The EPA Environmental Education Grant would have supported the localization of this Water Wise & Hurricane Strong curiculum to South Florida, and a much more robust program than we can currently support. However, it might be useful to take a look at the programming that was proposed for the Water Wise & Hurricane Strong Summer Camp that I put together. We did a bottoms up budget, so we had to determine classroom supplies and field trip expenses. The curriculum outline on which it was based can be found here.
(Note that this curriculum was not to support volunteers in the community delivering supplies to the public. It was designed to support resilience projects that met a list of environmental and educational standards specific to the EPA RFP).
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Building on Past Efforts
I think we definitely want to build on the work that the Community Forum did with All Faith's Climate Action Team in their Rising Together program and the one UUCGN did in Newtown. They already created the Ft. Myers & Naples materials in 3 languages that show important emergency information. The training covers many questions common to all people dealing with climate change impats in Florida.
Dunbar
Climate and Health Fact Sheet (English)
Climate and Health Fact Sheet (Creole)
Climate and Health Fact Sheet (Spanish)
Naples
Climate and Health Outreach Fact Sheet English
Climate and Health Outreach Fact Sheet Creole
Climate and Health Outreach Fact Sheet Spanish
There is a training Powerpoint that Barbara Glasgow (UUCGN) presented in Newtown when she conducted a training there & one for Dunbar. I'll post that later. It has a slide on red tides.
We have the advantage that Community Forum, All Faiths, UUCGN and Pastor Paul's Haitian Church in Newtown all have experience with them. They are more comprehensive than standard hurricane preparedness materials, and are a great complement to EMS training. Community Forum signed up 51 households on the Code Red alert system during their project, and that is one of the things we discussed teaching the Youth Corps how to do.
Jan
Janice T. Booher