Community Assistance Recovery Support Function
After a disaster, communities must lead complex efforts to recover. The Community Assistance RSF supports tribes and localities by building relationships, providing training, and supporting efforts to plan, prioritize, and implement their recovery goals and objectives.
Economic Recovery Support Function
After a disaster strikes, communities are often faced with a complex and difficult recovery process. The Economic RSF supports states, localities, tribes, and territories’ (SLTT) return to a state of economic health and development of new economic opportunities that result in an economically resilient community.
Health, Education, and Human Services
The Health, Education, and Human Services RSF restores and improves health and social services networks to promote the resilience, health, independence, and well-being of the whole community pre- and post-disaster. The HEHS RSF implements the federal framework to support locally led recovery efforts focused on health care systems, human services, behavioral health, public health/environmental health, and education.
Housing Recovery Support Function
The Housing RSF works toward addressing disaster housing issues, focusing on solutions that are feasible, enduring, and resilient. As states and communities look to the federal government for assistance in housing both disaster survivors and others who choose to live in recovering communities, the Housing RSF coordinates and effectively integrates available housing-related resources, addresses conflicting policy/program issues, and identifies gaps in service and assistance delivery.
Infrastructure Systems Recovery Support Function
The Infrastructure Systems RSF serves as a collaborative forum for federal government engagement with states, local governments, tribes, and territories (SLTT) as well as private sector representatives to focus on public engineering services that can reduce risks from disasters and expedite recovery.
Natural & Cultural Resources Recovery Support Function
The Natural & Cultural Resources RSF coordinates departments and agencies working together to provide information and assistance to communities seeking to preserve, protect, conserve, rehabilitate, recover and restore natural and cultural resources during recovery.
For more information: https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparedness/frameworks/recovery/recovery-support-functions