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Southeast & Gulf Coast Training, August, 2020

NAACP and Climate Central co-hosted a 9-hour Just and Equitable Sea Level Rise and Flood Management Response Training along with the technical partners of Sea Grant and The Association of State Floodplain Management (ASFPM) on August 21-22, 2020. Access workshop listings here.

The training is a key requirement of NAACP's Just and Equitable Sea Level Rise and Flood Management Response Certification Program.

FACILITATORS
➢ Jacqueline Patterson, Environmental and Climate Justice Program, NAACP
➢ Dan Rizza, Program on Sea Level Rise, Climate Central  
➢ Sea Grant
➢ ASFPM: The Association of State Floodplain Management

PROGRAM - DAY 1

Kathy Egland, Chairman of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Board Committee, NAACP | Introduction

Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP | Certification Program and Training Overview 

Don Bain and Kelly Van Baalen, Climate Central | Overview of Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Risk

Kristen Brown, NAACP | Youth Activism on Sea Level Rise

Don Bain, Climate Central | Assessing Risk of Coastal Flooding

Dan Rizza, Climate Central | Identifying What Is At Risk

Chad Berginnis, Executive Director, ASFPM | Urban Flooding Risk and Management

Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP | Conducting a Community Vulnerability Assessment

 

PROGRAM - DAY 2

Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP | Introduction

Renee Collini, Sea Grant | Overview of Regional Climate Stressors

Sea Grant and ASFPM Facilitators | State and Local SLR Breakout Discussions, Inland Flood Management for all Inland Units

Breakout Discussions - Report Back

Video: Sea Level Rise: Living with Water - Discussion

Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP | Just and Equitable Sea Level Rise Response—Policy Platform

NAACP Participants, Developing Local Just and Equitable Sea Level Rise Response Plans - Facilitated Action Planning

 

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