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After the Fires: Supporting communities to recover and build resilience: East Gippsland project evaluation report
Southern Cross University
04/2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25918/report.360
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Abstract
Many communities in Victoria’s East Gippsland region have experienced multiple and ongoing disasters in recent years, including the Black Summer fire season of 2019/20. With funding from the National Emergency Management Agency, MacKillop Seasons (part of MacKillop Family Services) implemented After the fires: Supporting communities to recover and build resilience (hereafter the Resilience Project) from 2022-2024 in East Gippsland. The project aimed to support individual, family, and community recovery and enhance future disaster preparedness in East Gippsland communities by:
• Improving community connectedness through mental health programs in schools, health and
community services
• Supporting community development and resilience by training local facilitators
• Implementing culturally safe and responsive practice in collaboration with local Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander communities and
• Building capability and capacity to recover from bushfires and promote future resilience.
Recognising the paucity of evidence about the practices associated with building community capacity to better support children and young people’s disaster recovery, the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University conducted a developmental evaluation of the East Gippsland project from September 2022-March 2024. This report details the relevant literature, evaluation methodology, findings and recommendations for future community capacity-building efforts to support and enable children and young people’s disaster recovery (CCB-DR).
Details
- Title
- After the Fires: Supporting communities to recover and build resilience: East Gippsland project evaluation report
- Creators
- Meaghan Vosz - Southern Cross University, Social WorkAnne Graham AO - Southern Cross University, Faculty of HealthCatharine Simmons - Southern Cross University, Centre for Children and Young People
- Publisher
- Southern Cross University; Lismore, NSW
- Number of pages
- 23
- Identifiers
- 991013187513702368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health; Social Work; Faculty of Education; Centre for Children and Young People
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report