FAQs

All community members are encouraged to attend and share stories and learn about natural disasters and community resilience.  

Queensland in the most disaster-prone state in Australia. North Queensland is the gateway to tropical cyclones and east-coast lows with wetter than average climate. The project will focus on: 

• Cyclones and severe storms 
• Floods  
• Coastal hazards 
• Heatwaves 
• Bushfires 
• Landslides  

The workshops will provide an open forum to discuss previous experiences of natural hazards and provide interactive opportunities to participate in activities on awareness and understanding of these concepts.

Resilience means different things to different people. Resilience of individuals and communities involves their preparedness for, and capacity to adapt or recover from the impact of natural disasters. Simply put, community resilience is the ability to ‘bounce back’ from an adverse experience.

The stakes will continue to rise without collective, proactive effort to embed resilience in everything we do. In addition to risk to people and home, in economic terms the projected costs of disasters over the next forty years are likely unsustainable. We need to break the cycle of responding after the events and inject more focus into those things that will stand us in better stead the next time we are tested.

There is no hard and fast rule how to build community resilience however it is best strengthened continuously, not just in times of crisis. It involves people getting together to create sustainable links within their community. The level of interconnectedness between members of a community is a key component and indicator of the level of community resilience. This project aims to help communities achieve these characteristics.

We have an online form available for those who are unable to attend one of the workshops. You can also contact our community engagement team if you would like to speak with someone.