Citation

Cuervo I, Leopold L, Baron S. Am. J. Public Health 2017; 107(S2): S161-S164.

Affiliation

Isabel Cuervo and Sherry Baron are with the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY. Les Leopold is with the Labor Institute, New York, NY.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2017.304053

PMID

28892443

Abstract

As community residents and recovery workers, Latino immigrants play important roles after disasters, yet are rarely included in preparedness planning. A community-university-labor union partnership created a demonstration project after Hurricane Sandy to strengthen connections to disaster preparedness systems to increase community resilience among Latino immigrant communities in New York and New Jersey. Building ongoing ties that connect workers and community-based organizations with local disaster preparedness systems provided mutual benefits to disaster planners and local immigrant communities, and also had an impact on national disaster-related initiatives.

Language: en