Oregon is planning for resilience!!

The Office of the Governor is developing the Plan for a Resilient Oregon (PRO),a people-centered resilience strategy to help communities around Oregon adapt and thrive in the face of increasingly more severe disasters. The PRO aims to be responsive to the unique cultures, demographics, histories, and hazards of Oregon’s diverse regions. The PRO will be written to inform the Governor’s recommended budget and legislative work for the next biennium.

In this stage, the PRO team will be onboarding project staff, creating project plans, and creating infrastructure. This stage also includes contracting with researchers at the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and the Oregon Partnership for Disaster Resilience. Along with University partners, the PRO team is recruiting Community Partners for paid participation in regional focus-group cohorts.

During this stage, researchers will analyze existing plans, frameworks and literature, and create prompts for Regional Focus Groups. Community Partners will gather, share best practices, challenges and ideas, and share notes with University Partners.

The writing and reviewing stage includes incorporating academic & Community Partner knowledge to draft the Resilience Plan. The plan will be reviewed by Community Partners.

The final stage is the publication of the Resilience Plan along with any recommendations that follow.

If you are doing resiliency work in any settings, please join our Resilience Action & Impact Network! To join, just fill out this form.

The PRO team is currently recruiting for organizations across Oregon to become outreach partners! Learn more at an upcoming Regional Resilience Forum Interest Meetings: registration is live now.

Monthly Advisory Group meetings are on Zoom and open to the public on the third Wednesday of the month from 1:00-2:30pm Pacific Time. Register here.

Have a great example of community resilience happening near you? Please reach out to aimee.fritsch@oregon.gov.