Community Resilience
Community Resilience refers to:
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A community's capacity to transition through change and prosper in becoming sustainable.
Over 25 years of research has shown that a community's ability to adapt and succeed is dependent upon the culture of the community.
Successful communities have developed a culture that fosters:
is a community-based organization that was formed as an outcome of the 2003 community-wide forum, "Moving Forward: Beyond Job Losses". Algoma University's Community Economic and Social Development program was mandated to conduct a resilience study on Sault Ste. Marie. The report, Portrait of Community Resilience Sault Ste. Marie (2007) contains the assessment and analysis of Sault Ste. Marie's strengths, weaknesses and gaps in terms of resilience characteristics. A condensed version of the report is the CRSSM Project Overview (2007).
CRSSM Goal: to increase Sault Ste. Marie's desirability by becoming economically viable, socially equitable, environmentally responsible, and culturally vital.
CRSSM's Role: to help the community achieve more durable and effective results from their investment of time, talent and resources by working cross-sectorally, indusively and holistically.
Facilitator and Enabler
Contact: Jude Ortiz
jude.ortiz@algomau.ca
Successful communities have developed a culture that fosters:
- community engagement;
- networks of social relations-social capital;
- holistic community plans; and,
- local capacity building based on community resources- people, financial, and natural
is a community-based organization that was formed as an outcome of the 2003 community-wide forum, "Moving Forward: Beyond Job Losses". Algoma University's Community Economic and Social Development program was mandated to conduct a resilience study on Sault Ste. Marie. The report, Portrait of Community Resilience Sault Ste. Marie (2007) contains the assessment and analysis of Sault Ste. Marie's strengths, weaknesses and gaps in terms of resilience characteristics. A condensed version of the report is the CRSSM Project Overview (2007).
CRSSM Goal: to increase Sault Ste. Marie's desirability by becoming economically viable, socially equitable, environmentally responsible, and culturally vital.
CRSSM's Role: to help the community achieve more durable and effective results from their investment of time, talent and resources by working cross-sectorally, indusively and holistically.
Facilitator and Enabler
- Works with community leaders to facilitate cross-sectoral (e.g. economic, social, environmental, and cultural) planning
- Encourages community partnerships and collaborations to initiate projects aimed at increasing Sault Ste. Marie's resilience
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Contact: Jude Ortiz
jude.ortiz@algomau.ca
