Living by the Levee: Navigating Flood Resilience with Unsheltered Communities

Living by the Levee: Navigating Flood Resilience with Unsheltered Communities

Webinar Description:

It’s not uncommon to find those experiencing homelessness living in flood zones near levees or along dams. While this poses immediate risks to those unhoused populations, it can also affect safety inspections and certifications of the flood risk infrastructure. Flood risk managers have struggled with how to engage these populations while also managing the dams and levees.

Beginning in 2022, the California U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Silver Jackets team convened a series of interagency and interdisciplinary workshops to explore this issue. These workshops produced actionable steps for care-informed strategies to communicate with homeless populations that live along levees and waterways while maintaining community flood infrastructure.

Join project leaders as they discuss the challenges and risks associated with flood resilience, infrastructure, and unhoused communities. Attendees will learn about project outcomes and tangible actions that flood risk managers can take to provide flood resilience for all members of the community.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar.

Speakers:

Jessica Ludy, United States Army Corps of Engineers
Emily Marcil, United States Army Corps of Engineers

When preparing and responding to emergencies, it is crucial to embed health equity from the start to ensure that all people have equal access to life-saving information, services, and programs. Emergencies, such as a natural disaster or a pandemic, can have devastating impacts on whole communities. People in racial and ethnic minority communities, people with disabilities, people living in geographically isolated areas, and other groups often face systemic barriers and health disparities that are exacerbated during an emergency.

Join CDC’s Office of Health Equity (OHE) and our partners to learn about the importance of health equity in emergency response and preparedness. OHE and CDC’s Office of Readiness and Response will present on its emergency response work, including the establishment of the Chief Health Equity Officer (CHEO) unit in CDC emergency responses. Additional presenters include subject matter experts from Choose Healthy Life, Southern Plains Tribal Health Board, and National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS)

Webinar series by the Northwest Fire Science Consortium

Following another significant wildfire season in the Northwest, many communities and managers are yet again focused on postfire recovery and management. The questions at hand are diverse: How do we cope with watershed impacts and restore burned landscapes? How do we ensure that landowners can access resources to replant? What does community recovery look like from a social and organizational standpoint? How do people recreate in and relate to post-fire and landscapes? Together, how do we recover, reforest, and seek resilience most effectively? Join us for a webinar series to encourage broad reflection and discussion on these questions.

Wednesdays from 12pm–1pm PDT: October 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th; November 6th

Fire Scars on the Landscape: The Science and Management of Debris Flows

Oct 9 2024, 12 – 1pm
Recently burned areas are at increased risk of flooding and debris flows, or rapidly moving landslides. Learn more about the science behind why debris flows happen, and how managers use that science to mitigate these hazards, even ahead of the fire…
 
Exploring Diverse Community Pathways to Recovery
Oct 16 2024, 12 – 1pm
After a fire, communities have to work together to organize their recovery effort. Local governments and community groups are on the front lines of figuring out what this looks like in their local contexts. A social scientist and a long-term…
 
Post-Fire Restoration Infrastructure: Adjusting our Systems to New Patterns of Runoff
Oct 23 2024, 12 – 1pm
We reengineer and rebuild after wildfire through a range of treatments, trying to match our built infrastructure to new, amplified patterns of runoff. A national wildfire practitioner speaks to how leaders and policy makers are increasingly…
 
The Reforestation Pipeline: Ensuring Equitable Access to Replanting
Oct 30 2024, 12 – 1pm
The science behind reforestation is not new, but in a changing climate, new challenges are rising around what to plant, where to plant, and who has access to planting opportunities. Two nonprofit practitioners review the science of reforestation and…
 
Recreating and Relating to the Land After Fire
Nov 6 2024, 12 – 1pm
Wildfires reshape recreation access and experiences over the short and long term. A researcher shares emerging science that is revealing how people return to and perceive wildfire-affected landscapes, and a manager shares how they navigate decisions…

 

Hurricane Helene caused widespread destruction and devastation, from Florida, where it first made landfall, to the Appalachian Mountains and beyond. While many of the areas that have been devastated are still being evaluated, it’s clear the havoc and damage are immense.

We are hosting a webinar on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 1 p.m. ET to discuss the most urgent and ongoing needs in affected communities and explore how chronic and repetitive disasters create additional challenges.

CDP’s President and CEO, Patty McIlreavy, will moderate the discussion. She will be joined by:

Join us for a webinar series on Tools2Use: Improving Healthcare Outcomes through Effective Communication.

Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm PT | 2 pm – 3:30 pm ET

Webinar Series Dates and Topics:
9/26 – Tools Providers Can Use
10/24 – Tools Consumers Can Use
11/18 – Integrating Tools to Improve Healthcare Outcomes
*Select the dates below that you would like to attend.

Language access provided:
– American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation
– Spanish interpretation
– Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning in English and Spanish

Brought to you by: Ability Central, Community Emergency Response Volunteers (CERV) of Monterey Peninsula, Patient-Provider Communication, and The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies.
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Únase para una serie de seminarios web sobre Tools2Use (herramientas para usar): Mejorando los Resultados de la Atención Médica a través de una Comunicación Efectiva.

Hora: 11 am – 12:30 pm hora del Pacífico | 2 pm – 3:30 pm hora del Este

Fechas y temas de la Serie de seminarios web:
9/26 – Herramientas que los proveedores pueden usar
10/24 – Herramientas que les consumidores pueden usar
11/18 – Integración de herramientas para mejorar los resultados de la atención médica
*Seleccione las fechas a continuación a las que le gustaría asistir.

Acceso al idioma proporcionado:
– Interpretación en Lengua de Señas Americana (ASL)
– Interpretación en español
– Subtítulos en tiempo real (CART, por sus siglas en inglés) en inglés y español

Presentado por: Ability Central (Habilidad Central), Voluntarios de Respuesta a Emergencias Comunitarias (CERV, por sus siglas en inglés) de la Península de Monterey, Comunicación Paciente-Proveedor, y la Alianza para Estrategias Inclusivas ante Desastres.

Join us for a webinar series on Tools2Use: Improving Healthcare Outcomes through Effective Communication.

Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm PT | 2 pm – 3:30 pm ET

Webinar Series Dates and Topics:
9/26 – Tools Providers Can Use
10/24 – Tools Consumers Can Use
11/18 – Integrating Tools to Improve Healthcare Outcomes
*Select the dates below that you would like to attend.

Language access provided:
– American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation
– Spanish interpretation
– Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART) captioning in English and Spanish

Brought to you by: Ability Central, Community Emergency Response Volunteers (CERV) of Monterey Peninsula, Patient-Provider Communication, and The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies.
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Únase para una serie de seminarios web sobre Tools2Use (herramientas para usar): Mejorando los Resultados de la Atención Médica a través de una Comunicación Efectiva.

Hora: 11 am – 12:30 pm hora del Pacífico | 2 pm – 3:30 pm hora del Este

Fechas y temas de la Serie de seminarios web:
9/26 – Herramientas que los proveedores pueden usar
10/24 – Herramientas que les consumidores pueden usar
11/18 – Integración de herramientas para mejorar los resultados de la atención médica
*Seleccione las fechas a continuación a las que le gustaría asistir.

Acceso al idioma proporcionado:
– Interpretación en Lengua de Señas Americana (ASL)
– Interpretación en español
– Subtítulos en tiempo real (CART, por sus siglas en inglés) en inglés y español

Presentado por: Ability Central (Habilidad Central), Voluntarios de Respuesta a Emergencias Comunitarias (CERV, por sus siglas en inglés) de la Península de Monterey, Comunicación Paciente-Proveedor, y la Alianza para Estrategias Inclusivas ante Desastres.

OHA’s Health Equity Definition: 

Oregon will have established a health system that creates health equity when all people can reach their full health potential and well-being and are not disadvantaged by their race, ethnicity, language, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, intersections among these communities or identities, or other socially determined circumstances. Achieving health equity requires the ongoing collaboration of all regions and sectors of the state, including tribal governments to address:

  • The equitable distribution or redistribution of resources and power; and
  • Recognizing, reconciling and rectifying historical and contemporary injustices.

Purpose:

This Oregon Health Policy Board (OHPB) educational webinar will share details on Senate Bill 966 findings.

Senate Bill 966 requires Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to study the Quality Incentive Program, and the structure of the Metrics and Scoring subcommittee. OHA partnered with the Regional Research Institute (RRI) at Portland State University. RRI is a research team that collected information from Oregon Health Plan members through a survey to assist in improving access to health services.

The research team also interviewed representatives from Coordinated Care Organizations, community-based organizations/providers, and relevant committee members to develop recommendations for programmatic changes and changes to the subcommittee structure so that the design of the Quality Incentive Program is primarily focused on addressing health inequities, including the structural drivers of health inequities.

OHPB educational webinars are for informational purposes only. OHPB member attendance is optional, and no official business will be conducted. All OHPB Committee members, OHA staff, partners, and members of the public and community are welcome to attend.

Topic: OHPB Educational Webinar: Senate Bill 966 Study Findings

Time: Sep 17, 2024 08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada

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