Wayne County Resilience Hub Network

Building Resilient Communities Together

The Wayne County Resilience Hub Network is a dynamic and vibrant network of organizations designed to build strength and unity in the face of climate-related challenges. The Network will engage with residents, lead resilience initiatives, and coordinate services to enhance quality of life during emergencies and every day in between.

Wayne County's Resilience Hubs are trusted mission-driven community-based organizations, faith-based groups, and public facilities that have been equipped with additional training and resources to activate in response to climate-related hazards. During non-emergency times, hubs will continue their everyday mission. When a hazardous event does occur, they will pivot and become vital facilities offering shelter, power, food and water, communication, first aid, and other resources to boost resilience and recovery.

WHY RESILIENCE HUBS?

Recognizing a need to better connect to communities to share information and resources before, during, and after climate emergencies, the first Resilience Hub was established in Baltimore in 2014. Since then, the resilience hub model continues to evolve to best reflect the needs of the local communities they serve. Deeply embedded in their communities, Hubs can effectively connect to the most vulnerable and bridge gaps in existing practices and service delivery.

Resilience hubs provide more than just a space to gather during extreme temperatures, health crises, or other emergencies—they are augmented with additional capacity to fill the needs of their communities at a hyper local level to help us all plan for and weather the storm.

BUILDING THE NETWORK

Through 2026, Wayne County's newly established Sustainability & Innovation Division will be working with our first group of 11 community-based organizations, faith-based groups, and existing public facilities to make sure they have the resources and training to become Wayne County Resilience Hubs and officially establish the Resilience Hub Network. Our 11 organizations represent 7 Wayne County communities:

Through this first year of programming the organizations will:

• Participate in planning and co-creating the Wayne County Resilience Hub Network
• Enhance their facilities’ physical resilience and ability to serve during times of crisis
• Work with their communities to identify local needs and opportunities for the Network and their facilities
• Build team capacity and ability to serve during times of crisis

Cohort 1 program funding is supported by the FEMA Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) and ARPA SLFRF funds.

PARTNERS

The Network is being designed in partnership with community-based organizations, local governments and emergency managers, and the following Wayne County Departments:

• Economic Development Department
• Health, Human & Veteran Services
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program
• Department of Homeland Security