Completed Projects

COPEWELL

Project Description

The Composite of Post-Event Well-Being (COPEWELL) is an evidence-based model and collection of tools that fosters a community-wide understanding and sparks cross-sector dialogue about the complex nature of community resilience as it pertains to disasters. It uses data-driven tools to assess community functioning and predict resilience, and provides resources that communities can utilize to address identified gaps to improve community functioning before, during, and after disasters.

COPEWELL website includes data-driven tools for practitioners to use flexibly in ways that meet the needs of their communities. COPEWELL tools were developed in collaboration with on-the-ground users and stakeholders who implemented COPEWELL in their communities and reported back on valuable modifications:

1. COPEWELL Framework: A whole-of-community framework that helps communities understand resilience and the factors that influence it
2. Computational Model & Data: A county-level model of community functioning and resilience, which uses publicly available data and produces “heat maps” to aid visualization of findings
3. Self-Assessment Tools: A set of tools (“COPEWELL Rubrics”) that communities can use to assess their own functioning and resilience
4. Resources for Change: A set of curated intervention strategies tied to the framework to help communities strengthen their functioning and resilience
5. COPEWELL In Practice: A variety of resources and examples developed by COPEWELL Communities, where components of COPEWELL have been applied to their work to meet specific needs.

The COPEWELL project team is a multi-disciplinary group of researchers and subject matter experts representing a many different fields. More information about COPEWELL Leadership can be found here.

Supported By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Johns Hopkins University

Project website and resources: https://www.copewellmodel.org