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Building community resilience and regeneration is what we do.
We educate, train, inform, support, mentor, implement, respond, research, influence, partner with and facilitate connections.
We’re rolling out a pilot CCR (Community Carers and Responders) project in Queensland!
Plan C is now establishing a pilot Community Carers and Responders (CCR) Network in the Mary River catchment QLD (namely Gympie, Maryborough and Noosa Regional Council local government areas).
The CCR Network aims to increase the preparedness, response, recovery of participating communities, and in doing so enhance mental health, social capital, and disaster resilience of participating individuals and communities.
Please visit our FAQs page for more information about the program.
This pilot project is funded thanks to Country to Coast Queensland (CCQ), a Primary Health Network and a registered charity. Stay tuned!
NextGen Navigators: our way to strengthen youth disaster resilience
Our FREE NextGen Navigators program is specifically designed for young people to understand what to do before, during and after a disaster. This program is available to participants aged 17 to 24-years. Gain practical skills that equip you with real-world capabilities. At the end of the program you will receive:
Psychological First Aid certificate
First Aid Kit
NextGen Navigators cap
Plan C certificate of completion.
Learn about:
Disaster Resilience Training for the four phases of disaster response
Practical First Aid
Psychological First Aid
Bushcraft Skills
Community Youth Inspired Projects
Future opportunities
Connecting with like-minded people
Community Youth Inspired Projects: As part of the NextGen Navigator program you will be supported in designing and implementing a small community building project in your own community. Examples could include volunteering for Plan C in delivering this program, teaching disaster resilience skills to a group of friends, creating an awareness raising video for social media, creating a WhatsApp group among neighbours or continuing to build your own disaster resilience skills by joining an emergency service agency (RFS, SES, etc.).
Apply here:
If you have any questions about the program or why this may be of benefit to you, contact rena@planc.org.au
Rising Together
Thanks to the generous support of the Northern Rivers Community Foundation, we are hosting 11 empowering events aimed at supporting our community to transition from flood recovery to disaster resilience.
The Rising Together gatherings will take place across the 7 Northern Rivers LGAs. They will give you a chance to make connections, exchange insights on community challenges, and bolster our resilience together. We have been collaborating with community members to make these gatherings meaningful for YOUR community. At each gathering we will also have time to share stories and good food. Find out more here:
Is the Northern Rivers food system resilient?
In the face of already numerous adversities, the Northern Rivers of NSW is grappling with yet another concern: food security. Floods, bushfires, and the ongoing impact of the COVID pandemic have exposed vulnerabilities in the area's food system.
We have conducted a new study, in partnership with UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures and Wild Community, and with funding from the Northern Rivers Community Foundation, to address these issues by exploring the state of food chains in the Northern Rivers.
One of the major findings of the study is the lack of a coordinated government approach to disaster food security, with the burden of addressing food insecurity falling on the community.
Our study presents ten key recommendations for transitioning to a circular food economy in the Northern Rivers.
Facing Up: how do we live in the midst of the climate and ecological crises?
JOIN the conversation!
Facing Up was a series of trauma-informed conversations that focused on the social, economic, cultural, political, emotional and spiritual consequences of the ecological crisis.
In a series of public conversations, held monthly from March to November 2023, some of Australia’s leading thinkers considered our place in a rapidly transformed world, and how we might think, feel and act in ways that are grounded, empowering and life-affirming.
We invite you to listen to the recordings of these ground-breaking conversations here.
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