Establish Community Resilience Hubs

Resilience hubs promote community preparedness, well-being and trust-building and connect residents to resources and services before during and after a natural disasters or disruptions. Hubs range from providing information and education, to sheltering residents during evacuations, or serving as cooling or clean air centers during extreme conditions. Identifying potential facilities that could provide resilience programming and/or be eligible for resilience improvements, such as solar, battery backup, air filtration, etc., would help establish Community Resilience Hubs at a range of public and private facilities, including community centers, churches, government buildings, and NGO facilities. The City’s Safety Element and the County’s Climate Adaptation Plan identifies development and maintenance of resilience hubs as critical for the safety of residents, and CEC and the County have developed a resilience hub toolkit to help guide potential hub operators.

Status: Conceptual

Cost: High cost

Partners: Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management (OEM), Santa Barbara County Sustaiinability Division, Community Environmental Council (CEC), Red Cross, Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (SBC APCD) and City of Lompoc