Community Sector Resilience Program

PAG Meeting 2

Friday 18th March

10:00 - 12:00pm

Arup Offices, Melbourne

What we will cover in this meeting:

Update on project to date
Engagement
Mapping resources
Review of website + external communications
Review of resilience monitoring tool
Next steps

Who has been engaged so far?

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, attendance to targeted workshops and use of resilience tool (to be released)

Engagement with DHHS regional public health managers to arrange workshops regionally

Face to face:

Carer's Victoria
Community Housing Federation Victoria
Domestic Violence Victoria
VADA
Victorian Healthcare Association
Centre for Excellent Child and Family Welfare
Council to Homeless Persons
MAV
Rockefeller Foundation (Resilience Melbourne)
DHHS regional public health managers

Email & phone correspondance:

NDS Vic (awaiting response)
Yarra Community Housing
Port Phillip Community Housing
VCOSS (PCP coordinator)
VACCHO (awaiting response)

Regional public health managers (DHHS)

Loddon Mallee (workshops secured)
Gippsland (workshops pending)
Southern (workshops pending)
Hume (workshops pending)
Grampians (awaiting response)
Barwon South West (awaiting response)
North and West (awaiting response)
Eastern (awaiting response)

Introductory workshop with peaks involves using soft systems methodology activities. Workshop resources are made available on project website post introductory workshop.

View sides here: http://communityresilience.loopandco.com.au/assets/slides/CHFV-workshop-ppt.pdf

View handbook here:

http://communityresilience.loopandco.com.au/assets/slides/Soft-systems-methodology-booklet.pdf

Resource development update

We have produced online mapping tools which outline:

location of organisation (type, address)
overlay of extreme events (heat, flooding)
overlay of climate projections

We will share this with you during the PAG meeting

Communication tool - project website

Please review and note your thoughts on the project website. Please bring these thoughts to the PAG meeting.

See website here: http://communityresilience.loopandco.com.au

Testing the resilience tool

During the PAG workshop we will test the resilience monitoring tool that we have developed.

This is the first time it has been tested online with sector experts.

Next steps...

Targeted workshops arranged with regional public health managers
CBD workshops arranged
Publicity through peaks
Continued user testing and improvement of tool
Social network analysis reporting
Resilience Monitoring Framework development

How you can help:

Provide feedback on tool
Provide feedback on website
Provide insights into workshop scheduling
Link us to other organisation clusters and peaks
Promote the project

Looking forward to seeing you on Friday!