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About Us

The Center for Community Resilience Research Innovation and Advocacy (CCRRIA) is an Organized Research Unit under the Program of Public Affairs and Security Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at UTRGV in collaboration with UTRGV’s Department of Sociology and the Texas Epidemic and Public Health Institute (TEPHI). We are a Transboundary convergence platform (TCP) connecting and sharing the university’s resilience related knowledge with our most vulnerable populations in the RGV, and simultaneously learning from their wisdom. The concept of CCRRIA emerged from the creation of the RISE Network at the 2019 RISE Conference, held at the University of Albany, (SUNY). Since then, it has been searching for a better understanding of the role that universities play in the pre and post environmental disasters, and their effects in the communities.

Conference Workshop 2024

Sharing Leadership Towards Community Resilience

Converging UTRGV Emergency Management and the Broader First Responder Community: Sharing Leadership Towards Community Resilience.

Plenary Panel Climate Change, Vulnerable Populations, and the Future of Preparedness

Climate Change

Plenary Panel Climate Change, Vulnerable Populations, and the Future of Preparedness

The COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges it posed to communities around the world demonstrated the necessity of enhancing the resilience of communities to infectious disease outbreaks.

Exploring Challenges to Public Health

The COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges it posed to communities around the world demonstrated the necessity of enhancing the resilience of communities to infectious disease outbreaks.

Inter and transdisciplinary “team science” approaches promote innovation and improve the efficiency of research, collaboration and training.

Pathways to Successful Transdisciplinary Collaborations

Inter and transdisciplinary “team science” approaches promote innovation and improve the efficiency of research, collaboration and training.

Everyone can participate in infectious disease prevention. One way to do this is to follow recommendations from health authorities. Barriers to following recommendations include confusion when guidelines change, risk perception and tolerance, and lack of trust in authority figures.

The Risk Communication Imperatives 

Everyone can participate in infectious disease prevention. One way to do this is to follow recommendations from health authorities. Barriers to following recommendations include confusion when guidelines change, risk perception and tolerance, and lack of trust in authority figures.

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Conference Workshops 2023

Academia’s Perspective

Community Resilience from Academia’s Perspective - The Ethics of Resilience Research: Redistributing Power Under Extreme Conditions

Student And Young Scholars’ Panel: The Future of Resilience

Plenary Student Panel

Student And Young Scholars’ Panel: The Future of Resilience

County Government Visions of Community Resilience Convened by Christian Corrales Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez Edinburg Mayor Ramiro Garza Harlingen Mayor Norma Sepulveda

Discussion among City/County Judges

County Government Visions of Community Resilience Convened by Christian Corrales
Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez
Edinburg Mayor Ramiro Garza
Harlingen Mayor Norma Sepulveda

Community Resilience from the First Responder/Emergency Management Perspective

Community Resilience

Community Resilience from the First Responder/Emergency Management Perspective

Community Resilience from the Advocacy Perspective - Lawyering in extreme conditions

Community Resilience

Community Resilience from the Advocacy Perspective - Lawyering in extreme conditions

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