Readying communities for climate change by building trust, care and agency.
The PREPARE framework
Centre Ring: Three Elements
Middle Ring: Capacities
Outside Ring: Practices
The Anti-framework
Centre Ring: Three Elements
Middle Ring: Barriers
Outside Ring: Traps and Bad Habits
Practices in the PREPARE framework
Understanding
Know your audience.
Use stories and translate complexity.
Connecting
Engage early, often and openly.
Build institutional alignment.
Opening
Create space for challenging conversations.
Support working through emotions.
Belonging
Co-explore risks and co-create solutions.
Start from community strengths.
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The PREPARE framework
The PREPARE framework helps communicators develop and implement climate preparedness actions that start with local knowledge and invite audiences into decision-making. It guides communicators towards building community agency, care and trust, three essential components to establishing preparedness as a public good and making people feel safe in approaching change.
The PREPARE framework was developed by Re.Climate as part of the Climate Ready Prairies research project. Re.Climate worked in collaboration with ClimateWest, a regional hub for climate services in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The project team also worked closely with SevGen Consulting Inc., an Indigenous-owned firm, which provided expertise on engaging with Indigenous partners and incorporating their perspectives respectfully and openly.
The PREPARE framework is a valuable tool for anyone helping their community to get ready for climate impacts. It was developed with and for Prairie communities but offers an approach that communicators in the other parts of the country can easily adapt.
This page provides a description of the PREPARE framework—and its related practices—and the Anti-framework. If you would prefer a downloadable PDF version of this material, please see The Climate Ready Prairies Guide. A PDF of the PREPARE framework graphic can be found here. Tools to help communicators and organizations put the PREPARE framework into practice are available here. And four case studies from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba can be found here. Note: The tools and case studies are also available as appendices in The Climate Ready Prairies Guide, as are the references.
The framework has three rings:
The Centre Ring
The centre ring represents what people need in order to engage meaningfully in preparedness processes. The three key elements include:
Agency
People need to feel they have a say in the process and be empowered to make choices for themselves so they can contribute to preparing for climate impacts. The public as partners is key.
Care
People need to feel that you care about them, and that preparedness actions and policies aim to protect and support them and others.
Trust
People need to trust the process, the credibility and integrity of the communicators doing the work.
The Middle Ring
The middle ring represents the capacities at the heart of the PREPARE framework. Focusing on these capacities can help communicators build understanding about adaptation, include Indigenous and marginalized communities from the start and respond to a range of emotions. Together, these approaches can help build a sense of agency, care and trust.
Understanding
Communicators are creating space for listening and shared learning with the public.
Connecting
Communicators are creating opportunities to convene and build relationships with the public.
Opening
Communicators are creating transparency and psychological safety with the public.
Belonging
Communicators are creating inclusion and empowerment with the public.
The Outside Ring
The third ring outlines the practices that can help build the above capacities:
Understanding
Know your audience.
Use stories and translate complexity.
Connecting
Engage early, often and openly.
Build institutional alignment.
Opening
Create space for challenging conversations.
Support working through emotions.
Belonging
Co-explore risks and co-create solutions.
Start from community strengths.
The Anti-Framework
The Anti-framework represents the barriers communicators face in achieving public support and involvement in preparedness goals, and what can happen if they fail to include the public as partners. The PREPARE framework is meant to help communicators respond to these common and often entrenched barriers.
The Anti-framework has three rings:
The Centre Ring
Distrust
People do not trust you and ignore your messaging/engagement attempts.
Helplessness
People feel there is nothing they can do about climate impacts. They feel powerless to act.
Alienation
People feel you do not care about them. Climate preparedness actions do not reflect their needs or concerns.
The Middle Ring
The middle ring of the anti-framework represents the barriers communicators face to building public support for climate preparedness action.
Low Literacy
When people don’t understand climate adaptation, they won’t understand why it matters; when communicators don’t build literacy, they won’t get their message across effectively.
Defensiveness
When people are defensive, they may feel protective of existing ways of doing things; when communicators feel defensive, they may not want the public involved in or aware of decision-making.
