Planning Clinic: Day One

Tuesday November 6, 2018

1:15pm - 3:45pm

PRC Overview

Desired Impact for PRC Partner Communities:

• Capacity and Influence

• Resiliency Project (alternative energy and green infrastructure)

• Community education and participation

• Sharing the journey and outcomes

2 mins

Planning Clinic Overview

Over the next two days, you will draft a plan for your resiliency project.

We will have 8 rounds of planning: at the end of each round your team will have brainstormed one element of your plan.

By the end of the planning clinic, you’ll have a rough draft of your project plan.

3 mins

Planning Clinic Goal• Develop a vision for climate resilience in your

community.

• Develop a plan for your next resiliency project with 8 plan elements: – Vision for Community Climate Resilience

– Resilience Project Details

– Strengths and Assets

– Vulnerabilities and Challenges

– Community Engagement and Leadership

– Partners

– Fund and Resource Development

– Communications and Storytelling

Planning Materials

• Markers

• Chart Paper

• Planning Workbook

Roles and Process

For each round, your group will discuss and brainstorm elements of your plan.

Identify Roles:

• Facilitator

• Note-taker

Round 1: Reflections

What are some successes from

your current resiliency project?

What are your lessons learned to

improve your resiliency work?

10

mins

Round 1: Report Out

REPORT OUT (2-min each):

Share 1 lesson learned

12

mins

Round 2: Vision for Resilience • What is your vision for climate

resilience in your community?

• When it comes to resiliency, what do you want to be improved or strengthened?

• What are your priorities for community resiliency?

15

mins

Round 2: Report Out

REPORT OUT (1-2 mins each):

What is your team’s vision for Community Resilience?

12

mins

Round 3: Project Brainstorming • Project Identification: What is your

approach to addressing community resiliency?

• How will your project address community resilience issues/ problems?

• How will your project build the community’s climate resilience?

25

mins

Be sure to think about:

– Creating community education and fostering community participation

– Addressing systemic policies and practices that need to be changed

– Influencing others to support your work

– Sharing your work

Round 3: Report Out

REPORT OUT (1-2 mins each):

What is your project and how will it address community

resiliency?

12

mins

Round 4: Assets and Strengths

What are the strengths and assets in the community that can help support your

resiliency project?

What external strengths and assets could you tap into you to support your resiliency

project?

15

mins

Round 5: Challenges • What are the traumas that have fostered

inequities, challenges or vulnerabilities related to building climate resilience in your community?

• How and how will your project address this?

• What are the other potential barriers that could challenge your project?

• How can you overcome these barriers?

25

mins

Putting it Together

Take the next 10 minutes to ensure your team’s ideas are captured in your workbook.

Tomorrow we will continue developing the last 4 sections of the plan and have an opportunity for

teams to present.

Planning Clinic: Day Two

Wednesday November 7, 2018

10:45am - 1:30pm

Review (5 mins)

Review your workbook

to ensure your resiliency project ideas were captured.

Round 6: Community Engagement and Leadership • How can you meaningfully engage and partner with residents

and community stakeholders to help design and implement community solutions for climate resilience?

• What are some barriers to community participation that you could address to help residents and stakeholders partner with you on your resiliency project?

• How can you build community power to ensure the needs of your community are listened to and met?

20

mins

Round 7: Partners

What organizations, agencies, institutions, funders, groups, individuals, etc, does your organization need to work with to successfully implement your project?

15

mins

Round 8: Funds and Resources

• How much money do you need to effectively implement your resiliency project?

• What other resources do you need to do your project effectively?

• Where and who might you tap into to secure funding and resources to support your resiliency project?

20

mins

Round 9: Communication and Storytelling What is the story you want to tell?

– Why does your project matter?– What need will your work address?– Who will be better off and how?– What will happen if you aren’t successful and to who?– What will happen if you are successful and for who?– What else?

25

mins

Putting it Together

Take 10 minutes to ensure your team’s ideas are captured in your workbook.

10

mins

Preparation and Design

Each team will have 20 minutes to put together a 5 minute presentation on:

– The resiliency issue they are addressing (or will address).

– How their project is addressing (or will address)

that issue.

– One “aha” moment they had as they developed their plans

GET CREATIVE!Use the markers, chart paper, or PowerPoint to support your presentation.

20

mins

Presentation: Our Resiliency Project

Each team has

5 minutes

to provide an overview of their resiliency

project and project goals.

35

mins

Planning Next Steps

What are the next steps in finalizing your project plan?

10

mins

Closing