UW Workshop: Working with Vulnerable Populations for Greater Community Resilience (5/30/23)
Posted: 5/19/2023 (Demography News)
This workshop will focus on scholarship and strategies to reduce homelessness, expand personal mobility, and lessen risks of natural disaster, especially for underserved and vulnerable communities. Our focus will be unified by an overall approach on improving resilience and health. We will bring together researchers from a variety of fields spanning engineering, social sciences, health, and humanities to discuss with civic and community stakeholders the challenges cities face and develop ideas addressing three themes:
Homelessness and Equity
o Connecting and leveraging efforts across the public/private/nonprofit sectors
o Reducing barriers to building and accessing housing
o Wealth building to reduce housing needs
Mobility and Health
o Mobility solutions that respond to climate change, natural disasters, and health
o Equitable development and mobility
o Vulnerable populations and transit access
Resilience
o Meeting the needs of the unhoused via disaster preparedness
o Addressing social and climate resilience through disaster preparedness
o Building networks to support preparedness
Learn more and register
Date: 05/30/2023
Location: Walker Ames room (225), Kane Hall, UW Seattle campus