Government agencies have been slow to respond and support Puerto Rican communities' post-disaster. The Centro de Apoyo Mutuo (CAM) in rural Las Carolinas is a mutual aid center based in a repurposed school that aims to increase community resilience and disaster preparedness for their community. Our project supported CAM Las Carolinas’ resilience efforts by developing a disaster preparedness mobilization system that documented household-level assets and risks to improve post-disaster response effectiveness. The system was informed by interviews with 42 las Carolinas residents, 4 community leaders, and 6 other mutual aid centers. We created a database and mapping system to locate at-risk community members and provided the CAM with recommendations to build long-term resilience.

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Creator

• Checko, Tara

Subject

• Health
• Community
• Water
• Well-Being
• Food

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 118001
• E-project-022924-100858

Mot-clé

• Mutual Aid Center
• Emergency Preparedness
• Mapping System
• Resilience
• Emergency Preparedness Hubs
• Community Resilience

Advisor

• Stoddard, Elisabeth Anne
• Davis, John-Michael

Year

• 2024

Sponsor

• Centro de Apoyo Mutuo, Las Carolinas

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Date created

• 2024-02-29

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Source

• E-project-022924-100858

Rights statement

• In Copyright