Understand your community’s vulnerabilities and risks.
There are many ways to assess your community’s vulnerabilities and risks to current and future changes. Depending on your capacity or need, you may choose to define the current and future risks and vulnerabilities of your community using scenario planning exercises, or at a deeper level with a full vulnerability and/or risk assessment. The goal is to define the current and future potential shocks, stressors, and cascading impacts that your community could experience.
Need additional support? The Colorado Resiliency Office (CRO) helps communities to understand and define their vulnerabilities and risks to current and future shocks and stressors. If you would like assistance in your resilience or scenario planning work, be sure to connect with your DOLA Regional Manager.
For more information, see Step 3 of the Community Readiness and Resilience Toolkit. Also, use the disaster profiles tab in the Pre-disaster Planning Workbook. In addition, for more clarity on current and future shocks and stressors, use the shocks and stressors, assess vulnerability, assess risk, risk matrix, and vulnerability specific templates in the Pre-disaster Planning Workbook.