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Supporting Disaster Preparedness in Indigenous Communities
Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately affected by disasters like floods and wildfires. As weather patterns shift and annual disaster seasons become the norm, the effects of climate change on Indigenous communities in Canada are becoming more severe. In 2023, over...
Four Common Gaps in Root Cause Analysis Methods in After Action Reports
Each community disaster is a learning opportunity. As disasters become more frequent, leaders need a system to assess what happened and how to improve. This will help strengthen their disaster preparedness plans for the future. Completing an incident analysis and...
When to Hire an Emergency Preparedness Planning Expert
Emergency preparedness planning is essential for communities as the risk of experiencing disaster increases. Events such as wildfires, flooding, and extreme weather are now regular occurrences in communities across Canada. The continued expansion of industrial...
Disability and Disaster Management
In an emergency, no one should ever be left behind. Emergency response plans must be inclusive and provide strategies for supporting every individual in your community—including those with disabilities. When it comes to disability and disaster management, most of the...
Crisis Leadership During a Community Disaster
Effective leadership during a crisis is multifaceted. The crisis leadership style that works for one type of community may not work for another. This is why emergency management teams must tailor crisis leadership training and guidance to the needs of the people...
Four Barriers to Community Disaster Resilience
Long-term community disaster resilience hinges on effective leadership, teamwork, and project management. In the wake of a disaster, individuals across organizations, levels of government, and industry sectors as well as members of the community itself must work...
What is a Disaster Recovery Framework?
A disaster recovery framework outlines your community’s plans for long-term resilience in the wake of an emergency such as a fire, flood, severe weather, or chemical spill. Disasters disrupt many interconnected parts of a community—from infrastructure to essential...
How to Take a Holistic Approach to Your Disaster Recovery Plan
Emergency preparedness and recovery planning create stronger communities that are more resilient to the impacts of disaster. However, to see the benefits of a disaster recovery plan, emergency managers need to take a holistic approach to their risk assessment,...
What it Means to Build a Disaster-Resilient Community
Resilience doesn’t look the same for every community. Those in rural areas have different resources, needs, and cultural values than communities in urban centres. Indigenous communities have important traditional relationships with the land they live on, which also...
Three Critical Oversights in Emergency Planning
Effective response by an emergency management organization (EMO) is dependent on strong relationships. Emergency planning involves a highly complex network of organizations, businesses, teams, and individuals. Successfully planning for emergencies caused by disaster...
Five Keys to Securing Disaster Financial Assistance
Securing funding for disaster recovery can be a challenge for small emergency management teams, especially those in Indigenous communities. In addition to identifying funding options, teams are often faced with bureaucracy and a heavy administrative burden as they...
What Now? Mastering Your Community’s Disaster Recovery Plan
Disasters have a deep, lasting impact on individuals and their communities. An effective plan that incorporates all components of disaster recovery considers the weeks, months, and years after the initial emergency has occurred. Disasters damage infrastructure and...
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