A Matter of Semantics. Whole Community. March 2025

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‘WHOLE COMMUNITY’.

 

https://www.fema.gov/glossary/whole-community

 

https://emilms.fema.gov/is_0289/groups/50.html   The Whole Community Approach As a concept, Whole Community is a means by which residents, emergency management practitioners, organizational and community leaders, and government officials can collectively understand and assess the needs of their respective communities and determine the best ways to organize and strengthen their assets, capacities, and interests. VALs embody this concept of the Whole Community in their roles to connect different individuals and organizations to collectively work together in disasters. Source: FEMA. (2011, December) A Whole Community Approach to Emergency Management: Principles, Themes, and Pathways for Action. https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1813-25045-0649/whole_community_dec2011__2_.pdf