Expanding the paradigm of evaluating community benefits in investments in grid resilience utilising a balanced scorecard approach 2025-03-20T19:47:42Z Learn More
Policy Implications for Climate Adaptation in the Context of Nonlinear Impacts and Catastrophic Risks 2024-12-04T21:33:04Z Learn More
The Application of the Resilient Children, Resilient Communities Initiative to Dominica: A Conceptual Overview 2024-12-04T20:21:35Z Learn More
Building Child-Focused Community Resilience Utilizing A Community-based, Multi-modal Educational Approach 2024-09-16T18:55:25Z Learn More
Preparing for compounding crises: Staff shortages and cyber-attack vulnerability in the era of COVID-19 2023-01-23T14:51:42Z Learn More
Remote work and climate change: Considerations for grid resilience in the 21st century 2022-09-23T14:26:01Z Learn More
Establishing a Foundation for Performance Measurement for Local Public Health Preparedness 2021-05-11T14:32:15Z Learn More
Informes Temáticos RCRC: Porqué los Niños Deben Ser la Prioridad #1 en Desastres 2022-04-04T15:04:29Z Learn More
Integrating Data Variability Into Contemporary COVID-19 Decision Support 2021-11-09T22:56:17Z Learn More
Using analytics to support a utility's initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic amid an uncertain evidence base 2021-03-16T17:36:51Z Learn More
America Is on Track for a Million Coronavirus Cases a Day, and at Least 800,000 Deaths, by the End of 2020 Learn More
Initial Coronavirus Disease–2019 Closure Strategies Adopted by a Convenience Sample of US School Districts: Directions for Future Research 2020-06-03T14:12:50Z Learn More
Current Data Gaps in Modeling Essential Worker Absenteeism Due to COVID-19 2020-10-28T18:57:00Z Learn More
A Philanthropic Approach to Supporting Emergent Disaster Response and Recovery 2019-10-21T13:51:35Z Learn More
Chronic Disease After Natural Disasters: Public Health, Policy, and Provider Perspectives 2018-11-27T22:49:21Z Learn More
Creating Resilient Communities for Children Through the Resilient Children/Resilient Communities Initiative (RCRC), coalitions in Arkansas and New York are working to meet the unique needs of children in a disaster. See how these coalitions are engaging the community leaders, institutions and families to make a lasting impact locally while spreading their passion to others across the country. Visit the project … Continue reading “Creating Resilient Communities for Children” Learn More
The SHOREline Project: Youth Empowerment through Project-Based Learning Join us as we learn more about the SHOREline Project from Dr. David Abramson of NYU’s College of Global Public Health and Director of the program on Population Impact, Recovery, and Resiliency (PiR2). The Resilient Children / Resilient Communities Initiative welcomed Dr. Abramson to share how other communities who may be interested in tapping into … Continue reading “The SHOREline Project: Youth Empowerment through Project-Based Learning” Learn More
AECA 2016 Keynote | Children in a Changing Climate: The Importance of Childcare Providers in Disasters Dr. Lori Peek delivers the keynote address to the Arkansas Early Childhood Association (AECA) annual conference in Little Rock, AR. Resilient Children/Resilient Children Initiative (RCRC) project director and NCDP Deputy Director Jeff Schlegelmilch sets the stage by introducing the RCRC Initiative. In her talk, Dr. Peek focuses on the critical role childcare providers may play … Continue reading “AECA 2016 Keynote | Children in a Changing Climate: The Importance of Childcare Providers in Disasters” Learn More
Evolutions in Emergency Management: Maximizing resources through the RCRC Initiative (Part 3 of 3) This emergency management and childcare provider video series highlights 1) the importance of planning for children’s specific and unique needs in an emergency and how those plans build a more resilient community, 2) addresses how this planning gap evolved, and helps us understand the critical nature of bringing emergency management and child-serving institutions to the … Continue reading “Evolutions in Emergency Management: Maximizing resources through the RCRC Initiative (Part 3 of 3)” Learn More
Evolutions in Emergency Management: Partners in Resilience (Part 2 of 3) This emergency management and childcare provider video series highlights 1) the importance of planning for children’s specific and unique needs in an emergency and how those plans build a more resilient community, 2) addresses how this planning gap evolved, and helps us understand the critical nature of bringing emergency management and child-serving institutions to the … Continue reading “Evolutions in Emergency Management: Partners in Resilience (Part 2 of 3)” Learn More
Evolutions in Emergency Management: Prioritizing children on the planning agenda (Part 1 of 3) This emergency management and childcare provider video series highlights 1) the importance of planning for children’s specific and unique needs in an emergency and how those plans build a more resilient community, 2) addresses how this planning gap evolved, and helps us understand the critical nature of bringing emergency management and child-serving institutions to the … Continue reading “Evolutions in Emergency Management: Prioritizing children on the planning agenda (Part 1 of 3)” Learn More
National Opinion Survey Data Release Webinar: Resilient Children/Resilient Communities Initiative As part of the Resilient Children/Resilient Communities Initiative, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness designed and deployed a national survey modeled on prior work through the American Preparedness Project, which collected national data on attitudes and opinions on preparedness. This webinar event recorded on February 9 2016 released the data focused on children in disasters, … Continue reading “National Opinion Survey Data Release Webinar: Resilient Children/Resilient Communities Initiative” Learn More
Anger Versus Fear: Perceptions of Terrorism Among the American Public 2019-05-22T14:53:54Z Learn More
Schools and Terrorism: Global Trends, Impacts, and Lessons for Resilience 2018-08-30T20:36:43Z Learn More
Acts of terrorism and mass violence targeting schools : Analysis and implications for preparedness in the USA 2018-08-30T17:05:37Z Learn More
The American Preparedness Project: Where the US Public Stands in 2015 2018-08-30T21:10:53Z Learn More
Crisis Decision-Making During Hurricane Sandy: An Analysis of Established and Emergent Disaster Response Behaviors in the New York Metro Area 2021-11-10T17:58:02Z Learn More
Superstorm Sandy: Lessons for Optimizing Limited Training Resources for Local Impact 2021-11-10T18:13:44Z Learn More
Growing Up in an Era of Extreme Events 2015-2016 Sustainable Development Seminar Series, “Growing Up in an Era of Extreme Events.” October 7th, 2015 1:00PM-4:00PM EDT As we look back at the last 10 years of extreme events, the response and recovery to Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy and the Ebola Crisis are a few of the many that have tested our disaster preparedness. … Continue reading “Growing Up in an Era of Extreme Events” Learn More
Ebola and the Politics of Pandemic The Earth Institute presented the first 2014-2015 Sustainable Development Seminar Series, Ebola and the Politics of Pandemic, on November 6th. Beyond urgent medical and humanitarian consequences and response demands, the growing Ebola crisis has serious implications for governments, the private sector, and public messengers. This session will explore how money, power, and media affect — … Continue reading “Ebola and the Politics of Pandemic” Learn More
Disaster Prepared: How Federal Funding in the United States Supports Health System and Public Health Readiness 2018-08-30T18:03:38Z Learn More
The Ebola Crisis: What it Means for West Africa & the World The National Center for Disaster Preparedness, in collaboration with the Earth Institute, brought together experts and stakeholders for a timely and educational conference on the Ebola outbreak on October 27th, 2014. This conference facilitated a multi-disciplinary dialogue which will focus on how best to curb the epidemic, understand its impacts—particularly in terms of bioethical and … Continue reading “The Ebola Crisis: What it Means for West Africa & the World” Learn More
