resilience HUB
Network Operations Plan
Local
Client: City of Medford Health Department
Location: Medford, MA
Dates: 2021 - 2022
Partners: Medford Health Department, Community Liaisons, Linnean Solutions
Role: Consultant Lead
Note: Holly completed this project while working at Linnean Solutions.
Working with community leaders to define a framework for resilience hubs, rooted in a sense of belonging.
This project aimed to create a pathway and process for local community-based organizations to become part of a city-wide resilience hub network, in alignment with the priorities and vision of environmental justice communities in Medford.
Through outreach and discussions led by the Medford Health Department and a team of community liaisons -- individuals from and with strong relationships with Medford’s Haitian, Brazilian, Black and African American, Latina/o, and Arabic-speaking communities -- the team identified community resilience needs and a vision for the network and the way it would operate.
The network would serve as a series of community nodes, sharing resources and information with each other, and partnering with the City to respond to emergency needs. Most importantly, the hubs would need to be spaces where Medford's environmental justice populations could feel a sense of safety, connection, and belonging.
Together, the project team ...
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Developed a process and site suitability tool for the City of Medford and community-based organizations to collaborate and assess the suitability of a given organization in becoming part of the resilience hub network;
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Created an operations plan for the resilience hub network that outlines the purpose of the network, expectations and commitments of the City and partner organizations, process for new organizations to join, and a governance structure for the network that centers equity and climate justice.
