Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Enhancement Program (CARE)
CARE: Centering Community-led Adaptation and Mitigation Solutions
“Climate change starts in our hoods. Climate change ends in our hoods.”
CBE staff and members put together CARE resilience kits during the Los Angeles fires in January 2025.
Climate change is a reality that can no longer be ignored. In response, CBE is organizing to shift California’s energy infrastructure to be more sustainable. We’re also addressing the immediate impacts of global warming through our CARE program.
CARE builds on CBE’s long history of community organizing, participatory research, and environmental justice strategies to reduce and prevent pollution in East Oakland, Richmond, Southeast LA, and Wilmington, California.
This comprehensive program uses a collaborative approach by working with our members, decision-makers, businesses, academic partners, and other organizations to identify adaptation and mitigation solutions, driven by the community. We’re also working to ensure vulnerable communities are prioritized during adaptation planning and in the allocation of resources.
CARE enables the most vulnerable residents to best prepare and cope with climate impacts, before, during, and after climate events.
Engaging community members in the problem-solving and decision-making process is a central component of CARE.
We work on low hanging projects that create tangible benefits for our communities, such as providing residents with: cool shelters and homes, permeable street surfaces, cool/green roofs, access to affordable healthy food and water, and access to clean renewable locally generated sources of energy.
Our East Oakland CARE brigade is working to build a healthier, safer, more resilient community for everyone by preparing for climate challenges like extreme heat, flooding and poor air quality. From creating and distributing resource kits, to planning workshops, our CARE Brigade team members take meaningful action to build a more sustainable and resilient East Oakland.
These proactive measures prepare, educate, and build community resilience to climate change, lower future costs of dealing with disasters, avoid disproportionate injury to disadvantaged communities, inform regional and state adaptation strategies, and provide a model for other communities.
- Local Climate and Vulnerabilities Assessment
- Community Education and Leadership Development
- Creating an Implementation Plan
- Ensure Community Equity in Adaptation Planning
- Communications and Dissemination of Information
Toolkit: Roadmap to Resilience
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Wilmington: Roadmap to Resilience
The Roadmap to Resilience is a tool for frontline residents to use to achieve environmental justice in adaptation planning. In collaboration with Wilmington residents, CBE has created the Roadmap to Resilience to highlight issue areas that need to be addressed in Wilmington and initial steps.
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Wilmington: Mapa de Ruta de la Resiliencia
La Mapa de Ruta de la Resiliencia es una herramienta que se puede usar para lograr justicia ambiental en la planificación de la adaptación. En colaboración con los residentes de Wilmington, CBE ha creado la Mapa de Ruta de la Resiliencia para destacar las áreas problemáticas en Wilmington y los pasos iniciales.
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Richmond: Roadmap to Resilience
The Roadmap to Resilience is a tool for frontline residents to use to achieve environmental justice in adaptation planning. In collaboration with Richmond residents, CBE has created the Roadmap to Resilience to highlight issue areas that need to be addressed in Richmond and initial steps.
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Spanish
Richmond: Mapa de Ruta de la Resilliencia
La Mapa de Ruta de la Resiliencia es una herramienta que se puede usar para lograr justicia ambiental en la planificación de la adaptación. En colaboración con los residentes de Richmond, CBE ha creado la Mapa de Ruta de la Resiliencia para destacar las áreas problemáticas en Richmond y los pasos iniciales.