Enhancing the Capacity for Environmental and Social Resiliency in Overburdened Communities

As climate-related disasters, such as extreme heat, drought, floods, and wildfires, threaten communities across the United States, frontline communities often experience the first and the worst of the impacts. Front and Centered, a coalition of over 70 community organizations led by people of color across Washington State, state agencies, and the University of Washington will co-develop the Envisioning Resilience Toolkit and assess it with communities of color who have been disproportionately impacted by environmental hazards. We will advance the state of the art in community-driven resilience planning, and empower communities to create more resilient places to live, work, and recreate. We will also develop more effective approaches for two-way engagement between communities of color and state agencies for long-term planning and transformations to be sustained across generations.