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Register your interest for the Community Organisations Disaster Adaptation (CODA) Community of Practice

Community service organisations can take on many roles to support communities impacted by disasters and to help communities prepare. But what do these organisations need to meet the challenges of disasters and remain operating effectively?

The CODA Community of Practice focus areas are:
  1. Investigating the main roles (current and potential) of the NSW community service sector across the disaster management cycle – relief, recovery, mitigation and preparedness.
  2. Identifying the sector's resourcing and development needs to effectively undertake these roles.
About the CODA Community of Practice sessions:

When: CODA Community of Practice dates will be confirmed later in 2025.

Each session is:

  • 2 hours, online via Zoom
  • Includes a presentation from community service organisations providing disaster support, followed by workshopping & discussion
  • Session places will be limited
  • Notes and resources available to attendees after each session
  • Free!

There are four CODA Community of Practice sessions covering different themes.

  1. Disaster preparedness – people

Incorporating client disaster preparedness planning into service delivery

  1. After the disaster – immediate relief & recovery
    • Role/s of community service organisations
    • Balancing disaster support and business-as-usual
  1. Disaster Mitigation

Who is most at risk? Identifying and supporting the communities most at risk from disasters.

  1. Disaster preparedness - organisations

What is required to ensure organisations are disaster ready?

You can attend all sessions or pick the sessions that are most relevant to you.

Who should attend?
  • Community service organisation managers and staff.
  • These sessions benefit from input from attendees to shape understanding and action on the role of the community sector in providing disaster support.
  • Your experience or knowledge as a community service worker who has provided disaster support or engaged in organisational or sector planning to enable disaster support will be an essential element of the Community of Practice sessions.

For more information, contact Eleanor Harris, eleanor@ncoss.org.au. For more information on disaster support, check out the NCOSS Disaster Support pages.

Complete your expression of interest here:

CODA Community of Practice Expression of Interest

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