Resilient Vermont Network
The Resilient Vermont Network (RVT) was first formed experimentally in 2015 under the direction of the Institute for Sustainable Communities. From 2017, under the leadership of the Center for Global Resilience and Security (CGRS) at ҹɫСÊÓƵ, RVT embarked on a new phase of coordinating and supporting resilience work in Vermont.
Since 2017, CGRS has also supported the RVT by hosting professional development workshops for Community Resilience Organizations (CROs), participating in Vermont's State Hazard Mitigation planning process, including hosting a working group meeting, and leading the development of an Academic Resilience Collaborative (ARC) that would bring Vermont researchers into communities to minimize or solve Vermont's resilience challenges.
Resilient Vermont Conference
Resilient Vermont 2025: Securing Resilient Communities
Bring together community and university partners to explore the problems, solutions, and pathways to implementation for some of the wicked challenges that threaten the resilience of our communities in Vermont and beyond.
The conference will be organized around the following ideas:
- We are thinking about what actually makes the Resilient VT network resilient, which we think involves more regular, casual engagement among stakeholders.
- We want to use today as an opportunity to do some learning, brainstorming, and visioning for the future of this entity
- Please use today as an opportunity to think about how the Resilient VT network can serve your communities and lend your voice/energy/capacity during lunch.
Agenda
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Friday
8:30-9 a.m. | Check In
9-9:15 a.m. | Welcome
ҹɫСÊÓƵ Center for Global Resilience & Security Director, Dr. Kahwa Douoguih, will frame the day and discuss the future of the Resilient Vermont Network.9:15-10 a.m. | Keynote Panel
10:30-11:15 a.m. | Resilience in Uncertain Times
11:15 a.m.-Noon | Collaboratives & Collaboration as a Tool for Resilience
Noon-1 p.m. | Working Lunch
- LinkedIn/social media/outreach
- Events/workshops - start with data, etc.
- Disaster exercise/resilience
1-2 p.m. | Post-lunch Networking Session
Past Conferences
A Resilient Vermont conference brings together community leaders, neighbors and groups that are working to strengthen Vermont's resilience to climate change and other challenges. The conference helps people connect, learn about success stories and best practices, and gain skills and resources to boost resilience on the ground. Geared toward municipal leaders, organizations and agencies working on resilience, the conference addresses social, environmental, economic and physical strategies for helping our communities reduce impacts on people, places, and property, and recover faster after disasters.
Resilient Vermont 2024: After the Floods
The Vermont floods in the summer of 2023 highlighted the broad and ongoing need for investments in systems that support our health, safety, and wellbeing. This conference drew from a range of novel perspectives on resilience, while challenging our attendees to see how the insights and tools derived from these perspectives can be incorporated into our response to environmental, social, and economic threats.
Resilient Vermont 2022: Looking to the Past to Plan for the Future
A conference for Vermonters seeking to engage with each other, their communities, and the state at large through meaningful and interdisciplinary discussions and problem-solving, as we looked to the past to plan for our future.