Resilience Research & Action Areas

The most important aspect of doing community-based work is giving back to the communities whom we serve and supporting the neighborhoods we live in. It’s just called being a good neighbor! Throughout all the projects we do, we strive to give back and support communities in as many ways as we can. A big part of this is achieved through our Resilience Corps Leadership program, and the Kapi’olani Service and Sustainability Learning Program.

You can read more here or see photos of our Resilience Corps Leaders (RCLs) in action bringing their brilliance and resilience to different organizations across the island! See the Story Map of our RCLs impacts across the island.

A special mahalo and ongoing give back we also participate in is an ongoing program we call our Service Saturdays. Once a month our Resilience Corp Leaders, alumni, friends, and family members visit a different community center across the island for a day of service dedicated especially to our kupuna and seniors. This service work often looks like playing music, gardening, doing chores, or whatever is in need. Want us to come to you for a day of music and service at your center? Write us at cerene15@hawaii.edu.

The goal of this research is to identify 8 to16 possible sites for Community Resilience Hubs in each of the major planning areas of O’ahu. The Action 15 research is being conducted by researchers at CERENE in collaboration with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in partnership with the City and County Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resilience to build on the work of the Ola Resilience Strategy. Click HERE to meet the Action 15 Research Team!

This research project is focused on the Micronesian community perspective on resilience and explores community members’ experiences with natural disasters. This project is a student-led research initiative.

Micronesia, country in the western Pacific Ocean. It is composed of more than 600 islands and islets in the Caroline Islands archipelago and is divided roughly along cultural and linguistic lines into the states of—from west to east—Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae. The capital is Palikir, on the island of Pohnpei. ~Britannica

Here you will find resources for Farm to School programs in your local area. You can search by opportunity type, learner type or program type using the links in the left sidebar menu. This project is part of a student-led research initiative conducted in partnership with the Hawaiian Public Health Institute (HIPHI).

This project is a community-based approach to supporting localized energy resilience for the neighborhoods surrounding Lēʻahi (Diamond Head) and represents a neighborhood-scaled approach to grid resilience that might be replicated in other suitable locations on O’ahu.

This project includes both energy infrastructure and capacity-building components. The energy infrastructure component will complete a photovoltaic (PV) integrated microgrid at Kaimukī Middle School (KMS) by developing the ability to operate independently of the grid and adding battery back-up energy storage.

For the capacity building component, the Center for Resilient Neighborhoods will support the development of partnerships for this and similar long-term risk reduction projects. KMS will participate in the Diamond Head Post-Disaster Energy Back-up & Response working group facilitated by CERENE.

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