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Welcome! We’re so glad you are interested in working with us. The RAFT is a 3-university partnership that supports Virginia localities in their efforts to become more resilient. To build resilience, localities need capacities in a wide variety of areas, such as:

  • Emergency Management
  • Infrastructure
  • Economic Development
  • Floodplain & Stormwater Management
  • Planning & Policy
  • Public Health

The 3-Step Process:

Step 1: Holistic Assessment of Locality’s Resilience

  • Aims to make a simple, accessible, & objective assessment​ using qualitative & quantitative methods

Step 2: Helping the Community Set Priorities

  • Uses community workshop​s to create a Resilience Action Checklist (RAC)

Step 3: Implementation

  • Implementation Team (partners in community and at university, including relevant faculty affiliates) works to pursue RAC items​

Read More about the RAFT process >>

Resilience is the capacity to anticipate threats, reduce a community’s vulnerability, and respond to and recover from hazardous events and chronic stresses.

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The RAFT team is so glad that you are interested in working with us to support community-driven resilience work in Virginia. In order to assess whether your interests align with The RAFT process, we ask that you fill out the interest form below. This will help us get to know you better so we can be prepared when we reach out!

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This website, Task # 92.03 was funded by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program at the Department of Environmental Quality through Grant # NA17NOS4190152 
of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended. The views expressed
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This project is currently a partnership between the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the University of Virginia, the Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience at Old Dominion University, and the Center for Coastal Studies at Virginia Tech. The former Virginia Coastal Policy Center at the William & Mary Law School participated in this partnership from 2015 until June 2023.

 

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