Tribal Climate & Health Adaptation
Regional Cohort Training Series
January-August 2020
Online
National Webinar Training Series
Some of the most tragic impacts of climate change are projected to come in the form of illness, injury, and death, which will disproportionately impact the most vulnerable members of a community. A comprehensive tribal climate change adaptation plan can help a Native American tribal community better understand, prepare for, and protect against such impacts. However, many adaptation plans place greater emphasis on environmental, infrastructural, or other issues and do not adequately analyze human health concerns. This may be because there can be an overwhelming amount of potential human health impacts and limited resources to obtain, understand, or analyze this information.
This FREE interactive training is offered through a series of eight live webinars scheduled on the third Tuesday of the month (10:00 – 11:30am PT) from January 21, 2020 through August 18, 2020.
The training will provide steps, tools, templates, case studies, and other resources that seek to streamline the adaptation planning process and make it easier for tribal health and environmental professionals to understand and address human health exposures and impacts within tribal communities. This training will summarize the latest data and literature on the exposures and impacts of climate change that may impact the health of tribal community members. It will also describe how to identify and select appropriate strategies to address these exposures and impacts.
This training originates from the Tribal Climate Health Project (TCHP), a grant funded project being administered by the Pala Band of Mission Indians and the Pala Environmental Department (PED) to help tribal communities across the country build capacity to address the health impacts of climate change.
The TCHP is developing a comprehensive platform for this purpose which includes an extensive and growing clearinghouse of relevant information, tools, trainings, and resources. Trainings in this webinar series will be recorded and shared via this platform.
