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CARRI is developing a common framework including processes and tools that communities and regions can use to assess their resilience, determine a resilience vision and take concrete actions that will have positive economic and social results. The framework will be a national framework usable across the country but flexible enough to recognize the great diversity of the United States, its citizens, institutions, governments and organizations. CARRI believes that such a common framework is best done in partnership, at the local, grass-roots level in a broad-based manner that is inclusive of all the elements of the community fabric – government, private business, associational, non-profit and faith-based – rather than top-driven from the federal government. For this reason, the framework is being developed cooperatively and collaboratively with practitioners in partner communities and with other organizations that have similar goals.
The Community and Regional Resilience Institute is a major effort of The Southeast Region Research Initiative (SERRI) supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and operated by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in conjunction with a variety of other federal, regional, state, and local partners.
The Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI) is dedicated to research and practical application across the full continuum of prevention, protection, response and recovery to enhance the resilience of communities and regions. CARRI seeks to assist the nation in developing an accepted, common framework for community and regional resilience that integrates the full suite of community resources into a coherent resilience pathway so that the community can get back on its feet following a natural or man-made disaster as quickly as possible.
CARRI began as an “initiative” in 2007 and is a collaborative effort between the Department of Homeland Security (Science and Technology Directorate), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Savannah River National Laboratory, and a number of academic institutions. Early CARRI activities included the engagement of a diverse collection of individuals, organizations, and government entities – with a charge to learn all that we could about the condition and path of community resiliency. While our efforts were productive and worthwhile we soon recognized that an accurate understanding of the interdependencies and connections between communities could not be achieved without the involvement of actual communities. Three communities in the Southeastern United States joined the CARRI team and brought with them an abundance of knowledge, first-hand experience, and remarkable compassion for their societies and citizens. CARRI is designed to combine community engagement activities with research activities; our Research Team is diverse and generates an interdisciplinary array of knowledge that is unsurpassed.
Resilient communities are our objective and research combined with practical experience is critical to ensure CARRI’s expertise is based on knowledge and evidence.
