In general it comprises a collaborative place audit and a community planning workshop (Fig. 1), whose aim is to raise awareness, facilitate risk communication, and strengthen community resilience.
Continue working on risk communication and emergency communication systems to increase community resilience to cope with and respond to a range of threats, including a human influenza pandemic.
Norris et al. (2008) defined community resilience as a set of four adaptive capacities that include: economic development, social capital, information and communication, and community competence.
According to the WHO, risk communication is a "process which aims to help stakeholders define risks, identify hazards, assess vulnerabilities and promote community resilience" [ 9].
It has the role to prevent risks, to reduce them and to make communities aware of the risks in order to develop their capacities, enhance communication and resilience to respond to crisis events.
Or, for a more established form of community action, this guide to the Duke of Edinburgh's award explains how taking part in the programme can benefit students by developing their teamwork, communication and resilience, as well as forging links with young people from other schools.
In addition to knowledge, life skills, such as communication and resilience, are also practiced as part of school interventions.
As you'll see the competencies are not academic; they cover areas such as communication, community focus, personal responsibility, respect for diversity, resilience and team-working.
Our research focuses on the microanalysis of mother-infant communication, risk and resilience, and developmental outcomes.
The same skills apply, no matter your identity: communication, confidence, and resilience.
