Villa Health Disaster
Recovery Plan
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Introduction
• A disaster is an undesired catastrophic event that affects community
health outcomes.
• Disasters range from pandemics to high magnitude train accidents.
• These events have detrimental community heath effects.
• Nurses are essential agents in developing recovery processes and
plans.
• This project presents Valley City community disaster recovery plan.

The community
• This project looks at the case of Valley City. The community comprises
numerous populations based on age, gender and race.
• The current challenges are represented through the disaster that
happened years ago.
• The train disaster affected multiple populations leading to
homelessness while undermining their overall relationships in health
and social outcomes.
• Considering the disaster, it is worth creating a recovery plan to
promote wellness and empower the community socially.

Community needs assessment
• Valley City is comprised of numerous populations like whites, blacks and
Latino.
• These communities have diverse health needs with some being homeless
while others physically disabled.
• Additionally, when the disaster happened, it affected the community
negatively with some people being rendered homeless.
• Further, since the train accident, the community`s health systems were
overwhelmed leading to reduced services delivery.
• The community has limited resources to foster better response to the
disaster effects like finances, health interventions due to poverty and
existing disparities.

Resources, responsibilities and roles
• Following the disaster, the community will benefit from a reliable
intervention in line with the program roles and responsibilities.
• 1. the government
• 2. doctors
• 3. Nurses and community health practitioners
• 4. educators
• Their primary roles will reflect on providing resources like education,
medical interventions and federal interventions according to the
community needs.

The MAP-IT approach
• In the first step, the team will mobilize the available resources from the
primary partners.
• The team will focus on collecting essential data about the target
community to deliver quality interventions.
• The second step will collect community needs considering the elderly,
physically disabled, homeless and immigrants.
• However, it is worth classifying the community using the triage framework.
• On the same note, contact tracing will be considered in this stage where
local data carriers and governments will be used in contacting the
community members (Hipper, et al. 2018).

Description and application
• In the planning stage, the team will create a reliable intervention
following the five months schedule.
• The implementation process will involve education, awareness
campaigns and health interventions to counter community
challenges.
• The tracking stage will allow the teams to work with local
communities and governments in tracking the affected populations
following the disaster.

Reducing disparities
• Reducing the community health disparities will be achieved through
various interventions:
• 1. Providing educational interventions and material
• 2. Implementing community based programs
• 3. Progressive community support through financial, educational and
psychological solutions.

Healthy people 2020 goals attainment
• Achieving the intended goals will require the team to focus on the
healthy people 2020 and 2030 goals.
• The community following the disaster suffered diverse challenges like
mental health and displacement (Miotto, Sanford, Brymer, Bursch &
Pynoos, 2020).
• Promoting mental health
• Ensuring equity in resources access
• Community empowerment will promote awareness and health
outcomes.

Community trace mapping
• The government is an essential player in the contact tracing and
community health intervention processes.
• The contact trace mapping will be performed by various players like
the government, carrier companies and neighborhood groups.
• These teams will deliver valuable frameworks for identifying and
following up the victims and enrolling more people into the programs.

Conclusion
• Disasters usually happen affecting the community`s health outcomes.
• The disaster in the community negatively affected its health
outcomes considering the perceived trends in the overall wellness.
• Some of the people were physically injured while multiple casualties
were reported.
• The survivors have various challenges in disparities in addition to
homelessness.
• The program above focuses on community empowerment improving
the overall livelihood the underlying population reported.

References
• Miotto, K., Sanford, J., Brymer, M. J., Bursch, B., & Pynoos, R. S.
(2020). Implementing an emotional support and mental health response
plan for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (Vol. 12, No. S1,
p. S165). Educational Publishing Foundation.
• Hipper, T. J., Davis, R., Massey, P. M., Turchi, R. M., Lubell, K. M., Pechta, L.
E., ... & Chernak, E. (2018). The disaster information needs of families of
children with special healthcare needs: a scoping review. Health
security, 16(3), 178-192.
• Pineda, V. S., & Corburn, J. (2020). Disability, urban health equity, and the
coronavirus pandemic: promoting cities for all. Journal of Urban
Health, 97(3), 336-341.