C-CHARM is grounded in and informed by community engagement, ensuring that our goals are conceptualized and activities are organized based on community needs and priorities.
Community Co-Production Team (CCPT) meetings are held quarterly throughout the project to understand our community’s needs and priorities. These meetings facilitate discussion among community leaders from different sectors and specialties to identify the most prominent concerns our communities are facing. These discussions are themed around areas of local susceptibility regarding geohazards and energy vulnerabilities, while also identifying who, where, and what relationships, strengths, and opportunities already exist. The feedback of the CCPT is used to develop the scientific approach to build more enduring physical, technical, and social assets to support community resilience in the face of a changing climate. This process is repeated iteratively throughout the project to cater to the materials being developed by the project team specifically to the needs of the community.