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More Details...The Community Resilience System Initiative (CRSI)
CARRI has initiated a nation-wide conversation about community resilience through the Community Resilience System Initiative (CRSI), a collaborative process that will help communities become more resilient by providing:
- A suite of tools to help assess, measure, and improve their resilience; and
- A set of recommendations for actions needed by senior U.S. decision makers to move forward with such a system.
Initiated in early 2010, the CRSI is composed of three working groups and a Steering Committee:
CRSI Organizational Chart
The Steering Committee's final product will be a practical, usable, and functional system, targeted for release in April 2011. The system, or Community Resilience System (CRS), will contain recommendations to address community resilience issues and a suggested resilience system that draws upon input from some of the nation’s most respected subject matter experts; local and state-level end users from multiple sectors; and those from the government and finance industries who could provide incentives or rewards to communities proven to be resilient.
The CRSI is making substantial progress. At their current pace, the work groups should yield an early draft of the CRS by April 2011. The time is ripe for a national community resilience system and interest on the part of decision makers at all levels has never been stronger. The sooner there is a generally-accepted, evidence-based framework and system for achieving community-level resilience, the sooner communities will have the confidence to proceed towards systematically ensuring the resilience of their citizens, businesses, organizations, and systems of governance.
CRSI Update May 2010