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Paper Presentation

Rural Issues

Session: Housing Issues

Rural Service Provider Experiences in Kentucky’s 2022 Flood-Affected Counties: Emerging Themes and Lessons

Saturday, October 26, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2505A
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to better understand organizational response, resiliency, and lessons learned in the wake of the unprecedented flooding in Eastern Kentucky (summer 2022). This disaster disproportionately impacted marginalized people and communities. Organizational resilience and themes around rebuilding and future planning are shared.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Upon completion, participants will be able to articulate the challenges faced by rural organizations in the wake of a natural disaster. Scholars and practitioners interested in rural community development and resiliency will explore themes that emerged from these semi-structured interviews.
  2. Upon completion, the participants will be able to describe the strengths of local community-based organizations as “first responders” in times of natural disaster/crisis and will have heightened awareness of the need for amplifying the voices and experiences of rural community based organizations as key stakeholders in community practice.
  3. Upon completion, the participants will be able to create conversations with students, colleagues & service providers, centering rural, persistent poverty communities/regions, helping to change the narrative around rurality. Rural places and people have been systematically disenfranchised, and we must center the experiences, voices, and value of rural people and places.