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Resilience Hubs

 

Resilience Hubs can operate under three different modes:

  1. Everyday Mode
    • This is the Resilience Hub's most common mode of operation. The Hub is offering day-to-day services.
  2. Disruption Mode
    • If there is a community-wide disaster, like a flood or power outage, the Resilience Hub switches to Disruption Mode. The Hub can coordinate a response to the disaster and help residents through the hardship with services and programming aimed at emergency response.
  3. Recovery Mode
    • After a disaster ends, the Resilience Hub gradually shifts from Disruption Mode to Everyday Mode. Emergency services stop, Everyday services phase in, and some long-term recovery services are offered.

 

 

If you are interested in creating a Resilience Hub at your organization's site, like a community center or church, please reach out to Howard Miller at Howard.Miller@cincinnati-oh.gov for more information.

If you are a resident interesting in supporting a Resilience Hub in your neighborhood (but don't have access to a site to start one at), please reach out to Lauren Clark at Lauren.Clark@cincinnati-oh.gov to get involved.

The Office of Environment and Sustainability has partnered with the Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio and Groundwork Ohio River Valley to plan for the establishment of a Resilience Hub in Avondale.

The project is funded through the Urban Sustainability Directors Network's Resilience Hub Fund for Resilient Power Systems. The grant provides funding for two major components of the project:

  1.  An ASHRAE Level 2 energy audit of the Urban League's site that will help us understand the potential energy efficiency improvements and installation of solar with battery backup at the site.
  2. A community engagement process that includes:
    1. Recruiting Avondale residents to serve on the Resilience Hub Advisory Committee that ensures voices from Avondale are present in the decision-making process
    2. A Needs Survey for Avondale residents that will inform the Avondale Resilience Hub Needs Assessment
    3. The creation of the Urban League's Resilience Hub Strategic Plan
    4. A Resilience Hub Milestone Celebration to share the results of the project with the Avondale community and find new partners interested in becoming a Resilience Hub

 

 

The Avondale Resilience Hub project is currently underway and this page will be updated as progress is made. Here's what to expect:

  • Urban League's Resilience Hub Strategic Plan

If you're interested in establishing a Resilience Hub in your neighborhood and would like more information, please contact Howard.Miller@cincinnati-oh.gov

 

The Office of Environment & Sustainability is supporting Avondale in their efforts to establish a Resilience Hub. For more information about the project, visit the Avondale Resilience Hub page below.

Avondale Resilience Hub

Want to learn more about resilience hubs? Check out this article from the Urban Sustainability Directors Network or email Howard.Miller@cincinnati-oh.gov to chat with us directly.