About the Resilience Toolkit
The Maryland Office of Resilience within the Maryland Department of Emergency Management created the Resilience Toolkit, a one-stop shop where anyone can easily access resilience information and resources. This database contains information about resilience grant opportunities, planning initiatives, mapping tools, technical assistance, and more.
If you are looking for information about resilience resources in Maryland, you have come to the right place.
Definition of Resilience
The Maryland Office of Resilience defines resilience as the ability of communities to adapt to the challenges of changing conditions and disasters — including human-caused and natural hazards — and to build, advance, and maintain capacities related to quality of life, health and well-being, durable systems, economic vitality, human-made and nature-based infrastructure, and sustainable environmental systems
How to Use the Toolkit
In the Home tab, use the filtering functions to narrow down your search results. If you have comments, questions, or concerns and would like to provide feedback, please do so using the Contact tab.
Background on the Maryland Office of Resilience:
The Maryland Office of Resilience was created by law in 2022 and officially established in November 2023.
The office provides strategic guidance and technical assistance to equitably strengthen Maryland’s capacity to anticipate and adapt to evolving risks. The office was created to do the following:
- Develop a statewide resilience strategy
- Conduct outreach and provide technical assistance to local jurisdictions to support the development of local resilience plans
- Prioritize vulnerable communities and ensure that investments are made with a focus on environmental justice
- Identify flood risk assessment and other resilience-related risk assessment tools
- Coordinate and administer federal prevention, protection, mitigation, and recovery–focused programs
- Administer State mitigation grants and loans