Resilience Hub
94 S. Caldwell Street, Brevard, NC · Home of StoryLab and Media Navigators
Autumn at the hub
Conceptual rendering shown for illustrative purposes only. Final design, features, and layout are subject to change based on funding availability and project development.
At 94 S. Caldwell Street, SparkPoint is stewarding a welcoming space where residents, nonprofits, volunteers, and partners can gather, learn, navigate resources, and strengthen resilience together.
SparkPoint uses the space as a connector, convener, and capacity-builder — helping people and partners find one another, share what they know, and strengthen what the community can do together.
A welcoming third space for connection, coordination, and practical support throughout the year.
Workshops, meetings, and initiatives can grow here through shared learning and community feedback.
94 S. Caldwell Street in Brevard, near Hendersonville Pediatrics, MAHEC, and The Sharing House.
The groundwork
After Hurricane Helene, SparkPoint listened across Transylvania County. Those stories revealed unmet needs and connected residents to recovery support. The Resilience Hub gives that work a permanent address.
94 S. Caldwell Street
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Conceptual rendering shown for illustrative purposes only. Final design, features, and layout are subject to change based on funding availability and project development.
What happens here
The Resilience Hub supports the kinds of activities that help people stay informed, connected, and better equipped to care for one another over time.
Practical sessions on resilience, well-being, community health, and everyday preparedness.
Space for nonprofits, agencies, schools, and other community-serving organizations to plan together and share updates.
A more human path into information, referrals, and next steps when people are unsure where to begin.
Low-barrier gatherings that reinforce belonging, connection, and community self-determination.
Room for youth mental health initiatives, leadership development, and connective programming that invests in the next generation.
A practical setting for coordinated preparedness efforts, emotional recovery support, and steady care after difficult seasons.
Inside the hub
Drawn from the architect’s permit plans. Choose a room to see what it’s for.
StoryLab studio 128 sq ft
Recording, interviews, and editing, where community stories are captured with care.
At the Resilience Hub
StoryLab is the place and the listening process. Media Navigators are the people it trains. They share a studio, a set of ethics, and a goal: turn local experience into local capacity.
A community media studio and listening process where lived experience becomes useful learning.
A trained local media generalist who helps organizations communicate clearly and ethically.
Navigators train inside StoryLab, then carry those skills to partners.
: The stories were already here. Now they’re getting a home.StoryLab is SparkPoint’s listening practice: community story collection, one question at a time, grounded in Participatory Narrative Inquiry. It follows a repeatable cycle: listen to lived experience, learn what it reveals, lead with what the community needs, and return what was learned. Its next home is a StoryLab studio planned for the Resilience Hub, for recording stories and oral histories and turning them into captioned video and archives, with Media Navigators helping run it.
About StoryLabNot storytelling for awareness alone. Storytelling that helps people, partners, and funders act with better information.
Conceptual rendering shown for illustrative purposes only. Final design, features, and layout are subject to change based on funding availability and project development.
StoryLab trains paid Media Navigator Fellows: ethical, AI-literate media generalists who learn through real production work, build portfolios, and support nonprofits, agencies, and small businesses that need communications capacity but can’t sustain a specialist.
Paid, hands-on training in video, audio, editing, captioning, and responsible AI tools, with a portfolio and a partner placement at the end of it.
A trained Navigator who can document programs, tell your story, and handle everyday communications, without the cost of a full-time specialist.
A strength-based pathway for local talent, including neurodivergent minds, to grow, contribute, and build careers right here at home.
In a rural county, stories are often where the real information lives. StoryLab helps us listen with dignity, identify patterns, preserve community memory, and turn lived experience into better decisions.
Why it matters here
Technology supports the work. People make the decisions.
Who it serves
The hub is meant to hold many kinds of community-facing work, with each group able to engage in a way that feels useful, practical, and rooted in local relationships.
People looking for connection, practical information, or a trusted place to learn what support may be available.
Come with a question, an idea, or simply a need for clearer next steps.
Organizations that need a place to collaborate, host learning, align referrals, or strengthen countywide coordination.
Use the space to reduce duplication and build stronger handoffs.
Community members who want to help with gatherings, resource-sharing, preparedness efforts, or other practical support.
Step into a role that fits your time, skills, and comfort level.
Schools, clinics, agencies, and community-serving teams seeking a grounded place for coordination and shared learning.
Reach out to co-host, coordinate, or explore what the hub can support together.
Place-based note
The hub is located at 94 S. Caldwell Street, Brevard, NC, near Hendersonville Pediatrics, MAHEC, and The Sharing House. That location matters. It places the building within a familiar part of town where care, support, and community-serving work are already part of the landscape.
Stewardship
SparkPoint is holding the Resilience Hub as a flexible community asset. Uses and room arrangements can adapt over time depending on workshops, partner coordination, youth gatherings, or preparedness-related support. What stays constant is the intention: keep the space welcoming, readable, and useful.
Stay connected
Reach out if you have a question, a partnership idea, or a community use in mind. We can start with a simple conversation and figure out what makes sense from there.
Learn more about SparkPoint's framework, programs, and ways to stay involved.
