Strengthening Climate Resilience in Glen Eira

Join our two days’ workshop series for contributing to strengthen climate resilience in Glen Eira City Council.

Workshop 1:

Date and time: 17 June, at 9.00am-1.30pm

Venue: Murrumbeena Community Hub, 28 Gerald Street,

Murrumbeena, VIC 3163

Workshop 2:

Date and time: 22 July, at 9.00am-1.30pm

Venue: Murrumbeena Community Hub, 28 Gerald Street,

Murrumbeena, VIC 3163

Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, storms and floods, are already being felt in communities across Glen Eira. Community service and health organisations, together with local government and emergency services, can play a critical role in local climate change adaptation and resilience planning. Collaboration across these local organisations can facilitate the types of local responses to climate change impacts we know are needed.

This workshop series is hosted by the Jesuit Social Services' (Centre for Just Places) and Glen Eira City Council. Over two half day sessions, we will consider:

• The local current and future risks that a changing climate poses for local organisations in Glen Eira, and those you support;
• The emerging roles and responsibilities of local organisations in this uncertain environment; and
• Opportunities to strengthen local resilience through cross-sector collaboration.

The sessions will bring together diverse perspectives, representing a range of local services, to better understand what it means to build a more resilient Glen Eira. Together we will identify the role and needs of your organisation, and of community service and health organisations in Glen Eira more broadly, and shape next steps.

We’ll explore how climate change may impact your work and the communities you work with through a scenario exercise, and offer tools to adapt organisational cultures, practices and operations that can respond equitably and responsibly to climate risks.

It doesn't matter where you or your organisation are in the journey of understanding or adapting to climate change: join the workshops to learn with others and helo build a more resilient Glen Eira.

Who should attend?

Community service and community health staff across service delivery, operations, policy, community development and management. Participants do not need to be working directly in sustainable orenvironmental projects, and no prior knowledge of climate change is required.