TC&HA Webinar VI

Tribal Climate & Health Adaptation
Tribal Health and Adaptation Peer-Learning Roundtable Webinars
Monthly Advanced Training
November 2022 – October 2023
Online

Tribal Climate & Health Adaptation

For the last 6 years, the Tribal Climate Health Project has been developing training to help Tribes begin to prepare, cope, build resilience to, and recover from the health and other impacts of climate change. With so much at risk, much more support is needed, especially for those Tribes that lack sufficient resources to conduct this work. At the same time, we recognize that some Tribes across the US are on their way, having identified their key climate vulnerabilities and begun implementing planned adaptation and resilience strategies. They are often forging ahead where there is no textbook and would benefit from special support, ideas, and lesson sharing with peers as they continue to blaze the trail.

Audience

This advanced training from the Tribal Climate Health Project is for Tribal-serving practitioners, including environmental and health professionals, who have gained some level of transferable, real-world climate and health knowledge and experience through their work with Tribes. This training is open to Tribes and Tribal-serving professionals throughout the United States who work within the intersections of climate change, health, and community well-being.

Details

This webinar series consists of 12 monthly 2-hour webinars that will further advance the knowledge, skills, and networks of Tribes that have already begun to adapt to climate change. The training will include step-by-step instruction (including emerging scientific findings), tools, and templates on advanced health adaptation topics but will largely feature interactive discussions among participants and guest speakers. Participants will be invited to contribute to live conversations as well as to “wisdom wells,” designed in online sharing platforms (such as Mural) to share peer knowledge easily, advice, lessons learned, tips, templates, and resources on specific training topics. The wisdom wells will be made accessible to tribal practitioners nationally at all stages in the adaptation planning process to help them avoid pitfalls and apply lessons learned to prepare more actionable health adaptation plans from the start.

Schedule

The schedule is subject to change. Monthly on the 3rd Thursday of the month from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm PT / 1:00-3:00 pm ET

2022

November 17, 2022 – Webinar 1: Training and trainee introductions

December 15, 2022 – Webinar 2: Approaches to scoping climate/health adaptation based on Tribe’s unique needs

2023

January 19, 2023 – Webinar 3: Lessons on conducting tribal vulnerability assessments that incorporate TEK, community input, and Western and Indigenous science