Community Resilience: Collaboration Between State And Local Governments

When a catastrophic disaster occurs, achieving and sustaining community resilience is the concentration and primary concern of the nation, states, citizens, and businesses. However, to achieve the goal of building communities that are resilient to disasters requires a collaborative effort. Disasters always occur at the local level. The local government sustains control of the total available resources used in the post disaster response and recovery efforts, regardless of the source of the assets they may have. Local governments must plan and prepare for this role with the support of the State and Federal governments. However, the issue is federal, state, and local governments are not always united and many agencies within their specified level may choose not to collaborate well. This ultimately, makes it extremely difficult to adequately organize the distribution of resources, goods, and services across jurisdictional boundaries. When rivalries exist between different emergency management offices at the local level or trust and respect is not shared amongst the federal, state, and local level it prevents effective communication and damages the community response to recover.
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Recognizing the associated roles for the federal, state, and local governments, non-profits, private sectors, as well as faith based, and community based orgazations community resilience can be achieved. If a commitment is made to effectively communicate, respect, share, and work together relent communities will be established. Getting past the barriers of community residence is definitely no easy task. Federal agencies such as The Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) or FEMA and even organizations such a Red Cross or Aidmatrix alone, cannot single handily control building community resilience. It involves a collaborative effort amongst all