Building resilience requires communities, government, agencies and business to work in partnership and share responsibility. It requires an integrated community approach that puts people at the centre of decision making and supports the emergency management sector to better connect with communities to understand their values, priorities and strengths. The future of emergency management in Victoria is going to be shaped by the global challenges that confront us and the long-term impacts they have on our communities.

1. Community actions for
community resilience
Lew Short, Will Symons

2. EM Vision: Safer and More Resilient
Communities

4. Resilience...
What is normal
for one person
is quite different
for another

5. Resilience is the capacity of individuals,
communities, institutions, businesses and
systems to survive, adapt, and thrive no
matter what kinds of chronic stresses and
acute shocks they experience
Source: 100 RC

6. Towards safer more resilient communities
Guiding principles:
•Each community is unique with existing and evolving levels of safety and
resilience.
•Listening is important. Organisations should support the capacity of community
actors (groups, networks) and play a facilitative role in communities to help
them achieve their goals.
•Locally tailored planning and engagement processes are to support
community and organisational leadership, through the development of mutual
goals and solutions.
•These processes draw upon combined community and organisational strengths.
•Partnerships between agencies and with the community will be essential to
supporting the community to achieve their goals.
•Collaborative processes aim to support people to manage long term
challenges (chronic stresses) while better preparing to cope and recovery from
emergencies (acute shocks).
•Volunteers are valuable and play an essential role in supporting community
resilience.

8. What is the EM sectors
role in achieving the
resilience outcomes?

9. The emergency
management sector
cannot achieve our
vision alone

10. The emergency
management sector
cannot achieve our
vision alone