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  • Community Resilience
  • Workforce Development
  • Disaster Adaptation

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  • Community resilience is vital for adapting to challenges and acute disasters.
  • Gaps persist in current research and practice for enhancing community resilience.
  • Developing a specialized, resilience-oriented workforce is a critical next step.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review existing literature on resilience-oriented workforces.
  • To identify key components of such workforces, including organizational structures, training, and leadership.
  • To highlight areas for future research and development in this field.

Main Methods:

  • Narrative review of existing literature.
  • Inclusion of various study types: needs assessments, program evaluations, reviews, and commentaries.
  • Focus on organizational structures, training/education, and leadership models.

Main Results:

  • A resilience-oriented workforce requires a collaborative organizational model with information-sharing structures.
  • Training programs must be interdisciplinary to reflect the diverse nature of a resilience workforce.
  • Leadership should balance workforce autonomy with collective operational needs.

Conclusions:

  • Optimal strategies for developing a resilience-oriented workforce are not yet fully realized.
  • Future research should focus on data synthesis and evaluation to advance this field.
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration and adaptive leadership are key to building community resilience.