Healthy North Coast’s ‘Community Wellbeing and Resilience Program’ has been recognised for its efforts in building community health and wellbeing resilience in the face of increasing climate disasters, winning the Resilient Australia Mental Health and Wellbeing Award for NSW.
Healthy North Coast’s entry, titled ‘Climate Ready North Coast: Elevating the community service sector’, showcases the work being done, which resources community-led, place-based initiatives that support better health and wellbeing through disaster recovery, and future challenges.
Monika Wheeler, CEO of Healthy North Coast, said, ‘Northern NSW is one of the highest disaster declared regions in the country for frequency and severity across all three measures of fire, flood and storm. Together with South-East Queensland, our North Coast region has been labelled a disaster “hotspot”.’
‘For this reason, a connected, engaged and vibrant community who support each other in times of need is so important’, Ms Wheeler said.
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