Growing Resilience, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
SPROUT UP trains rural Hawaiʻi Island communities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disaster: together.
Program overview
SPROUT UP builds a network of community resilience hubs, often based at churches and community sites, across rural Hawaiʻi Island. Each hub becomes a trained, equipped gathering point where neighbors can access emergency skills, communication tools, and mutual aid before help from outside the region arrives.
SPROUT UP stands for:
- Strategize
- Plan
- Rehearse
- Organize
- Utilize Community Resources
- Training and Exercise with Unified Partnerships
Regions served
- Kaʻū
- Puna
- Hāmākua / North Hilo
- North Kohala / Waimea
What hub volunteers learn
- Emergency Medical Response (EMR)
- CPR
- Amateur (HAM) radio communication
- Psychological first aid
- CPI crisis intervention
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Related: DIRE Registry
Sprout Up hub sites are also natural sign-up points for the DIRE Registry.