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In this episode, Elizabeth Doerr and guest Brekke discuss the importance of community preparedness and relationship-building for long-term resilience.

If you haven’t yet taken the survey about virtual classes we’re hoping to offer in the fall, there’s still time to complete it! In our penultimate episode of Season 2, we talk about the topic that I write about all the time in my newsletter: community preparedness. This is a much less tangible element of preparedness and isn’t one you’re going to accomplish over as weekend or even a few weeks. It’s a long-term process of relationship-building. Hopefully this conversation that Brekke and I had helps to give you some inspiration and motivation to help you begin to branch out with neighborhood preparedness. Here is the written version of this topic from last year to reference back to it. Additionally, we mentioned a few FEMA resources that, as of this writing, are still on the FEMA website, but as with everything on federal websites right now, there’s no telling what will be removed and when. So here are a few downloaded PDFs that might be helpful: * Community Resilience: Using a Religious Literacy Primer to Improve Engagement with Faith Communities | FEMA * National Disaster Recovery Framework | FEMA * Disaster Resource Identification | FEMA And last, Brekke mentioned the idea of…

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