What is Bounce Day?

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Bounce Day aims to improve community resilience through an integrated disaster response experience that provides opportunities for education, collaboration, and innovation. Bounce Day is put on by a collaboration of Mayo Clinic researchers, educators and students, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Military medical personnel, local medical alliances, theatre groups and lay community members. Actors simulating illness (zombies) and those affected by the crumbling of society will interact with participants learning both medical and nonmedical response protocols ranging from vaccination and treatment to refugee camp management and security.

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Monday, August 25, 2014

What is Community Resilience?

Community resilience is a measure of the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations. 

It' is different than community preparedness in that it it builds broad skills rather than preparing for a specific event. It is the role of organizations to plan for specific types of disasters. It is the role of the community to build strengths and mentalities for events in general.

The resilience mindset:
  • I have skills I can use in a disaster to help others
  • My community is not immune to disasters
  • If something unpredictable were to happen, I can count on my community.
The RAND Corporation has done some amazing research in this area: http://www.rand.org/topics/community-resilience.html



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