American journal of public health
Volume 107, Issue S2, 2017, Pages S161-S164

Promoting Community Preparedness and Resilience: A Latino Immigrant Community-Driven Project Following Hurricane Sandy (Article)

Cuervo I. , Leopold L. , Baron S.
  • a Isabel Cuervo and Sherry Baron are with the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York, NY. Les Leopold is with the Labor Institute, Flushing, NY, United States
  • b Isabel Cuervo and Sherry Baron are with the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York, NY. Les Leopold is with the Labor Institute, Flushing, NY, United States
  • c Isabel Cuervo and Sherry Baron are with the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York, NY. Les Leopold is with the Labor Institute, Flushing, NY, United States

Abstract

As community residents and recovery workers, Latino immigrants play important roles after disasters, yet are rarely included in preparedness planning. A community-university-labor union partnership created a demonstration project after Hurricane Sandy to strengthen connections to disaster preparedness systems to increase community resilience among Latino immigrant communities in New York and New Jersey. Building ongoing ties that connect workers and community-based organizations with local disaster preparedness systems provided mutual benefits to disaster planners and local immigrant communities, and also had an impact on national disaster-related initiatives.

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Index Keywords

New Jersey Civil Defense community care human middle aged Community Networks Hispanic Americans hurricane Cyclonic Storms Humans migrant psychology New York Hispanic male Emigrants and Immigrants female Resilience, Psychological organization and management psychological resilience adult disaster planning
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85029688392&doi=10.2105%2fAJPH.2017.304053&partnerID=40&md5=acd27e3b98c2e066f1a7c13e5ab48de4
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304053
ISSN: 15410048
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English