lerch - Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
Author: Eric Klinenberg - The Resilience Dividend
Author: Judith Rodin