Note from Dr. McDonald regarding RACs, Social Determinants of Health and COVID Response

 

We are seeking your input as to how the participation of your community in this RAC / CODE SDOH Pilots Collaboratory might help your community improve its health status and human security during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.  We will be examining the community data systems, tools, methods, and organizing approaches that historically disenfranchised communities have been able to use to lower their climate change and COVID-19 risks by advancing pandemic and global change resilience and regeneration.  We are particularly interested in what you plan to do during the next several months of the combined threats of extreme heat, hurricanes, and waves of cascading pandemic impacts.  

 

We understand that several of the Florida Disaster Resilience Initiative (FL DRI) communities have begun to move into their Phase II FL DRI activities to build deeper levels of mission critical function management, social cohesion, and social equity as they advance their Phase II activities to elevate their states of resilience and regeneration through FL DRI community-driven unity of effort.  We welcome FL DRI communities into this broader Resilient American Communities collaborative discourse.  We hope that you will share your advances and struggles regarding elevating your community’s mission critical functions in the face of the unprecedented challenges of these times.  We are also hoping that this RAC SDOH Pilots Collaboratory will allow you to hear from other community voices striving to emerge from this troubling period with improving resilience and regenerative practices while elevating social equity in New York, California, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Minnesota, Washington, the National Capital Region, Colorado, …, as well as in Florida.  We look forward to hearing from you about your community’s needs for greater capacity and resources essential to advancing as a resilient American community with greater social equity and improving social determinants of health.

 

Mike