Pre-established trusted groups, like the Coastal Bend Disaster Recovery Group, is crucial to effectively accomplishing our communities disaster recovery goals while also making our communities more resilient.

Having the structure, organization, and personnel in place pre-disaster;
that can think clearly when under pressure; that can manage people and donations;
that understand our best practices and lessons learned; are vital to ensuring that those within our community that will not recover on their own, not only have the opportunity to recover, but to do so in an organized, vetted, and more efficient manner.