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Collaborative Community Vulnerability Assessment for North Charleston.
Citation:
Whitlock, S., S. Johnson, N. Kajumba, C. Bhat, R. Kay, A. Vargo, K. Naney, S. Buzzelle, J. Daniels, S. Good, AND B. Holtzclaw. Collaborative Community Vulnerability Assessment for North Charleston. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/S-21/026, 2021.
Impact/Purpose:
U.S. EPA worked with the Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC) to apply EPA’s Inland Port Community Resilience Roadmap to conduct a collaborative community vulnerability assessment for North Charleston.
Description:
Region 4 and Low Country Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC) organized a community resilience workshop in North Charleston, South Carolina in November 2018. LAMC is a nonprofit organization founded for the purpose of advocating EJ and promoting community development, education, employment, quality housing, and community involvement for seven historic neighborhoods. This workshop focused on the Union Heights community to introduce the EPA Inland Port Community Resilience Roadmap and develop a shared understanding of community resilience goals and objectives, articulate community resilience challenges and opportunities, support existing resilience activities in the community, and identify feasible resilience strategies. As a follow-up to the North Charleston Community Resilience Workshop, EPA and LAMC held a working session and community resource fair in FY 2019 to develop an actionable implementation plan for North Charleston and share key resources with the community to help them address the resilience challenges and solutions. EPA and other federal and state agencies shared resources related to the community’s environment, health, housing, transportation, economic opportunity, and community partnership objectives, such as EPA’s Healthy Environmental Actions Database.