Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART): The CART Integrated System©

Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART): The CART Integrated System©

Description:

This toolkit contains descriptions of several community assessment tools, including:

• Instruments and information for assessing a community’s resilience and vulnerability;
• Suggestions for interviewing key informants;
• Information on finding and integrating existing community data;
• Approaches to conducting group conversations in the community;
• Descriptions (how/why) for creating infrastructure maps of neighborhoods;
• Guidance on creating community ecological maps to visualize relationships with community members;
• Information on conducting stakeholder analysis; and
• Methods for conducting an analysis of a community’s strengths, weaknesses, and threats.

Target Situation:

Public health professionals who seek tools and methods to assess a community’s demographics, potential for resilience to adverse events (disasters), and strengths and weaknesses, with a focus on community involvement to build plans for disaster prevention, mitigation, and recovery.

Case Studies:

Pfefferbaum, R L., Pfefferbaum, B., Zhao, Y.D., Van Horn, R.L., McCarter, G.S.M. & Leonard, M. B. (2016). Assessing community resilience: A CART survey application in an impoverished urban community. Disaster Health, 3(2), 45-56.

This study was conducted to use the assessment tools provided by the CART to assess a disadvantaged community’s resilience and see what demographic characteristics relate to a community’s potential for resilience. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5314893/external icon