Polarization
When people feel polarized, they may instinctively oppose an idea because it is linked to something they strongly oppose. When communicators fixate on polarization, they may develop strategies and plans based on fear and a desire to avoid conflict.
Isolation
When people feel isolated, they feel alone in their concern about climate change and are less inclined to act; when communicators feel isolated, it can lead to burnout.
The Outside Ring
Low literacy
Assume you know your audience.
Provide jargon-filled information.
Isolation
Engage once, in a limited way.
Work in silos.
Polarization
Ask for a lot and give nothing in return.
Impose solutions.
Defensiveness
Shut down conversations.
Ignore or belittle emotions.
The outside ring contains examples of traps and bad habits in communications and engagement. They break trust and lead to challenges such as defensiveness, low literacy, isolation and polarization down the road.
In some places, these challenges are on the horizon. In others, they are already happening. By following the PREPARE Framework, you will be able to address these challenges.
Practices in The Prepare Framework
Each of the eight practices helps to strengthen the framework’s capacities, which, in turn, build agency, care and trust.
The practices are unpacked below.
Want to dive deeper? Tools to help communicators and organizations put the PREPARE framework into practice are available here, and four case studies from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba can be found here. Note: The practices, tools, case studies and references are also available in The Climate Ready Prairies Guide.
Understanding: Practice #1
Know your audience
To engage and communicate effectively, take time to understand your audience, what they care about and their prior relationships with governments and organizations, especially around climate impacts or extreme weather preparedness. Identifying community goals, priorities and values is also key for tailoring language and engagement strategies to people’s interests and needs. Skipping this step makes efforts less effective. More time may be wasted later trying to recover and rebuild trust. Adaptation programs and policies may be jeopardized altogether.
Getting to know Piapot First Nation’s community needs
Darlynn Lavallee, an environmental engineer-in-training with Piapot First Nation, Sask., recognized the importance of understanding the community’s needs through meaningful engagement. During the land use planning process, she organized an Elder-Youth event to learn what these groups wanted to see in their community. She also went door to door distributing flyers for planning events to encourage Nation members to participate. Rather than beginning with climate adaptation, the focus was on initiatives such as land use planning, energy and housing assessments, water management planning and long-term capital planning. That work ultimately positioned Piapot First Nation to undertake climate adaptation planning from a much stronger foundation.
“The function of Aboriginal values and customs is to maintain the relationships that hold creation together…[v]alues and customs are the participatory part that Aboriginal people play in the maintenance of creation.”
—(Bear, 2000 p. 81)
Start from values
Values are a person’s guiding principles, developed by interacting with our families, community and larger culture (Corner, et al., 2014). Although values are generally stable, significant events, such as the birth of a child, can prompt people to revisit them. People can also hold contradictory values. For example, someone may want to protect their home from wildfire but may also be very frugal and value saving money. They may, therefore, see the cost of wildfire protection as putting their frugality in conflict with the value of security.
Re.Climate has consistently found that people are deeply concerned about protecting the people and places they love (Re.Climate, 2024). Connecting climate preparedness to what people love makes the need to prepare more concrete (Moser, 2013). It is not about preventing change, but about helping people maintain their connections to the places and communities they care about as they change.
There are a number of ways to identify people’s values. Start by learning your community’s history. Are there important local landmarks or natural spaces that would be unacceptable to lose or change? Interview long-time residents, attend community events, like pow-wows, seasonal fairs or neighbourhood festivals. These types of events can show what a community cares about and, therefore, how to frame your climate preparedness messaging.
Examples of values relevant to adaptation work
- Altruism: Caring about others and helping them, even when there is nothing to gain personally.
- Independence: Valuing the freedom to make your own decisions and take care of yourself.
- Justice: Believing that people should be treated fairly and have their rights respected.
- Equity: Recognizing that people have different needs and may need different kinds of support to have a fair chance.
- Frugality: Using money and resources carefully and avoiding waste.
- Living in balance with nature: Valuing a way of life that respects nature and recognizes our connection to it.
- Security: Valuing safety, stability and protection from harm or uncertainty.
- Tradition: Valuing customs, practices and knowledge passed down through generations
- Nature stewardship: Caring for and protecting animals, forests, water and local food systems for future generations.
