Common use of Strengthen Community Resilience Clause in Contracts

Strengthen Community Resilience. Community resilience is the ability of a community, through public health agencies, to develop, maintain, and utilize collaborative relationships among government, private, and community organizations to develop and utilize shared plans for responding to and recovering from disasters and public health emergencies. Associated Capabilities • Capability 1: Community Preparedness • Capability 2: Community Recovery Determine the Risks to the Health of the Jurisdiction Conduct public health jurisdictional risk assessments (JRA) once every five years, in collaboration with HPP, to identify potential hazards, vulnerabilities, and risks within the community that relate to the public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health systems and the access and functional needs of at-risk individuals. CDC recommends a collaborative and flexible risk assessment process that includes input from existing hazard and vulnerability analyses conducted by emergency management, health care coalitions (HCCs) and other health care organizations, as well as other community partners and stakeholders. PHEP recipients should analyze JRA results, and use diverse data sources such as the HHS Capabilities Planning Guide (CPG), previous risk assessments, jurisdictional incident AARs/IPs), site visit observations, jurisdictional data from the National Health Security Preparedness Index, and other jurisdictional priorities and strategies, to help determine their strategic priorities, identify program gaps, and, ultimately prioritize preparedness investments. Ensure HPP Coordination Continue assessing risk, planning, coordinating, and exercising with HPP counterparts, including HCCs. The purpose of this collaboration is to ensure a shared approach to delivering public health services alongside health care services to mitigate the public health consequences of emergencies. PHEP resources cannot be used to supplant HPP programmatic activities. However, there are areas where coordinated planning and collaboration between the programs are beneficial, including exercising and training. PHEP recipients must conduct one statewide or regional full-scale exercise (FSE) within the five-year performance period to test preparedness capabilities. Exercises must include participation from HCCs and include, at a minimum, hospitals, public health departments, emergency management agencies, emergency medical services (EMS), and public health jurisdictions. To help minimize the burden on exercise planners and participants, CDC recommends meeting multiple program requirements with this exercise, including PHEP, HPP, medical countermeasure (MCM) planning, and Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) requirements. Plan for the Whole Community Working in collaboration with HPP, continue to build and sustain state and community partnerships to ensure that activities have the widest possible reach with the strongest possible ties to the community. PHEP recipients should focus on two activities simultaneously: • Coordination with state partners and stakeholders to review collaboration efforts with local agencies they represent across the state; and • Review efforts of local jurisdictions to engage community partners who have established relationships with diverse at-risk populations. Develop and maintain plans, conduct training and exercises, and respond to public health threats and emergencies using a whole-community approach to preparedness management. Plan for individuals with disabilities and others with access and functional needs. Use a flexible approach to define populations at risk to jurisdictional threats and hazards. Address a broad set of common access and functional needs using the CMIST Framework (Communication, Maintaining Health, Independence, Services and Support, and Transportation). Ultimately, the access and functional needs of individuals must be included within federal, territorial, tribal, state and local emergency and disaster plans. CDC expects PHEP recipients to work with partners across several sectors to meet the needs of the whole community. PHEP recipients must work with partners and stakeholders on the following activities. Identify populations at risk of being disproportionately impacted by incidents or events. Have procedures in place to identify individuals with access and functional needs that may be at risk of being disproportionately impacted by incidents with public health consequences. Individuals with access and functional needs are those that are at particular risk of poor physical, psychological or social health after an emergency. Examples of populations with access and functional needs include, but are not limited to, children, pregnant women, postpartum and lactating women, racial and ethnic minorities, older adults, persons with disability, persons with chronic disease, persons with limited English proficiency, persons with limited transportation, persons experiencing homelessness, and disenfranchised populations. Coordinate with community-based organizations. Identify community partners and stakeholders with established relationships with diverse at-risk populations, such as social services or faith-based organizations, and use available tools to better anticipate the potential access and functional needs of the community before, during, and after an emergency. Identify and integrate preferred communication messages and strategies for populations with access and functional needs. Engage with key community organizations to plan and implement preparedness and response activities tailored to that community’s needs. Key community partners include public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health social networks, as well as organizations representing citizens and at-risk populations. Recipients should convene partners and stakeholders and establish clearly delineated roles and responsibilities for each partner across all hazards. Integrate access and functional needs of individuals. Describe the structure or processes in place to integrate the access and functional needs of individuals during a public health emergency. Use available tools to better anticipate the potential access and functional needs of at-risk community members before, during, and after an emergency.

