2018-04-10 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 4 - Local Disaster Recovery Subplan

Prioritise needs for affected community and for recovery operations:
 Safety
 Water and food
 Psychological first aid
 Emergency accommodation
 Personal needs
 Reuniting families
 Material and financial
 Transport
 Health and medical
 Communication
 Information
 Community meeting spaces and connectivity
 Culturally specific needs

Medium term recovery
Conduct medium-term recovery needs assessment:
 Psychosocial support
 Temporary accommodation
 Material and financial support
 Health and medical
 Communication
 Information
 Assistance with recovery processes e.g. grants, insurance, clean-up
 Community meeting spaces and connectivity
 Culturally specific needs
 If required, implement outreach programs
 Ensure that displaced persons are connected and able to re-engage with their ‘home’
   communities
 Provide psychosocial support mechanisms
 Provide support and resources to enable people to access services, including interpreters to
   cater for cultural and linguistic diversity, resources for people with mobility, vision and hearing
   impairment and for people with a cognitive disability
 Consider the needs of tourists and persons from interstate and overseas
 Ensure that planning and implementation of services and activities maintain an awareness of
   cultural implications for various groups
 If established, coordinate the management and operation of recovery centres
 Monitor and manage public health advice, safety and disease control
 Assistance to local community organisations to help them recovery and maintain services

Long term recovery
 Food and water supply
 Safety and security
 Access to private, self-contained accommodation for displaced persons
 Restoration of personal health and clinical services
 Management of public health issues
 Ensure that persons with special needs are not forgotten in planning processes
 Establish systems for ongoing psychological and emotional support for affected persons
 Ensure the redevelopment of social networks and connections
 Establish ongoing information provision




Noosa Local Disaster Recovery Subplan 2018                                                   Page 47