The United Houma Nation is seeking six (6) enrolled UHN citizens with varied geographic and occupational backgrounds for its new Terrebonne Parish Community Engagement Working Group (the “Group”). The Group is being established to support the UHN by serving as community ambassadors for UHN RISING, the United Houma Nation’s Tribal Resilience Plan. The Group will assist the UHN with obtaining broader community engagement for the UHN’s disaster response, programming, and services in Terrebonne Parish. A modest stipend will be provided. The deadline to apply is Monday, March 3, 2025. Future Working Groups will be established in our other service area parishes according to the timeline established in the UHN RISING project.
Because the UHN provides disaster assistance to anyone in need following a hurricane, these efforts have the potential to positively impact across all six parishes. The UHN serves an important role in broader parish and state emergency preparedness, and its response systems connect underserved residents to programming and resources in both blue skies and in times of disaster.
The 12-member Group will be comprised of the six Tribal citizens, local officials (e.g., Terrebonne Parish Emergency Manager, Building Code Official), and technical partners (e.g., universities, etc.). This group will support both the UHN’s central resilience hub (Main Tribal Office) and the Terrebonne satellite resilience hub, and will meet biweekly for two and a half years.
Roles and Responsibilities of Planning Group Members
- Help plan and coordinate community engagement across the Parish. Key elements will be:
- Develop a visioning exercise with Tribal citizens prior to beginning engineering-level design to further integrate Tribal citizen perspectives into the conceptual and preliminary designs.
- Leverage Tribal Council meetings, surveys, mailing list, and social media for distributing information
- an on-site design charette
- Host a final open house after completion
- Provide direct input from key stakeholders such as emergency managers, local non-profits, and other providers of disaster aid, planning, and service.
- Serve as a voice of the community input when reviewing plans/architectural designs.
- Serve as project ambassadors in the broader community and as additional pathways to communicate with other stakeholders
Activities
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- Bimonthly meetings that will include discussion of an engagement plan, reviewing plans from the engineering and design firm, and providing recommendations to the UHN staff and project team
- Attending key engagement activities
- Reviewing plans, designs, and other aspects during the design and construction.
- Estimated time commitment will be 22 one-hour virtual meetings/year, four in-person two-hour meetings per year, plus five additional hours for work outside of regular meetings.
To apply, please fill out the following application: UHN Terrebonne Parish Working Group Application
You may also download the application here and return the completed form via email to [email protected], or by mail to: United Houma Nation, Attn: Lance Foussell, 400 Monarch Drive, Houma, La 70364. The deadline is Monday, March 3, 2025. For more information, call 985-223-3093.