Bringing the Parish Back to Life

Welcome to Committee for Plaquemines Recovery (CPR), the Plaquemines Parish Long Term Recovery Organization.

Local community leaders, faith-based organizations and non-profit agencies came together to form the Committee for Plaquemines Recovery (CPR) in November 2005. This is a diverse group of members, which reflects the demographics of the parish. Member agencies invest muscle, materials and/or money to the community’s unmet needs. CPR mobilizes the collective resources of all their member agencies, non-profits, and faith-based organizations in order to address the unmet needs of those vulnerable. The residents assisted through CPR have needs that cannot be met through traditional means (FEMA assistance, Small Business Administration loans, Homeowner’s and Flood Insurance, etc.).

CPR has adopted a model of disaster recovery that focuses on the social and economic impacts of disasters on vulnerable groups. Vulnerability increases the exposure of some individuals limiting their ability to recover from a disaster. This view of disaster recovery sees vulnerable individuals as highly exposed to disaster, not in possession of adequate protection measures, and having limited capacities to absorb and rebound from loss. Poverty, race and class, geography, environment, and poor governance systems have also increased the vulnerability of certain individuals and communities within our society to disaster.

Our Mission:
The Committee for Plaquemines Recovery facilitates long term recovery efforts in Plaquemines Parish by coordinating unmet needs assistance for individuals.