Community Resilience Hub framework with five components:

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Community Desire and Support: Programming that promotes Deaf community preparedness, social cohesion, and improves the health and wellbeing of the sign language community. 

A Resilience Hub can only be effective if community members actively engage in co-development, understand the resources and services it provides, trust and wish to visit the location and trust the people managing the site, and understand how the Resilience Hub can benefit them before, during, and after a major disruption. 

The Buildings: Strengthen the resilience of a facility/program/organization to ensure that it meets operational goals to respond to their bioregion climate hazards.

An existing well-used and well-trusted site (building) is the core of a resilience hub. The best sites are those that are in fairly good condition and can support other critical elements such as solar and energy storage systems. There are several site elements to consider when identifying a good site. 

Energy Systems: Ensure reliable, cost-effective, and sustainability of operations for Deaf community benefits.

Resilience hubs need to host cost-effective onsite power systems capable of reliability sustaining operations during an extended power outage. While the nature and duration of power outages will vary from region to region, the system should consider an outage of up to 72 hours. Installation of appropriate onsite power systems must be clearly understood, scalable, and replicable.

Community Uses: Ability to communicate effectively within and outside the service area with total communication access as the goal for intergenerational and multicultural families that reside in bioregions. (Oneearth.org definition of bioregion: a geographical area defined not by political boundaries but by ecological systems). 

Resilience Hubs, defined and led in partnership with members of the community, should meet the unique needs of residents and organizations in that bioregion. This means that no two Resilience Hubs are likely to be identical. It could be a gathering place for group activities, sites to access information, and centers where social support services are offered. 

Resources to Meet Community Needs During Extreme Events: Identify, develop, and implement personnel & processes to operate before, during and after a natural and human-caused climate disaster including but not limited to: wildfires, hurricane, drought, flooding, earthquakes and extreme heat.

In addition to providing shelter and electricity, each Resilience Hub should maintain a supply of and provide access to freshwater and resources such as food, ice, refrigeration, charging stations, basic medical supplies, and other supplies needed in the event of an emergency. 

Resilience Hubs can provide critical communication and information functions that help educate community members about hazards, i.e. Emergency Alerts Systems