Care through Disaster
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WOMEN’S HEALTH GOULBURN NORTHEAST
Damage to our climate is increasing the risk of ‘unnatural’ disasters. These days, the risk of fires, floods, storms and other extreme weather events is never far from our headlines or hearts.
In partnership with Women’s Health Goulburn North East (WHGNE), Australia reMADE takes a Care lens to the challenge of increasing systemic disaster risk, asking:
‘What do our communities need to be Cared for through disaster, and what can leaders do about it?’
Knowing that we cannot prevent every disaster, how do we build communities capable of surviving and thriving the increasing challenges ahead?
This work explores what communities need, and how leaders at all levels – from citizens through to community organisations and every level of government – can better equip Australians to face our biggest challenges.
No one wants to live in a more disaster-prone world. Fortunately, we do want to live in the kinds of communities that can thrive before, during and after disaster.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the launch!
The toolkit is available in full below, and we’ll have a recording online soon.
Please get in touch (info@AustraliareMADE.org) if you want to discuss a briefing for your organisation or other ways of getting involved.
Part 2 - Care through Disaster, In Practice: a toolkit for leaders from the citizen to the state
Care through Disaster in Practice - a toolkit for leaders from the citizen to the state builds on our original research and arguments, breaking down the tangible contributions we can make as citizens, community organisations, through all levels of government, to build a new infrastructure of care at a scale required for communities to thrive through increasing systemic disaster risk.
It brings together place-based expertise and lived experience insights from the Goulburn Valley and north-eastern Victorian regions, with research on the public good, wellbeing government and emerging best practice case studies nationally and internationally – to offer an ambitious and practical toolkit for change.
Part 1 - Care through Disaster: a new lens on what’s needed to survive and thrive in tumultuous times
In part one, Care through Disaster: a new lens on what’s needed to survive and thrive in tumultuous times we ask “what does it mean for people to be Cared for through disaster?” and “what sort of support do communities need?”
Listening to people’s lived experiences of Care (and its absence) through disaster, the report argues that we need a new approach – ‘Care through Disaster 2.0’, focused on sustaining strong communities over the long-term. We canvass what it means for people to be Seen, Safe and Supported during and after a crisis. We argue that while disaster can bring people together, our goal is to prioritise what matters before disaster strikes.
We can choose to face the coming challenges in ways that exacerbate social harms, or we can find ways forward that allow us not just to survive, but to build the type of country and communities Australians want.
No one wants to live in a more disaster-prone world, and it’s still essential to do everything possible to prevent further damage to our climate. Fortunately, we do want to live in the kinds of communities that can thrive before, during and after disaster. We have the will, the know-how and resources to build that now, come what may.
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This work is a collaboration between Australia reMADE and Women’s Health Goulburn North East. It has been made possible by generous funding from the Victorian State Government via the Office for Women and Prevention of Family Violence, Department of Families Fairness and Housing.