- Dependability: Being reliable and following through on your commitments.
- Open-mindedness: Being willing to consider new ideas, perspectives and ways of doing things.
- Courage: Being willing to face challenges, risks or difficult situations.
“I believe that the ethos of Saskatchewan is built on the prairie. We know how to handle drought and floods; we know how to handle cold weather. We’ve been tilling the soil from the beginning. You know, we’ve made it through the dirty ‘30s. That’s kind of the ethos that’s woven through.”
—Climate Ready Prairies project advisory committee member
Understanding: Practice #2
Use stories and translate complexity
Facts help build understanding and identify potential solutions, but motivation to act comes from people’s values and emotions.
Stories and lived experience allow emotional expression, cultural grounding and connection to the land. Indigenous stories can provide insights for sustainable practices. Stories and plain language can make complex issues easier to understand by showing the problem, what people can do and the opportunities that action can create.
For example, it isn’t always clear to people how “working with nature” helps communities adapt to a changing climate. Stories about planting trees to cool buildings and restoring floodplains to protect homes and buildings combine these two important ideas—meeting people’s direct needs while benefiting nature.
Language and frames that meet people where they are
No publicly available research explores climate adaptation communications in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. This significant gap makes communicating about adaptation in the region very challenging.
As a result, the guidance on language and communication frames (the mental models people use to interpret the world around them) in this section relies on national and international surveys, data from other provinces and interpretations of social sciences research on political and social culture in the provinces.
Communicators should test any message strategies proposed here prior to using them in their communications plans.
Frame: Preparation and protection, not adaptation
National research suggests that preparedness and safety are important factors when people are considering supporting adaptation actions (Leger, 2025). This resonates with research from B.C. and Ontario, which showed that respondents preferred “prepare” over “resilience” or “adapt,” and that protecting communities, homes and essential services were considered the most compelling reasons to adapt to climate change (EcoAnalytics, 2026).
People in the region also want to protect future generations and the environment (Marshall et al., 2018). Recent research found that 39 per cent of Albertans, 42 per cent of Saskatchewan residents and 46 per cent of Manitobans believe future generations will be harmed a lot by climate change (Comeau, 2025).
These findings also correspond with recent research from the UK, showing that “protection” is a preferred term for discussing climate adaptation. Being specific—providing a clear vision of what adaptation will look like and how it will make the future better—led to significantly more support than presenting technical terms for adaptation or a basic explanation (Climate Outreach, 2026).
Use the words “preparedness” and “protection” when talking to people about adaptation plans. If you must use adaptation, avoid using it without discussing preparedness. In interviews with Indigenous communities for this project, participants said the term “climate change adaptation” didn’t resonate with them. People reported a preference for language grounded in lived experience, observation, balancing the needs of people and nature and land-based realities.
Emphasize how preparedness actions will protect people and infrastructure. Provide details about how these actions will be paid for and how much future risks will be reduced. Be specific and local with your messaging; don’t just present technical terms or brief explanations. Share a vision of how this adaptation action will make people’s lives better and safer.
Frame: Protecting nature
Canadians consider protecting future generations, protecting agriculture and food production and conserving nature and biodiversity as the main reasons to adapt to climate change (Leger, 2025). This is backed up by Re.Climate’s own research, which shows protecting nature and animals are consistently top concerns for Canadians (Re.Climate, 2024) and by interviews with Indigenous adaptation experts who emphasized the importance of land stewardship as a motivator for action. In their 2024 poll of producers’ perceptions of climate change and sustainability, Farmers for Climate Solutions found that 84 per cent of farmers considered protecting or enhancing biodiversity on their farm/ranch a top environmental priority (Leger and Farmers for Climate Solutions, 2024).
Find opportunities to demonstrate how planning for climate impacts will protect nature and places people love. Tying this to cultural revitalization and self-determination can be effective motivation for Indigenous communities. Emphasize opportunities for nature-based solutions like tree planting, restoring traditional food systems through gardening or ecosystem restoration.
