'Resilient communities' is an 8-module community education program that engages the Byron Shire community to strengthen disaster preparedness and resilience. Participants become facilitators who are trained to empower and train their own community to implement projects that build their resilience and regeneration. It focuses on addressing resilience challenges including climate change; fire and ecosystem; water; food; energy; infrastructure; economy; and health.

Participants are required to commit to complete all 8 modules, and, as part of it, facilitate (with our support and alongside other facilitators) 7 workshops on these topics with their local community.

The first training module will take place on the 23rd of May (all day) and the second one on the 29th of May (afternoon). Subsequent modules will then occur on a monthly basis. In between attending these modules, participants will be asked to facilitate, with our support, a monthly workshop with their community. The dates of these workshops will be agreed together later.

'Resilient communities' is implemented by Resilient Byron in partnership with
OzGreen and thanks to funding provided by the Northern Rivers Community Foundation.

OzGreen is a multi-award winning community organisation with three decades of experience in community development in Australia and overseas. https://www.ozgreen.org/rc

Resilient Byron is charity which ambition is to bring together residents of the Byron Shire and Northern Rivers at large, via a web of neighbourhoods organised as interconnected areas of local resilience, supported by residents organised in thematic groups (Indigenous resilience, food security, water security, housing security, energy security, health & well-being, safety & emergency). https://www.resilientbyron.org

NRCF is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of those less fortunate in our community, either from economic circumstances, mental illness, disability, learning difficulties or drug/alcohol addictions. https://nrcf.org.au