Practitioner Guide Resources

• 1.1 Planning Team Contacts - Worksheet
• 1.2 Plans, Initiatives, and Context Inventory - Worksheet
• 1.3 Vision, Values, and Goals - Worksheet
• 1.4 Project Timeline - Worksheet
• 1.5 Kickoff Meeting Agenda - Worksheet
• 1.6 Kickoff Meeting Slides - Template
• Comparable Risk Frameworks to the Steps to Resilience
• Community Disaster Resilience Zones and National Risk Indices Resource
• Facilitation Basics for Coastal Managers (Instructor-led Course)

• 2.1 Systems Thinking and Conceptual Models - Guidance
• 2.2 Build a Conceptual Model - Worksheet
• 2.3 Community Asset Themes - Worksheet
• 2.4 Identifying Hazards, Climate Stressors, Social Vulnerability, and Non-Climate Stressors - Guidance
• 2.5 Evaluate Hazards and Stressors - Worksheet
• 2.6 Potential Impacts Matrix - Worksheet
• 2.7 Sources for Spatial Data - Guidance
• 2.8 Spatial Data Collection - Worksheet
• 2.9 Tips for Collecting Spatial Data - Guidance
• 2.10 Community Asset Types and Spatial Data - Worksheet
• 2.11 Social Vulnerability Indicators and Spatial Data - Worksheet
• 2.12 Annotated Agenda for Meeting to Review Exposure- Template
• 2.13 Meeting to Review Exposure Slides - Template
• CSCI Risk and Risk Management Narrative

• 3.1 Determine Assessment Type - Worksheet
• 3.2 Guiding Questions for Narrative Assessments - Worksheet
• 3.3 Ruleset Library - Guidance
• 3.4 Ruleset Development - Worksheet
• 3.5 From Rulesets to Maps - Worksheet 
• 3.6 Quality Control Checklist - Guidance
• 3.7 Preliminary Results Meeting Agenda - Template
• 3.8 Preliminary Results Meeting Slides - Template
• 3.9 Preliminary Results Feedback - Worksheet
• 3.10 Develop Impact Statements - Worksheet
• 3.11 Vulnerability and Risk Synthesis Report - Template
• 3.12 Impact Statements Workshop Agenda - Template
• 3.13 Impact Statements Workshop Slides - Template

• 4.1 Facilitation Recommendations - Guidance
• 4.2 Develop Resilience Objectives - Worksheet
• 4.3 Inventory Options from Existing Plans - Worksheet
• 4.4 Integrating National Options into Community Inventory
• 4.5 Inventory of Community Options - Worksheet
• 4.6 Action Types and Subactions - Guidance

• 5.1 Criteria for Evaluating Options - Worksheet
• 5.2 Community Options Prioritization Table - Worksheet (download .xlsx)
• 5.3 STAPLEE Descriptions and Guiding Questions - Guidance
• 5.4 STAPLEE Score Sheet - Worksheet
• 5.5 Considerations for Benefit-Cost Analysis - Guidance
• 5.6 Comparing Financing Tools - Guidance
• 5.7 Barriers to Resilience Funding and Finance - Guidance
• 5.8 Resilience Plan Outline and Guiding Questions
• Grant Proposal Development Resources (PDFs)

• 6.1 Communications Plan - Guidance
• 6.2 Measuring Success - Guidance
• Preparing for Effective Risk Communication (Asynchronous Online Course)
• Moving from Faith-based to Tested Adaptation Process and Approach: How Will We Know We’re Adapting? (PDF)
• Resilience Metrics: Exploring and Identifying Indicators
• Long-Term Community Resilience Exercise Resource Guide

Data Tools

• Climate Mapping For Resilience and Adaptation
• U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit Options Database
• Tribal Resilience Actions Database
• Local Greenhouse Gas Inventory Tool
• National Risk Index
• Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper
• Wildfire Risk to Communities
• Heat.gov
• Climate Explorer
• CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index
• Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency

Training

• Funding and Financing Coastal Resilience Webinars
• Economic Approaches for Decision-Making
• Facilitation Basics
• Preparing for Effective Risk Communication
• Climate 101: Science, Impacts, and Society

Guides

• Spectrum of Community Engagement Engagement
• Funding and Financing: Options and Considerations for Coastal Resilience Projects
• Ready-to-Fund Resilience - Adaptation Professionals
• Methodology Guide: Benefit-Cost Analysis
• FEMA Benefit-Cost Analysis
• Decision-Making Under Deep Uncertainty
• State Climate Summaries
• Facilitation Techniques
• Introduction to Stakeholder Participation
• Meeting Engagement Tools
• Incorporating Nature-based Solutions in Community Climate Adaptation Planning
• Moving from Faith-based to Tested Adaptation Process and Approach: How Will We Know We’re Adapting?

• Babcock Ranch - A Solar Town Proves Resilient During Hurricane Ian
• Delaware iADAPT Tool Adaptation Strategies for Home Owners
• Nautilus (Mock Community) Case Study
• Charleston, South Carolina Case Study
• Louisville, Kentucky Case Study

• Cohort Support Questions: Christina Mills, christina@geosinstitute.org
• CSCI Grant Questions: Elizabeth (Liz) Tully liz@climateresiliencefund.org
• Options Database Questions: Karin Rogers krogers@unca.edu
• Workshop/ Training Questions: Kenneth Rainer kenneth.rainer@noaa.gov