What happens when the system doesn’t show up?

Every disaster exposes the same thing: the systems we’re told to trust are often the slowest to respond - and the quickest to retraumatize.

(Just like we procrastinate on preparedness, it seems the city does too by not always funding emergency preparedness programs, undercutting healthcare, defunding education, and underfunding critical infrastructure!)

And yet, communities respond anyway. Through care. Through creativity. Through connection.

Here’s how the Inclusive Community Preparedness Lab helps you turn community wisdom into strategic preparedness:

1. We prepare with memory So many communities are already living through long emergencies: colonization, displacement, systemic neglect.

Our work is to prepare with those memories - not ignore them - and address them in whatever way possible.

2. We respond with creativity Art heals. Storytelling educates. Music soothes. Humor disrupts panic.

Preparedness isn’t just about flashlights and canned beans - it’s about the tools that regulate our nervous systems and build connection. Connection is especially important when everything feels out of control.

3. We build trust before the crisis When disaster hits, you don’t want to be handing out business cards. You want to have already built relationships that can hold the stress.

We help you design prep work, and lean into care based relationships that start now - not later.

Join the the Inclusive Community Preparedness Lab. It helps turn the things you’re already doing - supporting, caregiving, storytelling - into strategies that sustain your people through crisis.

Starts May 21, 2025

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Because when systems fail, community responds. Let’s prepare accordingly.