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Pfefferbaum RL, Pfefferbaum B, Zhao YD, et al. Assessing community resilience: A CART survey application in an impoverished urban community. Disaster Health. 2016;3(2):45-56doi: 10.1080/21665044.2016.1189068.
Pfefferbaum, R. L., Pfefferbaum, B., Zhao, Y. D., Van Horn, R. L., McCarter, G. S., & Leonard, M. B. (2016). Assessing community resilience: A CART survey application in an impoverished urban community. Disaster health, 3(2), 45-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/21665044.2016.1189068
Pfefferbaum, Rose L, et al. "Assessing community resilience: A CART survey application in an impoverished urban community." Disaster health vol. 3,2 (2016): 45-56. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/21665044.2016.1189068
Pfefferbaum RL, Pfefferbaum B, Zhao YD, Van Horn RL, McCarter GS, Leonard MB. Assessing community resilience: A CART survey application in an impoverished urban community. Disaster Health. 2016 May 13;3(2):45-56. doi: 10.1080/21665044.2016.1189068. eCollection 2016. PMID: 28229014; PMCID: PMC5314893.
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Disaster Health. 2016 May 13;3(2):45-56. doi: 10.1080/21665044.2016.1189068. eCollection 2016.

Assessing community resilience: A CART survey application in an impoverished urban community.

Disaster health

Rose L Pfefferbaum, Betty Pfefferbaum, Yan D Zhao, Richard L Van Horn, Grady S Mack McCarter, Michael B Leonard

Affiliations

  1. Terrorism and Disaster Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA; Department of Liberal Arts, Phoenix Community College, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
  2. Terrorism and Disaster Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
  3. Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center , Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
  4. Terrorism and Disaster Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center , Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
  5. Community Renewal International , Shreveport, LA, USA.

PMID: 28229014 PMCID: PMC5314893 DOI: 10.1080/21665044.2016.1189068

Abstract

This article describes an application of the Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART) Assessment Survey which has been recognized as an important community tool to assist communities in their resilience-building efforts. Developed to assist communities in assessing their resilience to disasters and other adversities, the CART survey can be used to obtain baseline information about a community, to identify relative community strengths and challenges, and to re-examine a community after a disaster or post intervention. This article, which describes an application of the survey in a community of 5 poverty neighborhoods, illustrates the use of the instrument, explicates aspects of community resilience, and provides possible explanations for the results. The paper also demonstrates how a community agency that serves many of the functions of a broker organization can enhance community resilience. Survey results suggest various dimensions of community resilience (as represented by core CART community resilience items and CART domains) and potential predictors. Correlates included homeownership, engagement with local entities/activities, prior experience with a personal emergency or crisis while living in the neighborhood, and involvement with a community organization that focuses on building safe and caring communities through personal relationships. In addition to influencing residents' perceptions of their community, it is likely that the community organization, which served as a sponsor for this application, contributes directly to community resilience through programs and initiatives that enhance social capital and resource acquisition and mobilization.

Keywords: CART; CART Assessment Survey; CART survey; broker organization; community assessment; community resilience; community resilience assessment; disaster resilience

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