Communities

The Community and Regional Resilience Institute operates across the full continuum of prevention, protection, response and recovery to enhance the resilience of communities and regions to significant disruptions to their infrastructure, economic and social systems. CARRI is developing a common framework including processes and tools that communities and regions can use to assess their resilience, determine a resilience vision and take concrete actions that will have positive economic and social results. The framework will be a national framework usable across the country but flexible enough to recognize the great diversity of the United States, its citizens, institutions, governments and organizations. CARRI believes that such a common framework is best done in partnership, at the local, grass-roots level in a broad-based manner that is inclusive of all the elements of the community fabric – government, private business, associational, non-profit and faith-based – rather than top-driven from the federal government. For this reason, the framework is being developed cooperatively and collaboratively with practitioners in partner communities and with other organizations that have similar goals.

The Community and Regional Resilience Institute is organized into five divisions as depicted below. It is available now to assist communities, leaders and policy makers at all levels to understand and implement policies and procedures that protect citizens, communities and regions against severe disruptions by enhancing their resilience, increasing their ability to respond and recover quickly, effectively and efficiently.