Community Resilience and Public Health Practice

Building a National Model of Public Mental Health Preparedness and Community Resilience: Validation of a Dual-Intervention, Systems-Based Approach

“…It is also important to supplement technical content with practical information about functioning as a volunteer responder in the field, eg, underscoring the importance of waiting to be deployed, rather than just showing up; knowing what items to include [42][43][44][45][46] Given the brevity of the planning workshop, GPP offers a relatively efficient strategy to foster capacity-building in community preparedness and resilience, a goal increasingly recognized as vital to ensuring overall societal resilience during public health emergencies. 29,31,32 We learned that plan drafts were more likely to be completed by the end of the workshop if we 1) disseminated the plan template to registrants at least 1 week before the workshop, 2) required that at least one member of each planning team have sufficient knowledge of FBO leaders and members to enable completion of the "leadership roles" section of the planning template, and 3) provided intraworkshop evaluations of, and immediate feedback on, plan drafts. It is also important to advise small-membership FBOs that one person can serve multiple leadership roles in the ICS.…”

“…The approach is predicated on the assumption that, just as a nation is resilient when made up of resilient communities, a community is resilient when it is made up of resilient individuals, 30 particularly when the individuals are members of cohesive social networks, cf, "social capital." 31,32 A second premise of our work is the belief that community preparedness and resilience are most likely to be achieved by unifying the strengths of communities with those of emergency public health agencies in coherent Expanded capacity for disaster preparedness, response and recovery in congregations and communities and sustainable collaborative relationships through which evidence-supported interventions may be applied to achieve disaster resilience goals.…”

The Application of Salutogenesis in Communities and Neighborhoods

“…(d) Community as collective action (reactive-resilience; pro-active community action) As collective action, there is a reactive form referred to as resilience and a pro-active form referred to as community action. Community resilience refers to the ability of individuals, families, communities, and neighborhoods to cope with adversity and challenges (Morton & Lurie, 2013). The idea of resilience is central to a strength-based or assets approach to health.…”

The Relevance of Salutogenesis to Social Issues Besides Health: The Case of Sense of Coherence and Intergroup Relations

“…Relating to this "how" question, we review some studies which have already attempted to do so. Our interdisciplinary review starts with some studies which found positive interactions between SOC and the relations between members of the same community (e.g., Maass, Lindström, & Lillefjell, 2014;Morton & Lurie, 2013;Teig et al, 2009). Indeed, this evidence can be explained by the well-known relationship between strong social connection or connectivity and enhanced sense of health and well-being (Vaandrager & Kennedy, 2016).…”