摘要：As community residents and recovery workers, Latino immigrants play important roles after disasters, yet are rarely included in preparedness planning. A community–university–labor union partnership created a demonstration project after Hurricane Sandy to strengthen connections to disaster preparedness systems to increase community resilience among Latino immigrant communities in New York and New Jersey. Building ongoing ties that connect workers and community-based organizations with local disaster preparedness systems provided mutual benefits to disaster planners and local immigrant communities, and also had an impact on national disaster-related initiatives. In dual roles as community residents and recovery workers, Latino immigrants have played important roles after disasters. 1 Following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Latino immigrant construction and cleanup laborers received federally funded short-term occupational safety and health (OSH) training through several community-based organizations (CBOs) to reduce health risks to themselves and the impacted communities.
