As we start recovery from COVID-19 and Hurricane Ida and reimagine resilience, we are pleased to partner with Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in deploying the COPEWELL tool. The Composite of Post-Event Well-Being (COPEWELL) is an evidence-based model and toolkit that communities can use to assess their disaster resilience and develop action plans to strengthen it. Along with our other asset-based tools, we will be deploying COPEWELL to drive conversations and foster collaboration in our COAD and LTR development work.

While there are many excellent community resilience models and tools used in research and practice that have helped inform development of the COPEWELL model, COPEWELL provides several unique contributions to the field:

• • The visual representation of the COPEWELL framework has practical utility for communities to create a shared understanding and drive conversations related to the elements and factors that influence community functioning and resilience.
  • COPEWELL focuses on a community’s post-disaster ability to deliver goods and services (i.e. community functioning).

COPEWELL is a “system dynamics model” of resilience. As such, it helps assess the many factors that influence resilience, as well as the relationships between those factors. It depicts the level of impact (i.e. resistance) and visualizes a timeline of recovery to a community’s new normal (i.e. a community’s restoration of functioning).

Want to learn more? Visit https://www.copewellmodel.org/.