alliance for Resilience
in healthcare

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Stronger healthcare access, lasting resilience.


A nonprofit organization advancing healthcare access and resilience in disaster-affected communities.

ARHC strengthens healthcare access and long-term resilience in disaster-affected communities through community-led collaboration beyond the initial response phase.

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Our Story

ARHC was created to focus on what happens after the initial response, when communities are still navigating recovery, and access to healthcare is less certain but just as essential.

We saw that while immediate needs are often met quickly, the path forward is longer and more complex. As communities rebuild, healthcare access can shift in ways that are harder to see, but deeply felt. At the same time, this phase holds real potential: a chance to strengthen how care is accessed, connected, and sustained for the future.

That’s where ARHC works. We partner with residents, local organizations, and healthcare providers to better understand needs, strengthen coordination, and support community-led solutions.

We believe recovery isn’t just about restoring what was, it’s an opportunity to build stronger, more resilient access to healthcare for the future.


HELP US GROW

Your support helps communities recover, rebuild, and grow stronger long after the headlines fade.

Every gift makes a difference to:

•Strengthening local health programs
•Supporting long-term recovery and resilience
•Creating sustainable change in vulnerable communitie

Your generosity keeps this work going. Every contribution, big or small, brings us closer to a future where communities can thrive after disaster.

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OUR SERVICES

What We Do:

The Alliance for Resilience in Healthcare is a nonprofit that helps whole communities keep local care alive after a disaster and after years of being overlooked. We step in when the nearest hospital has closed, the town clinic has flooded, or the local healthcare system has become inaccessible. Working with the people who already serve the area, we pull together the money, engineers, and technology needed to reopen a place where residents can see a nurse, talk to a doctor by video, fill a prescription, and shelter in a safe room when the next storm comes. We provide specialized services to help the local team achieve long-term success and growth:

We Help Communities:

  • Build long-term resilience in healthcare access
  • Strengthen coordination across local organizations
  • Elevate community voices and lived experience
  • Identify practical, community-informed solutions
  • Build long-term resilience in healthcare access

How We work:

  • Assess healthcare access and resilience through community-based research
  • Engage residents and partners to center lived experience
  • Map systems to understand coordination and access pathways
  • Convene stakeholders to align efforts and strengthen collaboration
  • Translate findings into actionable, community-informed recommendations
Doctor with a patient

why we exist

When a disaster hits, communities mobilize quickly. Support arrives, urgent needs are met, and critical services are restored. But recovery doesn’t follow a clear timeline and healthcare access is often one of the most complex pieces to navigate over time.

As communities move forward, they are often working across changing resources, evolving partnerships, and systems that weren’t built for long-term recovery. Within that complexity is an opportunity: to better understand what’s working, where connections can be strengthened, and how access to care can be more reliable moving forward.

ARHC was created to support that process. We focus on helping communities make sense of this phase by bringing together local insight, strengthening coordination, and translating lived experience into clear, actionable direction for the future.

LOTUS FLOWER EXPLANATION:

Like a lotus rising from murky water to bloom in the light, ARHC believes that within every disaster is an opportunity for growth. Moments of disruption reveal both challenges and possibilities.

Rather than simply restoring what was, we work alongside communities to strengthen healthcare access, build resilience, and support a more reliable path forward.

OUR PROCESS

Tell us your story

 Tell us your story and help us understand your community’s needs.

Dispatch

Bring together partners and resources using community-informed insights to support coordinated action.

Recovery & Innovation

Support long-term healthcare access and resilience through community-led solutions.

TESTIMONIALS

“I enjoyed working with Amy and Coryn. They assisted in giving me the confidence to do what I already knew was right, they gave me the tools and understanding of how things worked and how to gain control over it myself for the practice. I will be forever grateful for that.”

Angel
Practice Manager
Washington Eye Care

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Board Members bring diverse experience across healthcare, public health, and community-based work. Their collective expertise helps guide the organization’s direction, ensuring our work remains thoughtful, responsive, and grounded in real-world needs.

With the Board’s leadership and support, ARHC strengthens healthcare access and advances long-term resilience in the communities we serve.

Amy Schlight
MBA, SHRM-SCP

Coryn Carson
MS, CCC-SLP

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Help Communities Thrive

Collaborate or volunteer with us! Help rewrite the future of healthcare one community at a time. Whether you donate, partner, or volunteer, you’re helping a community come back stronger than before the disaster.

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