This enewsletter from the DNREC Delaware Coastal Training Program (CTP) features resources that are available for Delaware's community leaders and natural resource managers to help us plan smarter for safer and more sustainable communities!
The roundup includes highlights of upcoming trainings, tools, technical assistance programs, and funding sources from the CTP as well as other local practitioners and technical experts. Please be in touch if you have more updates to share or are looking for additional info!
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Training and Classroom Learning Opportunities
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Community Climate Adaptation Planning
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Weds. Jan. 16 - Thurs. Jan. 17, 2018
St. Jones Reserve Coastal Training Center, Dover
$20 Registration fee covers lunch and refreshments.
Communities across Delaware from the coastal areas to more inland cities and towns increasingly realize the need for climate adaptation strategies, but many are unsure where to begin. This intensive and interactive course provides individuals from the bigger cities to rural towns with a thorough grounding and practical skills for incorporating adaptation strategies into planning processes. Time in class is provided to practice applying what you learn, and opportunities for local collaboration and next steps are emphasized through discussion, participant activities, and local speakers and examples.
Participants will learn how to:
- Apply the basic elements of an adaptation planning framework to organize future preparedness efforts,
- Translate climate science into impacts on local community assets and practice compiling a vulnerability assessment,
- Identify, compare, and prioritize locally relevant adaptation strategies and actions,
- Describe implementation options for different strategies.
Who should take this course:
County, municipal and community leaders, regional and municipal planners, state agency staff, natural resource managers, non-profit and academic-based collaborative supporters & organizers, and more.
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AICP and CFM credits will be available for participating American Planning Association professionals.
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Planning Effective Projects
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Wednesday, Feb. 6 - Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019
St. Jones Reserve Coastal Training Center, Dover
$50 Registration fee covers lunch and refreshments.
It seems simple enough. Start with a good idea and everything else will fall into place. Unfortunately, it rarely works that way.
In this interactive workshop from the
NOAA Office of Coastal Management, using your idea, you will learn how to design a project that reaches the right audience, has the intended impact, and achieves measurable results. You'll sharpen your information gathering, project planning, and evaluation skills, and walk away with the ability and confidence to build in the accountability and strategic thinking needed to achieve project success.
View course flyer here!
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Who should take this course:
County, municipal and community leaders, regional and municipal planners, state agency staff, natural resource managers, non-profit and academic-based collaborative supporters & organizers, and more. Great for those planning and implementing grant projects!
Note: this course is a prerequisite for the Planning for Meaningful Evaluation training below
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Communicating Risk Training and Workshop
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Save the Date!
Wednesday, April 10 - Thursday April 11, 2019
St. Jones Reserve Coastal Training Center, Dover
Registration information to be announced!
A key element of communicating effectively about risk is identifying the audience’s diverse values and concerns, and using that information to design a communication approach. The goal is a high level of community engagement—and action. This training and workshop will help Delaware community leaders understand and connect with stakeholders and inspire risk-wise behavior through improved communication. Topics include: how and why people perceive risk differently, how to learn more about your audience, best practices for risk communication, ways to frame your conversations to appeal to a variety of audiences, and sample conversations for responding to difficult questions.
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Planning for Meaningful Evaluation
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Wednesday, May 1 - Thursday, May 2, 2019
St. Jones Reserve Coastal Training Center, Dover
$50 Registration fee covers lunch and refreshments.
Do you ever ask yourself, “Is my program designed to reach its goals?” or “How do I measure the performance of my existing program?” We would like to help you answer those questions.
This training addresses in detail the increasing demand for evidence of program accountability and impact by preparing participants for a meaningful evaluation. Participants will actively engage in creating a comprehensive evaluation plan. The purpose of the training is to provide an in depth understanding of the elements of evaluation, so that participants are able to make informed choices to create fundamentally sound evaluation plans for existing or longstanding programs.
Logic modeling is a concept at the heart of the effective program design and meaningful evaluation techniques taught in course. Participants in the workshop will be expected to understand logic modeling and are encouraged to bring a working or draft logic model built for your program with you to use during the workshop.
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This workshop requires previous training in the development and use of logic models. If you have attended NOAA’s Planning Effective Projects workshop or you have other training in the development and use of logic models then you may attend this workshop.
Who should take this course:
County, municipal and community leaders, regional and municipal planners, state agency staff, natural resource managers, non-profit and academic-based collaborative supporters & organizers, and more.
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In-Person Networking & Discussion Opportunity
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Delaware Resilient and Sustainable Community League Coffee Hour
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 9:30-11:30 am
Registration is free, but required by Feb. 4.
Dover Public Library, Multipurpose Room A
35 Loockerman Plaza, Dover, Del. 19901
Parking available in the lot adjacent to the building
Please join the Delaware Resilient and Sustainable Communities League (RASCL) for an informal and interactive discussion with RASCL members.
RASCL representatives will be on hand to discuss methods of improving community resilience and sustainable practices to conditions such as coastal storms, sea level rise, and/or climate change related issues.
The focus of this session will be set depending on the outcomes of the 2018 RASCL Summit and will be announced soon.
This event is an opportunity for you to network, ask questions, and exchange ideas on your current community issues and potential mitigation or adaptation project ideas. Attendees can discuss with our experts methods of developing proposals, finding project partners, and building internal capacity in order to get a project off the ground. Hear about funding and technical resources available to help your community to take action and more!
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Community Environmental Project Fund Grant Application Availability
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The Community Environmental Project Fund provides money to support the restoration of the environment in communities that were damaged by environmental pollution.
The Community Environmental Project Fund was created by the Delaware General Assembly in 2004 and allows the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to establish a grant fund by withholding 25% of funds collected as penalties for violations of environmental regulations. These funds are returned to the communities where the violations occurred as competitive grants to nonprofit organizations to support community environmental projects.
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2019 Community Environmental Project Fund Grants
Applications are due by January 4, 2019.
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Eligible community environmental projects must mitigate pollution, enhance the environment, or create recreational opportunities.
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Find additional grant opportunities by searching the Delaware Database for Funding Resilient Communities!
Storm surges, nor’easters, heavy precipitation events, and sea level rise threaten municipalities around the state, and climate models predict that these hazards will increase in severity and frequency in the future. Financial assistance programs are available to support the implementation of projects to prepare for and adapt to these threats. The
Institute for Public Administration (IPA) at the University of Delaware, with support from
DNREC Delaware Coastal Programs office, compiled relevant financial assistance programs into a searchable web database for Delaware’s local governments.
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Guide to using the database
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As a part of our mission, the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve is committed to promoting informed decision making through the Delaware Coastal Training Program. This program addresses critical coastal resource management issues in Delaware by providing current scientific information, access to technologies and skill-building opportunities to Delawareans responsible for making decisions about the state's coastal resources.
Requests for submittal: Have a great resource, training, or program that you want to share with Delaware community leaders and natural resources managers to help make our communities safer and more sustainable? Please submit information for inclusion in this e-newsletter to the contact below.
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Kelly Valencik | Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve | 302-378-5734
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