Location:<\/strong> University of Maine Working with the Governor\u2019s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF), the project team is conducting broad-based engagement with low-income and disadvantaged communities to ensure that their concerns and priorities are included in the process of developing Maine\u2019s next state climate action plan. The project is focused on three tasks: 1) Engaging with low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to contribute to the climate planning process; 2) Supporting members of low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations serving as working group members; 3) Developing climate and equity training and guidance for the Maine Climate Council and its six working groups.<\/p>\n The project team includes five faculty with nearly a century of combined experience leading community engagement projects, including projects with GOPIF that have focused on disadvantaged communities. This team has considerable experience working together, and has a proven track-record when it comes to such essential practices as convening, facilitation, mediation and conflict resolution. The team is supported by the Mitchell Center\u2019s award-winning staff and graduate and undergraduate students.<\/p>\n By definition, community engagement requires \u201cmeeting communities where they are.\u201d So the bulk of the work on this project will involve face-to-face engagement with individuals and organizations in their own communities. The project team is using a wide variety of engagement methods (e.g. focus groups, interviews, storytelling), all of which involve various forms of listening.<\/p>\n The project draws upon the Mitchell Center\u2019s breadth and depth of partnerships with over 200 stakeholder organizations spread across all 16 Maine counties. We are also collaborating directly with GOPIF to identify community partners who have developed trust-based relationships with particular priority populations that GOPIF has identified (e.g. migrant farm workers, New Mainers).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Engaging With Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities for State Climate Action Planning Location: University of Maine Sponsor: State of Maine – Governor\u2019s Office for Policy Innovation and the Future Working with the Governor\u2019s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF), the project team is conducting broad-based engagement with low-income and disadvantaged communities to ensure that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"parent":31727,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31227,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31169\/revisions\/31227"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSponsor:<\/strong> State of Maine – Governor\u2019s Office for Policy Innovation and the Future<\/p>\nProject Team<\/h4>\n
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Resources<\/h4>\n
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\n2020 Report to the Maine Climate Council\n<\/li>\n
\nSummer 2020 Mitchell Center article<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n