Women Prepare – Weather the Storm
Resilience Building Program for Women living in disaster prone
areas
The Federal Government’s Office for Women funded the National
Rural Women’s Coalition to develop this project as an emerging issue during
2011-12. This 15-hour program brings women in a community together, to share ideas,
experiences and beliefs about living with the risk of disasters. It has been
delivered in pilot form in three communities affected by natural
disasters.
To steer and guide and development and delivery of the program a Program
Working Group was established. This was a mix of organisations and individuals
from across Australia who were interested in the program and able to bring
skills, experience and perspective to the issue. This group acted as resource
and provided input from a broad range expertise and experience for the project.
For the second and third deliveries of the program a smaller sub group
including Tracey Wilson and coordinator Kate came together by teleconference on
a regular basis, to work through the session plans and provide support and
guidance to the coordinator.