Welcome to Resilient Bayview
BACKGROUND
In early 2013, a group of Bayview non‐profits, small businesses, faith‐based organizations, universities, residents and city agency stakeholders came together to create a vision for the Bayview that ensures the health and well-being for all residents and local agencies in a future that grows richer in stressors and shocks every day. Out of this process, Resilient Bayview was born and over the course of the last few years, the program members worked intensely to create a Resilience Action Plan that inventories the goals and objectives that will guide the group’s efforts to empower local agencies and residents to prepare for and recover from disasters of any size.
Resilient Youth Leadership Academy
The Resilient Youth Leadership Academy is a program run by the A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI). This powerful eight week immersive learning experience provides the Academy participants with a behind the scenes understanding about the impacts of climate change on the Bayview, the strategies that are being developed to mitigate its impact and how the agencies work that are charged with protecting the health and well-being of Bayview Residents.
Resilient Alice Griffith
The Alice Griffith Housing development is one of San Francisco’s most at-risk housing sites. The Resilient Alice Griffith Initiative leverages a model created by the Neighborhood Empowerment Network, synthesizing classic emergency management goals with modern community development methods. Specifically, the resident leaders of Alice Griffith will have streamlined access to leadership development, traditional preparedness training, and exercises that will advance their ability to work together during a disaster to successfully protect their community regardless of the level of support they receive from first responder organizations. Download the program summary.
Our Projects
Resilient Alice Griffith
Alice Griffith Housing Development
Located in southeast San Francisco in the Candlestick Point area, the Alice Griffith Housing Development is a HOPE SF site home to 337 public housing units with approximately 600 residents on about 22 acres. Constructed in 1962 and located near the decommissioned shipyard, an aging football stadium for the 49ers, Alice Griffith is relatively isolated from the rest of the
City, lacking access to social services, jobs, and other amenities usually found in San Francisco neighborhoods. Additionally, due to its location on the City’s bay coastline and in one of the warmest parts of the City, it is at incredibly high risk of the impacts of sea level rise and heat waves. Over the last decade, many original buildings have replaced modern, safer apartment buildings. While the facilities have been improved, the residents still need ongoing support services to overcome the negative impacts of the intentional lack of civic and social investment
in the surrounding community. As part of that strategy, Bayview Hunter's Point Multi-Purpose Senior Services (BHPMSS) has stepped in and is now managing the community center and its resident support services.
2022 Heatwave Strategy
“When It Gets Hot, Stay Cool…. Bayview Style”
In 2017, the Bayview experienced a series of unprecedented heat waves which saw the temperature rise to over 100 over the course of 2 consecutive days, for the first time in recorded history. The Resilient Bayview Executive Steering Committee activated its HUB and were able to establish a cooling center at two separate locations. During its post event debrief, the steering committee determined the following:
- Residents, especially those vulnerable to heat related health impacts, had little or no access to culturally competent preparedness materials
- A majority of vulnerable residents live in structures with no air conditioning
- Directing vulnerable residents to seek shelter from heat at offsite locations could put their health in jeopardy
- Strengthening their ability to shelter in place, with the support of their immediate social and service network is ideal scenario to plan for
As a result, the Resilient Bayview Vulnerable Populations Working Group has secured the funding to strengthen the community’s ability to prepare for, and respond to, extreme weather events. Their program is called the Resilient Bayview Heat and Poor Air Quality Resilience 2022 Strategy.
The Town Center Hub
The Town Center Hub
The Town Center Hub
The leadership of Resilient Bayview has crafted a resilience strategy that builds on the organic daily behavior of Bayview. The main economic corridor of the community is 3rd St. which is lined with small businesses, restaurants, schools, faith based organizations, gymnasiums, government buildings and public open spaces. Every day thousands of Bayview residents receive support from this complex network of cross sector agencies. The RBV leadership determined that during times of stress, residents are most likely going to come to 3rd St. to secure a wide variety of support, so the leadership determined that the best course of action would be to establish three “HUB”s along the corridor. A HUB is a network of community serving agencies that work every day to increase their internal readiness, as well as that of their staff and clients, as well as have the capacity to work collectively to meet the needs of the surrounding community during times of stress. The first of these three HUBs is the Town Center HUB whose major feature is the Mendell Plaza.
Trainings
The Town Center Hub
The Community Youth Center (CYC) and SF CARD are offering free trainings on the Alert SF system throughout the community for Bayview residents and nonprofit organizations. All programs focus on what you need to know right away to get you onboarded as quickly as possible.
Reports and Resources
COMING SOON: Browse Resilient Bayview's reports and publications grouped by topic.
Our results and financials are published transparently in our Annual Report, so you’ll always know how your donations are helping.
RESILIENT BAYVIEW HEAT AND POOR AIR QUALITY RESILIENCE STRATEGY
In the aftermath of the lethal heatwave of 2017, Resilient Bayview created a hyperlocal strategy to protect the health and well-being of its vulnerable residents during heat and poor air quality events. Entitled the Heat and Poor Air Quality Resilience Program, this strategy has been tested in pursuant heat events and has since been deployed in San Francisco’s Richmond district. Read the Resilient Bayview Heat and Poor Air Quality Resilience 2022 Strategy