Resilience is the ability of people and their communities to anticipate, accommodate and positively adapt to or thrive amidst changing climate conditions and hazard events. Resilience Hubs are already trusted community-serving facilities augmented to support residents, coordinate communication, and distribute resources while enhancing quality of life.

Resilience Hubs serve communities in three operating conditions:

Why Resilience Hubs?

• Proactive measures are necessary to anticipate disruption and future climate conditions, therefore, resilient energy and communication systems and other essentials must be in place before they’re needed
• Communities need a central place for gathering, assessing impact, sharing stories, assembling information, accessing resources, and spearheading responses
• Hubs can provide space for additional experts, aid organizations, volunteers, and support networks to gather and better understand and help meet community needs
• Hubs enhance community cohesion, build trust, shift power to residents and community-based organizations, and enhance quality of life
• Resilience Hubs emphasize the 99% of the time they aren’t in disruption or recovery mode where they can facilitate stronger community ties and capabilities before a disruption

Our journey towards making Leo’s a resilience hub:

A look back at the first work we did as a resilience hub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q4guOiQttk

As part of our efforts to increase local resiliency, we partnered with the Town of Superior’s Fire Department and helped them form a volunteer Fire Corps.

https://youtu.be/It1gpJWwTpI

Fire Marshal Dallas Lane contacted the American Red Cross and arranged a disaster action team onboarding training at Leo’s. Here what Joe from the Red Cross had to say about it.

https://youtu.be/1BqeAy6ZNNY