Strengthen Community Resilience. Community resilience is the ability of a community, through public health agencies, to develop, maintain, and utilize collaborative relationships among government, private, and community organizations to develop and utilize shared plans for responding to and recovering from disasters and public health emergencies. Associated Capabilities •  Capability 1: Community Preparedness •  Capability 2: Community Recovery Determine the Risks to the Health of the Jurisdiction Conduct public health jurisdictional risk assessments (JRA) once every five years, in collaboration with HPP, to identify potential hazards, vulnerabilities, and risks within the community that relate to the public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health systems and the access and functional needs of at-risk individuals. CDC recommends a collaborative and flexible risk assessment process that includes input from existing hazard and vulnerability analyses conducted by emergency management, health care coalitions (HCCs) and other health care organizations, as well as other community partners and stakeholders. PHEP recipients should analyze JRA results, and use diverse data sources such as the HHS Capabilities Planning Guide (CPG), previous risk assessments, jurisdictional incident AARs/IPs), site visit observations, jurisdictional data from the National Health Security Preparedness Index, and other jurisdictional priorities and strategies, to help determine their strategic priorities, identify program gaps, and, ultimately prioritize preparedness investments. Ensure HPP Coordination Continue assessing risk, planning, coordinating, and exercising with HPP counterparts, including HCCs. The purpose of this collaboration is to ensure a shared approach to delivering public health services alongside health care services to mitigate the public health consequences of emergencies. PHEP resources cannot be used to supplant HPP programmatic activities. However, there are areas where coordinated planning and collaboration between the programs are beneficial, including exercising and training. PHEP recipients must conduct one statewide or regional full-scale exercise (FSE) within the five-year performance period to test preparedness capabilities. Exercises must include participation from HCCs and include, at a minimum, hospitals, public health departments, emergency management agencies, emergency medical services (EMS), and public health jurisdictions. To help minimize the burden on exercise planners and participants, CDC recommends meeting multiple program requirements with this exercise, including PHEP, HPP, medical countermeasure (MCM) planning, and Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) requirements. Plan for the Whole Community Working in collaboration with HPP, continue to build and sustain state and community partnerships to ensure that activities have the widest possible reach with the strongest possible ties to the community. PHEP recipients should focus on two activities simultaneously: •  Coordination with state partners and stakeholders to review collaboration efforts with local agencies they represent across the state; and •  Review efforts of local jurisdictions to engage community partners who have established relationships with diverse at-risk populations. Develop and maintain plans, conduct training and exercises, and respond to public health threats and emergencies using a whole-community approach to preparedness management. Plan for individuals with disabilities and others with access and functional needs. Use a flexible approach to define populations at risk to jurisdictional threats and hazards. Address a broad set of common access and functional needs using the CMIST Framework (Communication, Maintaining Health, Independence, Services and Support, and Transportation). Ultimately, the access and functional needs of individuals must be included within federal, territorial, tribal, state and local emergency and disaster plans. CDC expects PHEP recipients to work with partners across several sectors to meet the needs of the whole community. PHEP recipients must work with partners and stakeholders on the following activities. Identify populations at risk of being disproportionately impacted by incidents or events. Have procedures in place to identify individuals with access and functional needs that may be at risk of being disproportionately impacted by incidents with public health consequences. Individuals with access and functional needs are those that are at particular risk of poor physical, psychological or social health after an emergency. Examples of populations with access and functional needs include, but are not limited to, children, pregnant women, postpartum and lactating women, racial and ethnic minorities, older adults, persons with disability, persons with chronic disease, persons with limited English proficiency, persons with limited transportation, persons experiencing homelessness, and disenfranchised populations. Coordinate with community-based organizations. Identify community partners and stakeholders with established relationships with diverse at-risk populations, such as social services or faith-based organizations, and use available tools to better anticipate the potential access and functional needs of the community before, during, and after an emergency. Identify and integrate preferred communication messages and strategies for populations with access and functional needs. Engage with key community organizations to plan and implement preparedness and response activities tailored to that community’s needs. Key community partners include public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health social networks, as well as organizations representing citizens and at-risk populations. Recipients should convene partners and stakeholders and establish clearly delineated roles and responsibilities for each partner across all hazards. Integrate access and functional needs of individuals. Describe the structure or processes in place to integrate the access and functional needs of individuals during a public health emergency. Use available tools to better anticipate the potential access and functional needs of at-risk community members before, during, and after an emergency.