Community Sector Resilience Program
Bulletin update May 2016
Included in this update:
- Sector engagement to date
- Upcoming workshops
- Outputs from the project to date
- What next?
- How you can get involved
Who has been engaged so far?
Sector Engagement
Structure of peak agency engagement
1) phone call
2) follow-up email with information
3) arranged face to face meeting
4) either tailored workshop for peak body, or
4) engagement in regional workshop
Peaks to encourage member participation in project and attendance to targeted workshops
Face to face meetings with peaks:
- Carer's Victoria
- Community Housing Federation Victoria
- Domestic Violence Victoria
- Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association
- Pennington Institute
- National Disability Services Victoria
- Victorian Healthcare Association
- Centre for Excellent Child and Family Welfare
- Council to Homeless Persons
- Municipal Association of Victoria
- Rockefeller Foundation (Resilience Melbourne)
- DHHS regional public health managers
Email & phone correspondance:
- Berry Street
- Yarra Community Housing
- Port Phillip Community Housing
- Victorian Council of Social Service
- Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
DHHS representatives
- Emergency Management Board
- Regional Public Health Managers
- Local Connect representatives
These representatives aid in the coordination of the regional workshops and circulate invitations to regional CSO
Targeted Engagement
Regional Workshops
Regional workshops - Targeted engagement
Purpose
- Provide an introduction to the community sector resilience program;
- Assist participants to understand how natural disasters can affect their operations and service delivery;
- Highlight the benefits of resilience planning;
- Provide an opportunity to test tools developed from the program and shape how resilience planning will be undertaken with the sector.
Regional workshops - Targeted engagement
Flexible Agenda
Open: 10:00pm
Introductions – Ice breaker
Project Overview - bracketing
Morning Tea Break ~ 10:40am
Potential risks from natural disaster events – rich picturing
Tool testing
Sector benefits of resilience planning - presentation
Lunch: 12:30pm
Shaping the project – systems mapping
Reflections
Close: 2:00pm
Upcoming workshops
...get your pen out!
Regional workshops - Targeted engagement
| Location | Region | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Mildura | Loddon-Mallee | 14/4/16 - complete |
| Bendigo | Loddon-Mallee | 15/4/16 - complete |
| Traralgon | Gippsland | 26/5/16 |
| Bairnsdale | Gippsland | 30/5/16 |
| Footscray (Carer's Vic) | Metro West | 6/6/16 |
| Camperdown | Western Region | 23/6/16 |
| Melbourne | Metro East | 24/6/16 or 29/6/16 |
| Ararat | Grampians region | 20/6/16 TBC |
| Benalla | Hume Region | 27/6/16 TBC |
*More dates and locations to be confirmed
'Loved the activities’ ‘taking the activities away’
'New people in the room – great networking’
‘I want to use this tool with everyone in our organisation’
‘I understand a lot of agencies are facing the same issues as us’
‘I really need to include this as a running agenda item’
‘facts about natural disasters and impacts on agencies – I didn’t realise it was so severe’
Workshop insights so far
Outputs so far
Project website
Vulnerability map
Resilience tool
Outputs to come
Social network analysis
Resilience Implementation plan
Project website
http://communityresilience.loopandco.com.au
Vulnerability map
- maps every CSO across the State
- overlays historic disasters
- overlays future projections
- request access from project team
Resilience Self Assessment Tool
- Available on project website - currently in user testing mode
- Measures resilience baseline against resilience characteristics
- Provides guidance for resilience support
Outputs to come
Social network analysis
- reports on the sector connectedness
- 'who do you learn from?'
- 'who do you turn to in a disaster?'
Resilience Implementation Plan
- Recommends how to undertake resilience planning in the sector
- Outlines methodology for Project 3
How you can get involved
- Attend a regional targeted engagement workshop
- Register your interest with one of the project team
- Select 'participate' on the project website to be contacted
Benefits
- Resilience planning support
- Networking and knowledge sharing between agencies
- Learn more about the benefits on the project website
What's next?
- Targeted engagement workshops continued across the State
- Resilience tool testing and improvement
- Social network analysis collation
Project 3 - Facilitated Resilience Planning starts in August 2017
- Don't miss out on this opportunity to build the capacity of your organisation
- Resilience planning is fully funded
- All you have to commit is staff time
- Register your interest now!
What's next?
- Targeted engagement workshops continued across the State
- Resilience tool testing and improvement
- Social network analysis collation
Ali McArthur - Loop and Co
ali@loopandco.com.au
+61 422 244 993
Rob Turk - Arup
rob.turk@arup.com
+61 422 244 993
Contact:
Department of Health and Human Services
Daniel Voronoff
daniel.voronoff@dhhs.vic.gov.au
9096 7173