Community-Informed Resilience Solutions

Engage high-risk communities to increase hazard awareness, build knowledge of adaptive solutions, and learn what strategies are right for specific locations.

Deliverable

Educational materials, engagement protocols (workshops, surveys, etc.), and analysis report, including recommendations for place-based interventions.

Process

Targeted community engagement using surveys, workshops, or focus groups, protocol development, materials creation, and administration support.

Impacts

Planning guidance

Action directions

Community engagement

Report Sample

Project Example

Longmont, Colorado

CAPA worked with the City of Longmont Sustainability Program to develop a comprehensive community engagement strategy for high-priority, heat-vulnerable neighborhoods. The team created a heat experiences survey, a workshop protocol, and accessible informational materials to frame community conversations about heat. Local partners deployed these materials in three target neighborhoods, provided heat education, engaged residents in participatory mapping, and identified clear action directions. Through this process, residents ranked their preferences for a variety of interventions such as trees, cool pavement, and cooling shelters and indicated specific locations for implementation within each neighborhood.