Resilient East Biloxi
The Resilient East Biloxi initiative partners with local community leaders to address chronic flood risk and resilience issues within the redevelopment plans for southeast Biloxi, Mississippi. The Community Resilience Center at the Water Institute is a key project partner of Resilient East Biloxi, and Director Renee Collini was a founding member.
The Challenge
Residents of East Biloxi have faced significant impacts from both natural and human-made climate disasters, which have continuously strained the area, compromising the community's social, natural, and economic well-being.
The Approach
To address these issues, Resilient East Biloxi hosts community leader training sessions and resident engagement events with the following objectives:
- Promote redevelopment that reflects and has a sense of ownership by the community.
- Provide space for community leaders to engage with and communicate resilience issues and solutions to residents.
- Develop strategies to skillfully and effectively direct solutions to address unbridled socioeconomic disadvantages
- Increase organizational capacity for the implementation and funding of community-led redevelopment projects.
- Promote collaboration across diverse organizations and leaders to address the social determinants of health for East Biloxi
The following are the Community Action Events supported by the Resilient East Biloxi Leadership Cohort
- Resilient East Biloxi: Annual Community Festival- Saturday, September 28th 2024
- Community Planting Days at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church- April 12th & 13th 2024
- Community Land Trust (CLT) Resident Meeting – Tuesday, September 19th 2023
- Inaugural Community Festival- Saturday, June 10th 2023
- Community Clean Up- March 18th 2023
- What’s Happening in East Biloxi: Community Expo- November 3rd 2022
- Safer, Stronger, More Resilient Housing in East Biloxi – June 2nd 2022
- Social Determinants of Health & the East Biloxi Redevelopment Project- March 17th 2022
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KEY TEAM MEMBERS
Dexter Ellis
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