Hosted by United Way of the Columbia Willamette
We are all we got, and that’s more than enough
When faced with disaster, trauma, or uncertainty, our greatest asset is each other. Creating an emergency preparedness plan for yourself, organization, and community should be centered around our collective skills and social capital.
We tap into this asset by building connections and seeking repair with one another. During an emergency or disaster, having a neighbor, community, and municipality you can depend on and trust is life-preserving.
This webinar led by Ana-Marie Jones will remind you of the abundant resources we have in one another and people power.
The Disaster Resilience Learning Network learned of Ms. Jones through United Way colleagues. United Way of Lane County has hosted several Community Resilience trainings with Ms. Jones as the facilitator, and invited her to speak at this UW of the Pacific Northwest meeting. After her presentation she became a guiding light for me in understanding and navigating the world of disaster preparedness and resilience. She has boosted my confidence in applying a strengths-based, people-centered, and assets-rich approach to creating sustainable, thriving communities during times of disaster. She is the epitome of “We All We Got; and That’s More Than Enough.”
This webinar will also include access to a recently developed Oregon-focused community resilience toolkit developed to support neighborhood-level collaboratives from Trauma Informed Oregon through their partnership with International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC). The ITRC is launching an initiative to help organize, strengthen, and “commission” Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRCNs) in neighborhoods and communities in North America and worldwide. TRCNs are wide and diverse coalitions of residents and organizations that together use a public health approach to implement strategies to help all community members remain mentally well and resilient during climate change-generated and other adversities as they engage in solutions to the climate crisis and enhance local conditions.
In this workshop, we hope to remind community-based organizations of all the resources they have access to through their relationships and networks.
Presenters
Ana-Marie Jones
Ana-Marie Jones is currently the Chief Resiliency Officer for InterPro, where she’s the lead for projects related to readiness, resilience, and public safety. Her current projects focus on helping clients with pandemic-related issues, as well as supporting teams in finding their post-Covid new normal.
Before joining InterPro, for 16 years Ana-Marie was the executive director of CARD — Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters. At CARD, Ana-Marie worked with hundreds of nonprofits, government partners, and community stakeholders to address preparedness, safety, and resilience planning with and for diverse and more marginalized communities.
Locally, Ana-Marie is the safety lead for the Adams Point Neighborhood Group, which is the local National Crime Prevention Council for the City of Oakland’s most densely populated neighborhood. She is a member of the Lake Merritt Community Alliance Working Group, and she serves as the Chief Innovation Officer for the Oakland group known as the Trash Falcons.
For over 25 years, Ana-Marie has participated in multiple public health efforts (locally, regionally, and nationally) to address pandemics, bio-terrorism, and other public health threats.
In 2012, she was inducted into the Women in Emergency Management and Homeland Security Hall of Fame for her innovations with engaging diverse communities.
The winner of 3 Cable Telly Awards, and other recognition for her work championing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the field of emergency management, Ana-Marie was given her first safety role when she was only 3 ½ years old. Online she is known as MsDuctTape.
Christy da Rosa
Christy is a Professor of Practice at Trauma Informed Oregon (TIO) working on research related to trauma-informed care and the intersection of historical trauma and disasters. Over the past four years, Christy has supported the creation and facilitation of the Disaster Resilience Learning Network, a network for and by community based disaster leaders of color in Oregon which leverages community storytelling, trauma informed care, and social resilience frameworks to support the sustainability of BIPOC leadership in the disaster sector. This work has informed her dissertation research as a Ph.D. candidate through Portland State University's School of Social Work investigating organizational cultural brokering in wildfire recovery. Christy has a background in community mental health and youth climate justice advocacy. Beyond her work, she is a fur parent of two four-pawed fluffy butts, loves traversing the outdoors of the Pacific Northwest, and indulging in new plant children.
Christian Thompson
Christian is a social worker and researcher at Portland State University’s Trauma Informed Oregon, with experience in wildfire recovery and community mental health, working with diverse communities across Oregon to pursue both population-level resilience and conscientization around the varied deleterious impacts of the climate crisis. This work has provided opportunities to partner with both the ITRC and CTIPP to co-facilitate a global Community of Practice centered on building community resilience through addressing the mental health impacts of our changing environment while building tools for Oregon-based populations to address these challenges at a neighborhood level. Christian continues to support ITRC and CTIPP’s climate and mental wellness initiatives. Beyond this work, he enjoys spending time in the magnificent Pacific Northwest outdoors and growing chili peppers.