Frame: Celebrate community strengths
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba share a history of mutual aid and collectivism, which can be powerful motivators for taking action on climate impacts (Wesley and Wong, 2022; Saunders and Adams, 2025; Diamantopolis, 2012). Emphasize the importance of relationships and how adaptation actions can build a better future for small, rural communities struggling with depopulation and a lack of services (Fletcher et al., 2020; Campbell-Gate et al., 2023). Celebrate the existing adaptiveness of agricultural producers and the volunteerism of women in their communities (Warren and Diaz, 2012; Mantei, 2024). Focus on what communities already do, and recognize the high importance placed on taking care of each other. Ground messaging in existing stories in which people in the region will recognize themselves.
Frame: Investing in community protection
The cost savings of climate adaptation are increasingly competing with concerns about the cost of living. Canadians want to feel confident that investments will actually reduce risk, deliver tangible protection and can be completed on time (EcoAnalytics, 2026). This suggests that people in the Prairies have similar expectations. In particular, people want to know the cost of adaptation measures, who will pay for it and how much it will reduce risk. People also want to see investment in public infrastructure, but they do need to understand the details of the costs and feel confident that their municipality can deliver on time and effective preparedness measures.
| Instead of… | Talk about… |
|---|---|
| Climate change | Extreme weather and specific, locally relevant impacts such as more frequent wildfires, floods, droughts and heatwaves |
| Adaptation/resilience | Preparedness |
| Vulnerability | Community strengths and independence |
| Reducing future costs | Keeping residents safe from flooding, extreme heat, wildfire smoke and water shortages now and in the future |
| Nature-based solutions | Taking care of the land and saving water |
| Global temperature trends | Local climate impacts |
| Addressing climate change impacts | Protecting our homes, communities, health, infrastructure and nature |
Note: Trust is fundamental to how people shape their attitudes and their willingness to listen to a message about climate adaptation. For example, the Alberta Narratives Project found that “[p]eople who were skeptical or dismissive of climate change often did so because of a lack of trust or respect for those they saw communicating climate change: especially the media, environmental campaigners and politicians” (Marshall et al., 2018, p. 35).
Developing agency, care and trust requires more than language. Communicators must consider who is best placed to communicate certain adaptation concepts and how people want to be engaged in the work.
Connecting: Practice #1
Engage early, often and openly
When communicators see their community as contributors to policies and programs rather than recipients, they can better address polarization, reduce the likelihood of misinformation spreading and work alongside residents to handle tough emotions. It also leads to better climate preparedness programs because they are designed by those who will benefit from them.
Working with people early, before a project or policy’s design has been finalized, is crucial to building trust. According to Re.Climate’s (2026) literature review “Getting to Yes,” fairness and openness are two important factors in building trust. Fairness perceptions in public engagement meetings, for example, “are influenced by how public meetings are held and how public comments are incorporated into project-related decisions” (p. 8).
Extensive research shows that people want to influence projects happening near them or in places they care about (Re.Climate 2026). This requires that communicators invite communities into decision-making (our modified version of Movement Strategy Centre’s Spectrum of Community Engagement tool can help clarify the purpose of an engagement effort and its goal).
It can also be helpful to ask community members how they want to be involved in a decision-making process. This can be especially useful when working with consultants, who can then get a clear sense of when and how they will be expected to engage with the community members.
It is important to clarify how much capacity a community has to be involved in the process. For example, farmers might not be able to participate in discussions about drought management during harvest time. But that doesn’t mean they don’t want their views heard. Try to receive input openly and be willing to change a project plan based on community feedback. Otherwise, there is a risk that engagement will come off as tokenistic or performative.
How Manitoba Eco-Network engages with its partners
The Climate Safe, Green City project builds climate resiliency alongside neighbourhood associations in lower-income areas of Winnipeg. Actions include urban gardens, emergency preparedness workshops and creative urban cooling projects. Sorsha Moore-Peters works for Manitoba Eco-Network on this project. She doesn’t tell the community associations what projects to do. Instead, she says, they “give us the puzzle pieces and we just figure out where they go.” Sorsha spends lots of time in the communities so people can ask her questions about the projects or share their ideas. She attends farmers’ markets and regularly meets with urban garden coordinators to discuss how the project is going and how Manitoba Eco-Network can better facilitate it.
