FEMA National Resilience Guidance: A Collaborative Approach to Building Resilience

The National Resilience Guidance emphasizes that strengthening resilience requires a collective approach. A resilient nation is created and sustained through thriving communities with secure and adaptable social, economic, environmental, housing, infrastructure, and institutional systems. Addressing resilience from only one perspective or through only one resilience lens will not be successful.

With the goal of increasing community and national resilience, the Guidance:

• promotes a common understanding of resilience.
• emphasizes the critical relationship between chronic community stressors and acute shocks.
• addresses the resilience roles of individuals, organizations, and all levels of government.
• provides an actionable approach to resilience planning and implementation.
• incorporates a community resilience maturity model that walks through concrete steps to build resilience.