Resilient ALICE GRIFFITH (RAG)

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.

Here are a few more of the outcomes from our past RAG cohorts: 

Stronger Resident Leadership: 

The Alice Griffith community will have a strong leadership class that can advance the neighborhood’s readiness goals and work as a team to support residents, especially the vulnerable, during times of stress.

Increased Social Cohesion: By organizing and hosting community-building events and trainings, the leadership of Resilient Alice Griffith will increase the level of connection amongst neighbors. This connection, or cohesion, will play an invaluable role in protecting the health and well-being while they shelter in place during times of stress.

Increased Awareness of Climate Change’s Impacts: Providing residents with the latest data regarding climate change and its current and long-term impacts on the immediate and surrounding community is critical in advancing the community’s participation in readiness activities.

Established Team of Resident Responders: A primary goal of Resilient Alice Griffith will be to establish a team of residents that will activate during times of stress to identify neighbors who need assistance and help them shelter in place safely.

Increased Household Readiness: Residents ready for a disaster are more likely to safely negotiate the impacts of a climate change-related shock than those not. 

Resilient Alice Griffith will provide culturally appropriate population readiness training to vulnerable residents.