Ironbound Community Corporation

ICC will work comprehensively to address climate resiliency, through a combination of resident engagement and targeted interventions that build off of green neighborhood assessments already undertaken or underway. This work will build off of existing efforts and bring together a diverse cross-section of stakeholders. Green neighborhood assessments have been created to include recommendations for implementation and ideas on how to make homes, businesses, and schools more sustainable and less susceptible to climate change impacts. Social resiliency will also be strengthened amongst residents in the Ironbound, where residents will be trained as block captains, who can help their neighbors in times of need and help refer neighbors to appropriate resources. This work will build on disaster preparedness and response plans, with communications tools, that ICC has already created. These plans included media packets, maps, emergency kits, brochures and flyers in Spanish, Portuguese, and English that are all easily understood. Plans have been shared with the Newark Office of Emergency Management and then incorporated into the City’s Long Term Emergency Preparedness Plan.