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Mitigation — Everyone Can Do It

ACROSS FLORIDA, community-based organizations are coming together with local businesses and emergency management agencies to develop projects designed to prevent or minimize losses from disasters. This process, called mitigation, is often most successful when two or more organizations identify a local mitigation need and pool their resources to solve the problem.

Mitigation can take many forms. For example, a partnership between Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross and a building supply company made it possible to build safe rooms in Habitat homes. In another area, a Rotary Club, local government and a school district teamed up to purchase and install Tornado Warning Sirens near the county’s schools. Elsewhere, volunteers from a Baptist church partnered with the American Red Cross to provide inexpensive hurricane shutters to protect homes in a low-income neighborhood from storm damage.