Strengthening Resilient Communities: How to Use Main Street’s Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Toolkit
December 5, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Speaker
Manuel Ochoa,
Principal and Founder of the Ochoa Urban Collaborative
Not sure how to prepare for the next disaster or wondering how to make your downtown or neighborhood district more resilient? Get a first-hand look at Main Street America’s (MSA) new Disaster Preparedness & Resilience Toolkit and learn the basic steps your organization can take to develop a disaster preparedness plan, how your organization can be a key partner in recovery, and find funding for building resilient infrastructure. Join Manuel Ochoa, one of the toolkits co-authors, who will provide highlights of Main Street America’s toolkit with strategies, small steps, advice, and case studies that will help your community plan, prepare, respond, and recover in the face of increasing natural disasters.
Manuel T. Ochoa is Principal and Founder of the Ochoa Urban Collaborative, a planning, community and economic development firm with an equity lens that provides strategy, policy, and implementation services to help people, neighborhoods, and communities revitalize and thrive. Manuel has worked around the country on issues of gentrification and displacement, disaster recovery, and housing policy. With 30 years of experience, Manuel brings a unique mix of experience in both the non-profit and government sectors. Manuel served as a senior official at the US HUD for seven years. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
