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This paper presents a project which focuses on identifying those resources and actions that may contribute to household resilience. The building of household resilience must be an everyday and sustained activity, since preparedness actions take time to implement, and emergency events are frequently of sudden onset and unexpected. This has led to the development of an assessment and referral tool that can be used by householders to build an understanding of their risks and awareness of relevant resources and services; thus raising their commitment to taking positive action.

With sufficient hazard, risk and resource information, there is a good opportunity for a variety of community service groups to become involved in the work of building household (and therefore community) resilience. This involvement may be directed to existing client groups that tend to be among the more vulnerable members of the community. Alternatively, it may be through deployment of a local volunteer workforce in a new community service activity that works from household to household through targeted local groups where the risk profile or other factors make the neighbourhood more susceptible in emergency or disaster events.

Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Volume 30, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 51-54. The Australian Journal of Emergency Management by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience is licensed under a .