Using the Community ReACT Tool Kit is Easy. Click on the links to the right for step by step instructions.
Introduction
The model for public health outreach and civic engagement presented here assumes that you will partner with existing leadership in a vulnerable community to educate about Health and Climate, and to survey 100 households in the community. The goals are to increase climate resilience and to empower an organization in a vulnerable community to speak to public officials about climate resilience concerns., by documenting those concerns with a report of the neighborhood survey. If you are a member of a church or a non-profit organization that has acquired funding to reach out to vulnerable communities to build climate resilience, the materials and methods used in two pilot communities are available to you here. Word document templates on this website, with links included in this document, can be modified to include your local Emergency Service resources, and to reflect the climate challenges you face where you live. If you are a leader in a diverse vulnerable community, you can ignore some of the organizing that is necessary when there are partnerships involved, and focus on using the templates and videos in this Tool Kit to educate and survey your neighbors.
ReACT Tool Kit Outline
Community Partner Liaison Description
Links to Tool Kit Contents Needed in Weeks 1 – 4
Community Outreach Leader Job Description
Climate and Health Outreach Communicator Description
Links to Tool Kit Contents Needed in weeks 5-12
Training Session 1 Description
Optional Training Session 2 Description
Links to Tool Kit Materials Needed in Weeks 13 – 16
This website is maintained by the Unitarian Universalist Justice Florida’s Climate Resilience Ministry. It was established by the Green Sanctuary Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton. The community pilot projects, on which the Community Toolkit was based, were undertaken in partnership with Developing Interracial Social Change (DISC) and Habitat for Humanity in Boca Raton, Florida; and Toussaint L’Ouverture High School for Arts and Social Justice in Delray Beach, Florida. Project Director for that effort was Janice T. Booher, MS. Pilot Project Manager Phase I was Dr. Ana Puszkin-Chevlin. Pilot Project Manager Phase II was Debra Weiss-Randall, Ed. D, CHES.
- This project is funded in part by the Unitarian Universalist Fund for Social Responsibility.
- Funding for this project was provided by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton Endowment Fund.
- Funding for the project in Shorecrest, Miami with the Community Health Mapping Initiative is provided by the National Library of Medicine/NIH.
- Development of the ReACT Tool Kit and the Pilot Projects were funded by EPA Environmental Justice Grant #EQ-00D35415-0 awarded to the Green Sanctuary Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton.
Website designed and maintained by Janice T. Booher