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Goal A Engage with and build capacity in climate vulnerable communities

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Strengthen Protections for Climate Vulnerable Communities

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  • Action 1 Promote programs and partnerships to expand the capacity of under-resourced communities, including California Native American tribes, to access state resources and to lead and implement climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience plans, programs, and projects.

    Success Metric: Number of grant applications submitted by and awarded to under-resourced communities, including rural, underserved, and tribal communities.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, Formerly the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research – Planning and Policy, Strategic Growth Council | Natural Resources Agency – State Coastal Conservancy

    For More Details: Community Assistance for Climate Equity Program; State Coastal Conservancy Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Guidelines; Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program; Coastal Conservancy Strategic Plan

    Success Metric: Increased participation and leadership in climate adaptation decision-making processes and projects by climate vulnerable communities and community organizations.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, Formerly the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research – Planning and Policy, Strategic Growth Council | Environmental Protection Agency | Natural Resources Agency – San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Coastal Commission | Public Utilities Commission

    For More Details: Community Assistance for Climate Equity Program; Environmental Justice Small Grants Program; San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Adapt; Coastal Commission Environmental Justice Policy; Coastal Commission Tribal Consultation Policy; Climate Adaptation Proceeding

    Success Metric: Provide funding via Environmental Justice Action Grants to support California Native American tribes, community-based organizations, and communities to engage in emergency preparedness, public health protection, environmental and climate decision-making, and coordinated enforcement efforts affecting their communities.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency

    For More Details: Environmental Justice Action Grants Program

    Success Metric: Increased engagement and input of Delta communities likely to be most affected by climate change, including through sharing vulnerability assessment findings and the implementation of a regional climate adaptation plan.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Delta Stewardship Council, State Lands Commission

    For More Details: Delta Adapts: Creating a Climate Resilient Future

    Success Metric: Incorporate tribal priority and/or set-asides into all programs and complete grant writing and grant administration trainings for representatives of twelve tribes and tribal organizations under Sierra Nevada Conservancy’s Tribal Capacity Building Program.

    Timeframe: Incorporating priority/set-asides: Ongoing; Training: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Sierra Nevada Conservancy

    For More Details: Sierra Nevada Conservancy Tribal Relations

  • Action 2 Support California Native American tribes’ development of climate change and health equity resilience planning tools and capacity.

    Success Metric: Number of tribal health or environmental programs accessing technical assistance.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Health and Human Services Agency - Department of Public Health

    For More Details: Climate Change and Health Equity

    Success Metric: Number of plans, tools, and resources developed by California Native American tribes or tribal programs receiving technical assistance.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Health and Human Services Agency - Department of Public Health | Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, Formerly the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research – Planning and Policy, Strategic Growth Council

    For More Details: Department of Public Health Climate Change and Health Equity; Community Assistance for Climate Equity Program

    Success Metric: Develop and implement early, often, and meaningful consultation strategies with California Native American tribes involving shared decision-making and a focus towards long-term management agreements that build climate resilience.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: All relevant state agencies

    For More Details: Natural Resources Agency Tribal Consultation Strategy; Compliance Timeline and Consultation Process Flowchart

    Success Metric: Conduct annual evaluations and publish reports on the outcomes of training workshops for and partnerships with California Native American tribes by the end of each year.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: All relevant state agencies

    For More Details: Department of Public Health Climate Change and Health Equity

    Success Metric: Incorporate tribal cultural practices into planning initiatives and program design.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: All relevant state agencies

    For More Details: Department of Public Health Climate Change and Health Equity; Community Assistance for Climate Equity Program

    Success Metric: Incorporate Traditional Ecological Knowledges and tribal expertise into land and resource management practices and decisions to build climate resilience.

    Timeframe: 2026

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – all relevant departments

    For More Details: State Lands Commission Environmental Justice Policy; State Lands Commission 2021-2025 Strategic Plan; Executive Order N-82-20; California Water Plan Update 2023, Chapter 7: Strengths and Resources of California Tribes

  • Action 3 Increase community participation and incorporate public input in planning transportation projects to build climate resilience and to establish landscape linkages and habitat connectivity.

    Success Metric: Cultivate partnerships with and build capacity of community-based organizations and residents who engage in state transportation programs and project development.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: State Transportation Agency – Caltrans

    For More Details: Caltrans Strategic Management Plan 2020-2024

    Success Metric: Update the California Transportation Plan’s Public Participation Plan, modal plans, Public Engagement Plans, and Regional Transportation Plan Guidelines to ensure outreach strategies include equitable practices.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: State Transportation Agency – Caltrans

    For More Details: Caltrans Strategic Management Plan 2020-2024

    Success Metric: Transportation facilities are planned and designed to support vibrant livable places, with a focus on addressing the needs and concerns of underserved communities.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: State Transportation Agency – High-Speed Rail Authority, Caltrans

    For More Details: High-Speed Rail Authority Sustainability Report: Chapter 6; Caltrans Strategic Plan

  • Action 4 Partner with underserved communities, including tribal communities in California, to build coastal and ocean climate resilience.

