Building Safer Communities
Rural communities have more than their fair share of both natural and man-made disasters to cope with, including fires, flood and drought, and our council will work with its townships to help build their resilience when things go wrong.
Building safer communities is the theme of a series of community-led emergency resilience workshops which will be held in the Clare & Gilbert Valleys Council region starting in February 2021.
Funded through the Australian Government’s Drought Communities Program, Council has been pleased offer the workshops in five regional towns.
The series of four workshops began in October, and will continue in February 2021, and are designed to bring communities together through local connections and networks and create whole community approaches to responding and recovering from emergencies.
It is not vital to attend all sessions in the series. This second workshop will uncover the current level of resilience of your town using this tool from the Torrens Resilience Institute click here for the measuring community resilience tool and the following workshops, to be held in February and March this year, will be about developing projects or tasks that could improve your communities ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from identified areas of need in your communities.
Workshops will be held in the following towns in 2021::
CLARE | 3 February 24 February 17 March | 7-9pm, Barbara J Long Room, Clare Town Hall |
AUBURN | 4 February 25 February 18 March | 7-9pm, Auburn Institute |
RIVERTON | 8 February 1 March 22 March | 7.30-9.30pm, Riverton Community Hall |
MANOORA | 9 February 2 March 23 March | 7-9pm, Manoora Hall |
STOCKPORT | 11 February 4 March 25 March | 7-9pm, Stockport Hall |
Emergencies of all kinds impact everyone and have wide-ranging. Varied and complicated impacts which individuals, families and communities must cope with, often for many years.
Community members should consider attending a workshop closest to them – they can make enquiries or book in by phoning Council on 8842 6400 or email: admin@cgvc.sa.gov.au
For more detail click Community Led Emergency Resilience Workshops Australian Red Cross
