Community Engagement in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: A Tale of Two Cities - Los Angeles and New Orleans

• 2013

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• Kenneth Wells; Benjamin Springgate; Elizabeth Lizaola; Felicia Jones; Alonzo Plough
PMID: 23954058DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2013.05.002

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Global awareness of the mental health effects of disasters is growing. Challenges in preparing communities and a lack of emphasis on relationships and organizational capacity have shifted policy focus to community resiliency as a vital public health strategy for disaster response. The authors highlight an approach to community engagement for enhancing mental health services, disaster recovery, and preparedness through a community resiliency lens, developed through their work in Los Angeles County and New Orleans.

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Hazards: CBRNE; Natural Disasters; Severe Weather; Trauma; Violence

Audiences: Behavioral Health Professionals; Emergency Managers; Physicians; Public Health Professionals

Emergency Management Stages: Recovery; Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Collection: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Cities; Community-Institutional Relations; Depression; Disaster Planning; Health Services Needs and Demand; Los Angeles; Minority Groups; Policy Making; Resilience, Psychological; Community-Based Participatory Research; New Orleans; Health Disparate Minority and Vulnerable Populations

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles; Healthy African American Families; RAND Corporation; Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

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