    Success Metric: Create accessible multilingual sea level rise interpretive and educational materials

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Coastal Commission, State Lands Commission, State Coastal Conservancy

    For More Details: Coastal Commission Environmental Justice Policy; State Lands Commission Environmental Justice Policy; State Lands Commission 2021-2025 Strategic Plan

    Success Metric: Develop and update tribal consultation policies to engage in early, often, and meaningful consultations with California Native American tribes regarding coastal and ocean climate policies that may affect tribal communities.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: All relevant state agencies

    For More Details: Executive Order N-15-19

    Success Metric: Support opportunities through existing and new grant and other funding programs to advance tribal cultural and climate priorities for California’s coast and ocean.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/Agencies: All relevant state agencies

    For More Details: Strategic Plan to Protect California’s Coast and Ocean 2020–2025

    Success Metric: Update the State Lands Commission's climate change and sea level rise webpage to link to relevant multilingual sea level rise interpretive and educational materials.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – State Lands Commission

    For More Details: State Lands Commission Climate Change & Sea Level Rise

  • Action 5 Support Technical Assistance, through providers such as the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, to make climate smart agricultural knowledge and incentives available to Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers and disadvantaged communities.

    Success Metrics: At least 25 percent of technical assistance consultations through the Climate Smart Agriculture Technical Assistance grant program are with Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers.

    Timeframe: 2027

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Climate Smart Agriculture Technical Assistance

    Success Metrics: Number of non-English language outreach materials prepared by technical assistance providers.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Climate Smart Agriculture Technical Assistance

    Success Metrics: Number of applications submitted by socially disadvantaged farmers.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Department of Food and Agriculture

    For More Details: Climate Smart Agriculture Technical Assistance

  • Action 6 Enhance adaptive capacity of communities and individuals through increased climate-related service and volunteerism.

    Success Metric: In frontline climate vulnerable communities: Number of service hours provided by California Climate Action Corps fellows; number of California Native American tribes, Community Based Organizations and local government partners supported; number of volunteers engaged; number of people provided with climate-related educational information; number of trees planted, maintained, or given away; number of structures protected from wildfire, pounds of organic waste diverted, and edible food recovered and redistributed.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement – California Volunteers

    For More Details: California Climate Action Corps

  • Action 7Engage and foster community collaborations to conduct health studies of air pollution, wildfire smoke, and heat, with a concerted effort to minimize health disparities in marginalized communities.

    Success Metric: Conduct health studies to understand the risk of air pollution, wildfire, and heat on health in vulnerable communities. Develop an interactive web-based map displaying health impacts of extreme heat at the neighborhood scale, to promote public access to research findings, and provide public training on using the map.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Agency/Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

    For More Details:For More Details: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Strategic Plan: 2018 Update; Human Health Impacts of Climate Change

  • Action 8 Engage with communities most likely to be affected by state climate adaptation planning decisions.

    Success Metric: Incorporate disaster recovery, climate resilience, and hazard mitigation considerations into statewide fair housing guidance.

    Timeframe: 2026

    Agency/ Agencies: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency – Department of Housing and Community Development

    For More Details: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Guidance Memo

    Success Metric: Engage with and develop tools to support groundwater sustainability agencies and the diverse communities they serve to implement the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, including translation services, facilitation services, and information dissemination.

    Timeframe: Ongoing

    Agency/ Agencies: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources | Department of Food and Agriculture | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board

    For More Details: Statewide Groundwater Management – Assistance and Engagement; Department of Food and Agriculture Office of Environment Farming and Innovation; Save our Water; Sustainable Groundwater Management Plans and Agency Information; Communications and Engagement - translation services; Drinking Water Well Resources; Drought Resources; Underrepresented Communities Technical Assistance Program; Water Quality; California Groundwater Conditions (Cal Groundwater Live); State Water Board Water Board Sustainable Groundwater Management Act; Department of Food and Agriculture Water Efficiency Technical Assistance Program

  • Action 9 Support public and employer awareness campaigns that build upon current efforts to bolster extreme heat event preparedness, drought preparedness, water conservation, and other actions to support climate adaptation.

    Success Metric: Number of climate-related awareness and education campaigns launched annually.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Governor's Office of Service and Community Engagement – Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications | Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, Formerly the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research – Planning and Policy | Governor’s Office of Emergency Services | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Labor and Workforce Development Agency – Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health |Natural Resources Agency | Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health | Department of Food and Agriculture | Department of Education

    For More Details: Heat Ready CA; Save Our Water; 99 Calor

    Success Metric: Number of community-based organizations funded. Analyze and disaggregate the number of community-based organizations funded by outreach tactic, population, geographic area, and other factors.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, Formerly the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research – Planning and Policy, Strategic Growth Council | Labor and Workforce Development Agency – Department of Industrial Relations

    For More Details: 99 Calor

    Success Metric: Number of impressions, website visits, conversion rate, and press engagements related to priority statewide campaigns on water conservation and extreme heat.

    Timeframe: Annual

    Agency/Agencies: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, Formerly the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research – Planning and Policy |Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement - Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board| Governor’s Office of Emergency Services | Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health | Labor and Workforce Development Agency – Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health

    For More Details: Save Our Water; Heat Ready CA; 99 Calor

  • Action 10 Support community care and health care settings for vulnerable populations, such as older adults, people with disabilities, health care patients, pregnant people, infants, and children, to prepare for safe temperatures in extreme heat events.

    Success Metric: Provide population specific education to facility staff and residents on extreme heat and heat-related illness prevention to mitigate heat and heat-related citations at childcare, children's residential care, and adult and senior care facilities licensed by the Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division.

    Timeframe: 2025

    Agency/Agencies: Health and Human Services Agency - Department of Social Services

    For More Details: Community Care Licensing