A 70-page plan was recently launched by the Community Recovery Committee, which represents smaller groups in Towong Shire communities.

Chair Dom Sandilands said the plain-language document would go to every householder in the region.

"It's been amazing to see the community come together in such a strong way," he said.

"There hasn't been infighting; these are people who have been directly affected, who have got plenty going on in their own personal lives, and are giving commitment and time to that community level."

The Upper Murray Community Recovery Committee has nominated health and well-being, telecommunications, energy resilience and reliability, adventure tourism and agricultural diversification as its five priorities.

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For Mr Sandilands, a key action is addressing the needs of children.

"The work of the Australian Childhood Foundation is firstly linked with the research side of things and getting the evidence base together," he said.

"The second part has been identifying the different services that exist, and this is really challenging, because across the country, there are workforce shortages in specialised paediatric services.

"There'll be other pieces of work around looking at the overall services and how they interact for the benefit of kids.

"There are actions in council plans to advocate for after-school care care for kids; there's a lack of access and that puts more pressure on families."

Of 222 actions listed in Towong Shire Council's Municipal Recovery Plan, 66 have been completed and 136 are in progress.

Mayor Andrew Whitehead said the launch of an online health and well-being support directory, funding for a Lake Hume Masterplan to maximise its tourism potential and Landcare work at 161 private properties was among outcomes.

"The impact of COVID-19, including the recent local outbreak, is significant and far-reaching and the delivery of recovery services throughout this time has been challenging," he said.

The recovery plan shows slip-on units have been purchased and halls have been upgraded, but larger initiatives such as improving telecommunications remain on the horizon.

The Upper Murray Place Based Power Plan was awarded $2.17 million by Bushfire Recovery Victoria Local Economic Recovery fund and has been the first initiative from the plan to be actioned.

BRV acting chief executive officer Carmel Flynn, who attended the launch of the plan, said such initiatives helped build resilient communities.

For every project that can be physically seen, there are 10 others that are about resilience and preventative measures.

An Upper Murray Thrive group to help the community come together had a soft launch last weekend; it follows the Black Dog Institute Life Span model in order to build a community safety net to prevent suicide.

Mr Sandilands said no research could inform what Upper Murray communities had been through in recent years.

"From a higher level view ... there has been soil turned over and things happening that are visible, but it doesn't take much to scratch the surface and see the impact of the COVID-19 in slowing the recovery down," he said.

"If you just had the bushfires alone, you'd be following that chart (of recovery) that's been pretty well-established in the literature.

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"But it's never really been tested to have these overlays to it as well.

"Some of the work of the group has been great, because there's optimism, but I don't think anyone's under any illusions that there's also exhaustion.

"So we're taking a breather. Even though this is a continuous process, if you don't punctuate it, you just lurch into the next thing."