GALILEE RESILIENCE CENTER

A Resilience Center is a place of support and refuge.  It connects neighbors to resources and services that can help them to be prepared for disruptions in their daily life–including daily challenges and special emergencies (like severe weather).

Resilience Centers are not evacuation centers, and they don’t provide overnight services.  If our neighborhood comes under an evacuation order, we all need to go; but in non-evacuation situations, a resilience center can provide things like:

• daytime cooling or warming facilities for humans and crated pets
• charging stations for technology 
• Internet access 
• refrigeration for medications
• activities for families with children 
• friendly support and encouragement.

During non-emergency periods—most of the time!—resilience centers connect neighbors to services, offer resources, build wellness- and resilience-related skills, and strengthen community relationships.  

Our close neighbors can use the center for appropriate gatherings such as wellness classes, game nights, and more!

 Neighbors need to look out for neighbors, because neighborhoods with stronger relationships are more resilient at all times—but especially when emergency strikes.  Resilience Centers help neighbors get to know one another and prepare to stay safely at home, or evacuate safely, in times of trouble.

 No.  Lake County is developing several Resilience Centers, each supporting the neighborhood immediately surrounding the center (its “hyper-local community”).  These will each be housed in community buildings owned by trusted religious congregations or other non-profits.  Like spokes of a wheel, all of these centers will be connected to a main Resilience Hub, as well.  

Well, no and yes.  It is a service to our community, hosted by the congregation, but it is not a religious offering: you won’t be preached to and you don’t have to be part of the church to receive services or even to volunteer.  ELCA Lutherans do service, not proselytizing!  Resilience Centers are a public service, being offered in many kinds of buildings.  Ours just happens to be owned by a church.