Community Resilience Leadership

Annual Resilience Leadership Online Series

Are you active in your neighborhood or a community service group? Do you support community food, health, housing, sustainability, preparedness, …?

SiVIC) and its partners are excited to invite you to join a powerful initiative to strengthen interfaith resilience across our faith communities and neighborhoods.

In times of disaster, people turn to fire stations—and places of worship. Faith communities have a crucial role to play in disaster preparedness, mutual aid, and climate change resilience.

Visit SiliconValleyCAN to learn about previous series. Stay tuned for news on the 2026 series.

 Resilience Partners & Allies 

Our Community Resilience Leadership partner program has already sparked valuable new connections with interfaith and resilience-building groups.

SiVIC is lead sponsor designing the program with our amazing partners CADRESV, Climate Resilient Communities, Skyland Community Church, and NAMI Santa Clara.  Over 20 organization allies have presented their resilience work over the years, including Veggielution, Resilient Los Altos, Shareable, CERT, Collaboration Mountain View, and several SiVIC affiliates.  

Join In, Your Way!

Resilience: Sign up for the SiVIC email list HERE to be invited to the upcoming Resilience series. Check out the SiliconValleyCAN website for inspiring resilience allies.

Disaster: Join CADRESV’s Interfaith Support Network.  The network is a county-wide communication platform for faith-based organizations to share information and resources to support spiritual and emotional well-being throughout the disaster cycle and facilitate collaboration with other service providers (food pantries, warming/cooling centers, unhoused support, etc.).

Mental Health: Join NAMI FaithNet. FaithNet supports faith communities to become mental health friendly by equipping them with knowledge about mental health, stigma reduction, and how to support those facing mental health challenges.

Climate: Join the Santa Clara County Climate Collaborative. The Collaborative is a multi-sector network to advance regional solutions to climate change through resource and expertise sharing, joint-funding opportunities, and partnership development.