Colorado Resiliency Office
The Colorado Resiliency Office’s (CRO) goal is to support a long-term adaptable and vibrant future for all Coloradans by building stronger, safer, and more resilient systems in the face of natural disasters and other shocks and stressors.
Here you will find a variety of tools, resources, and information to help empower your community to become more resilient in the face of changing conditions.
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Who is the CRO?
The CRO helps communities increase their adaptive capacity through resiliency planning.
The Colorado Resiliency Office (CRO), part of the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) Division of Local Government, helps communities understand the shocks and stresses they face, make connections across sectors to leverage resources and ideas, develop solutions that address multiple challenges, and build adaptability and preparedness into plans. We coordinate and collaborate across State agencies and with local, state, federal, private, and non-governmental partners to ensure that Colorado communities are resilient to disruptions and adapt to changing environmental, social, and economic conditions.
Programs
+ Resilient Colorado Communities
Resilient communities are able to adapt and thrive no matter what disruptions they face. CRO staff are experts in the fields of adaptation and resilience. We offer a range of support for local training and technical assistance services.
+ Roadmap Program
The Roadmap Program offers communities an opportunity to work together to support diversifying and strengthening their economies while building their region’s resiliency.
+ Rural Prosperity Work
Prosperity is a key focus of the CRO’s core mission. The Rural Prosperity strategy supports economic resilience and diversification in rural communities and helps communities navigate change and economic transitions, disruptions, and recovery.
+ Peer Exchange
The CRO hosts a virtual Local Government Peer Exchange for Colorado county and municipal leaders and recovery teams who are working to advance resiliency and recovery around Colorado.
Learn
What is resiliency? Why does it matter?
To truly answer this question, it is important to first identify your community's risks and understand your community’s exposures and sensitivities.
Next, read the updated 2020 Colorado Resiliency Framework (Framework) which serves as the State’s roadmap to a more-resilient future. It lays out the State’s resiliency vision and goals, and explores risks and vulnerabilities across four themes: adapting to our changing climate, understanding risks from natural and other hazards, addressing social inequities and unique community needs, and pursuing economic diversity and vibrancy.
Finally, read case studies highlighting how Colorado communities prepared for, responded to, and recovered from natural hazards and other major disruptions.
Prepare & Adapt
Is your community prepared for natural hazards and major disruptions?
Resiliency is the ability of communities to rebound, positively adapt to, or thrive amidst changing conditions or challenges—including human-caused and natural disasters—and to maintain quality of life, healthy growth, durable systems, economic vitality, and conservation of resources for present and future generations.
These resources can help your community plan to adapt and thrive into the future:
+ Community Resilience Planning Toolkit
The Community Readiness and Resilience Toolkit will help your community scale resiliency efforts and be ready for whatever shocks and stressors they are facing now and may face in the future.
+ Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning
By developing and adopting a pre-disaster recovery plan before a disaster occurs, your community can: 1) establish clear lines of communication and responsibility across pertinent recovery stakeholders, 2) consider how you will manage important recovery issues prior to a disaster, and 3) develop recovery capacity and leadership early on.
+ State Agency Resiliency Playbook
State agencies utilize the Resiliency Playbook to incorporate resilience planning into their agency’s operations.
Recover
Is your community recovering from a disaster or disruption?
The post-disaster recovery toolkit will help kick-start your community’s recovery efforts and incorporate resilience into your recovery planning process. The toolkit includes six steps to be taken by local governments after a small or large disaster event.
Engage
For county and municipal leaders and recovery teams
Curious to learn even more?
Check out our list of funding and recovery resources.