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Climate Readiness Trainings and Liaison Resource Hub
The Community Liaison Role is a helpful engagement strategy that builds off existing relationships and community connections. A community liaison is ideally someone who already has strong community ties, especially to groups of interest.
A climate community liaison is someone who has connections with climate vulnerable populations, such as environmental justice communities and other priority populations. The liaison does not need extensive climate background as organizations can provide technical background, but the experience of building connections is something unique to people embedded within their communities.
How to Use this Resource Hub
This hub is intended to act as a resource for people interested in developing climate community liaison roles.
It provides a brief overview of the utility of climate community liaison roles and access to resources regarding developing and managing the climate community liaison position for various types of municipal-led projects or planning processes. The materials included, are meant to be adaptable both to fit your community context and as best practices continue to evolve.
Toolkit Contents
Liaison Led Engagement Materials
Questions?
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Assistant Director of Public Health
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Role Descriptions
An overview of what a climate community liaison is and who is a good fit for this role.
When recruiting people well suited for the role of community liaison, clearly defining the characteristics of an ideal candidate will help clarify who is eligible.
This includes key information such as:
- Qualifications necessary to be a community liaison,
- Compensation opportunities, and
- Contact information and expectations of the role.
Additional considerations based on community demographics might include:
Providing materials in other languages commonly spoken in your community, or clearly explaining what level of community involvement is required to be a liaison (such as having a child in the school district or working/volunteering in the area).
Program Management Materials
An overview of key information to include in the marketing and application materials for the community liaison role.
The types of materials that are helpful for your project may vary depending on the desired outcomes of the project. To the right, are materials used with various community liaison program managers.
These documents may be helpful for planning the administrative and program management side of the project.
Community Liaison Training
A brief overview of foundational information that can be useful when onboarding community liaisons.
For those interested in getting ready for the impacts of climate change, we have included Cambridge Community Corps (C3) climate readiness training materials in this section. These materials can serve as a guide for community liaison projects focused on issues other than climate readiness.
The Climate Readiness Curriculum includes facilitation agendas, PowerPoints, activities, and evaluation forms related to the following topics:
- Climate justice
- Emergency heat roundtable
- Flooding
- Heat health
- Vector borne diseases
- Wildfires
Training Materials
Liaison Led Engagement Materials
A brief overview of the types of activities that community liaisons might do.
Community liaison engagement materials will vary based on the type of work you are asking your liaison to do.
To the right are some examples of what the process and the work of the community liaison led to.