Step 1: Form a Collaborative Planning Team
Step 2: Understand the Situation
Assessing Energy System Dependencies
How Communities Can Work with Communication Service Providers to Understand Communication Systems
Step 3: Determine Goals and Objectives
Step 4: Plan Development
Identifying Solutions to Address Resilience Gaps
Step 5: Plan Preparation, Review, and Approval
Step 6: Plan Implementation and Maintenance
Credit: NIST
Goals of the Community Resilience Planning Guide Briefs:
The Guide Briefs provide methods and best practices to support community resilience planning for topics such as:
- Establishing performance goals for buildings and infrastructure systems essential to community resilience
- Characterizing the community physical and social systems
- Forming the community resilience team and identifying stakeholders Evaluating the anticipated performance of buildings and infrastructure lifelines
- Identifying alternative solutions to support community resilience goals
The Guide Briefs provide additional rationale, guidance, and references for implementing the six steps in the planning process. This approach provides a mechanism to easily provide additional guidance and information as it becomes available.