Community resilience building: engage communities and suggest policies

To build collective resilience, communities have to reduce risk and resource inequities, engage local people in mitigation, create organizational linkages, boost, and protect social supports. A community’s resilience is often understood as the capacity of its social system to come together to work toward a communal aim. Furthermore, Community resilience is a process linking a network of adaptive capacities (resources with dynamic attributes) to adaptation after a critical event or adversity. Community adaptation appears in population wellness, and it is defined as high and non-disparate levels of mental and behavioral health, functioning, and quality of life. The workshop provides several tools for evaluating community resilience building efforts and promoting common practice.