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American Red Cross urges community partnerships to expand disaster response capacity
Summary
The Red Cross representative told the commission its future strategy emphasizes local partnerships and training community members to increase preparedness and scale responses without over‑relying on outside resources.
An American Red Cross official briefed the Mountlake Terrace DEI Commission on a shift toward “community mobilization” to strengthen local disaster preparedness and response.
“Community mobilization… means that instead of acting upon the community and, you know, rushing in to do all of this, that we are developing those partnerships within the community to help us deliver this,” the…
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