Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART ... - OU Medicine

CART stimulates communication, analysis, and action, and it contributes to community
participation and collaboration, community self-awareness, critical reflection, and skill
development. CART encourages public engagement in problem solving and the
development and use of local assets to address community needs. CART is designed to
strengthen and empower communities, not to compare or rank them.
CART Domains
CART addresses four overlapping, interrelated domains that both describe and affect
community resilience:
Connection and Caring
Resources
Transformative Potential
Disaster Management
CART Integrated System
Includes participation, relatedness, shared values,
support systems, a sense of fairness, and hope.
Includes natural, physical, human, financial, and
social resources.
Includes the ability to identify and frame
collective experiences, data collection and
analysis, planning, and skill building that create
the potential for community change.
Includes disaster prevention and mitigation,
preparedness, response, and recovery
The CART process typically begins with an assessment survey that addresses the four
resilience domains, participants’ personal relationship to their community, demographics
of respondents, and additional concerns developed in conjunction with community
partners. The CART survey provides a snapshot of strengths and challenges that are
meaningful for the particular community and the organizations participating in the
process. Survey results can be used to develop a community profile that describes the
community from the perspective of respondents. The initial survey is followed by a series
of meetings in which participants interpret survey findings within the context of their
community and identify potential information gaps. Other assessment instruments
described herein can be used to refine the profile as needed.
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