Cuervo Isabel, Leopold Les, Baron Sherry
Isabel Cuervo and Sherry Baron are with the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY. Les Leopold is with the Labor Institute, New York, NY.
Am J Public Health. 2017 Sep;107(S2):S161-S164. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304053.
As community residents and recovery workers, Latino immigrants play important roles after disasters, yet are rarely included in preparedness planning. A community-university-labor union partnership created a demonstration project after Hurricane Sandy to strengthen connections to disaster preparedness systems to increase community resilience among Latino immigrant communities in New York and New Jersey. Building ongoing ties that connect workers and community-based organizations with local disaster preparedness systems provided mutual benefits to disaster planners and local immigrant communities, and also had an impact on national disaster-related initiatives.
作为社区居民和恢复工作者,拉丁裔移民在灾难后发挥着重要作用,但在备灾规划中却很少被纳入。一个社区-大学-工会合作伙伴关系在桑迪飓风过后创建了一个示范项目,以加强与灾难备灾系统的联系,增强纽约和新泽西州拉丁裔移民社区的社区复原力。建立起将工人和社区组织与当地灾难备灾系统联系起来的持续纽带,为灾难规划者和当地移民社区带来了互利,同时也对国家与灾难相关的倡议产生了影响。