Citation

Pfefferbaum RL, Pfefferbaum B, Van Horn RL, Klomp RW, Norris FH, Reissman DB. J. Public Health Manag. Pract. 2013; 19(3): 250-258.

Affiliation

Liberal Arts Department, Phoenix Community College, Phoenix, Arizona (Dr Rose Pfefferbaum); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine (Dr Betty Pfefferbaum), and Terrorism and Disaster Center (Drs Rose Pfefferbaum, Betty Pfefferbaum, and Van Horn), University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City; Office of Safety, Health, and Environment, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia (Mr Klomp); Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, and National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, White River Junction, Vermont (Dr Norris); and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (Dr Reissman).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PHH.0b013e318268aed8

PMID

23524306

Abstract

Community resilience has emerged as a construct to support and foster healthy individual, family, and community adaptation to mass casualty incidents. The Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART) is a publicly available theory-based and evidence-informed community intervention designed to enhance community resilience by bringing stakeholders together to address community issues in a process that includes assessment, feedback, planning, and action. Tools include a field-tested community resilience survey and other assessment and analytical instruments. The CART process encourages public engagement in problem solving and the development and use of local assets to address community needs. CART recognizes 4 interrelated domains that contribute to community resilience: connection and caring, resources, transformative potential, and disaster management. The primary value of CART is its contribution to community participation, communication, self-awareness, cooperation, and critical reflection and its ability to stimulate analysis, collaboration, skill building, resource sharing, and purposeful action.

Language: en