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Implementing the Steps to Resilience: A Practitioner's Guide

About this Course

The following videos are from a 2023 pilot training. Updated course modules that will be available in the Fall of 2025.

Practitioner's Guide

Before you Begin (Foundations)

Instructor
Mark Wilbert & Matt Hutchins
Sections 6
45 minutes

Foundational information to consider before you begin your resilience journey.

Get Started

Instructor
Matt Hutchins (Fernleaf)
Sections 7
14 minutes

Coordinate with the community champions to assemble a planning team and establish goals for the project.

Understand Exposure

Instructor
Jim Fox, Aashka Patel, Kim Rhodes (Fernleaf)
Sections 4
65 minutes

Evaluate community assets and their exposure to climate-related hazards.

Assess Vulnerability & Risk

Instructor
Matt Hutchins (Fernleaf)
Sections 6
35 minutes

Evaluate the vulnerability of community assets by enumerating qualities of sensitivity and adaptive capacity.

Investigate Options

Instructor
Jim Fox (Fernleaf), Karin Rogers (NEMAC)
Sections 6
79 minutes

List options to reduce the greatest climate-related vulnerabilities and risks to vulnerable populations and community assets.

Prioritize & Plan

Instructor
Jim Fox (Fernleaf)
Sections 4
53 minutes

Design an implementation plan for the strategies that are mostly likely to reduce vulnerability and risk.

Take Action

Instructor
Jim Fox and Mark Wilbert (Fernleaf)
Sections 4
4 minutes

Implement and communicate the plan. Identify funding sources. Monitor. Iterate.