Connecting: Practice #2
Build institutional alignment
Preparing a community for climate impacts cannot be the job of a single person in an organization or a single department in a community. Identifying and supporting internal champions and, eventually, integrating preparedness into everyday processes are critical tactics. This matters more for communities because, to implement climate preparedness well, alignment across departments is essential.
Alignment does not have to happen only within an organization. Regional partnerships, such as those between Indigenous communities and municipalities or across watersheds, can help share consistent information about climate impacts and preparedness and avoid confusion or conflicting messages.
“Adaptation is how we as a community respond to changes. What are those impacts going to be, and how does it impact our municipal services? How do we prepare for that? Because preparing now is a lot more cost-effective, and less harmful socially and environmentally, if we start now and develop those strategies.”
—Selkirk Climate Change Adaptation Strategy team member
Climate impacts can affect many parts of a community, so it is important to build a shared understanding of the risks and how they may affect people. Practitioners and experts interviewed for this guide said that identifying internal champions who can make preparing for climate change “normal” in their work was critical to ensuring the longevity of related programs or policies.
Opening: Practice #1
Create space for challenging conversations
Part of working on climate preparedness is addressing future impacts. That often means having tough conversations with groups regarding risks, options and trade-offs.
In some situations, using the term “climate change” can derail conversations (Fletcher et al., 2020). For example, municipalities, depending on past actions or their history with communities, may not be trusted, leading to automatic skepticism and pushback toward a proposal related to preparing for climate impacts (EcoAnalytics, 2026; Agrawal et al., 2022).
Ultimately, these are legitimate emotional responses, brought on by fear, anxiety and grief, and it is important that communicators not assume the causes of these emotions. Instead, enter conversations from a place of curiosity and empathy. American peacebuilding professor John Paul Lederach argues that addressing conflict means focusing on relationships and looking beyond the immediate issue to understand the history and context behind it (Lederach, 2003; Re.Climate 2026).
Research also shows that using independent facilitators for hard conversations and avoiding town-hall-style meetings (which can encourage confrontation and conflict) can help communicators ensure conversations build trust and relationships (Re.Climate 2026).
Creating safe spaces for conversation is a crucial step toward shifting social norms, which will be required to act on climate impacts.
Resources on creating safe spaces for hard conversations
Opening: Practice #2
Support working through emotions
Emotions are often ignored in climate communication and engagement efforts because they can be difficult to deal with. Yet communicators must recognize that emotions drive both action and inaction. When a person has no control over a situation, their emotional response can intensify (Lizarralde et al., 2025).
Preparing for climate impacts can be part of the grieving process. Communicators can lean on positive emotions, such as deep love of place, connection to the land, and its animals and medicines, and pride in community, that commit communities to helping the coming generations thrive.
You can also tap into these positive emotions to build support for action. People love where they live and actively care for it—from spring garbage clean-ups to working with groups like Ducks Unlimited on wetland conservation. Ironically, these positive emotions are why preparing for hard and terrifying events like fires or floods can be so painful and uncomfortable: something we love is being destroyed.
Emotions and uncertainty
A 2023 review of people’s decision-making approaches on climate change adaptation found that people may be more averse to uncertainty than to risk (Moure et al., 2023).
Building tolerance for uncertainty is part of building trust. People are more willing to explore action options when an organization they trust presents them and when trusted messengers share the information. Options also need to be grounded in local climate data and the needs and concerns of community members.
The psychological impact of natural disasters
Dr. Sherilee Harper, a professor of public health at the University of Alberta, conducted a study on the long-term psychological impacts of the 2016 wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta. At the 2024 ClimateWest Forum, she shared findings showing many Grade 7 to 12 students continued to meet the criteria for PTSD, anxiety, depression or substance abuse years after the wildfire. One and a half years after the wildfire, 46 per cent of students surveyed met those criteria. Three and a half years later, that figure was 51 per cent. While these findings do not establish that the wildfire was the sole cause, or indicate how levels compared to pre-fire baselines, they demonstrate that psychosocial impacts can remain significant well into recovery and should be considered in preparedness, communication and engagement efforts.
Belonging: Practice #1
Co-explore risks and co-create solutions
Climate risks are locally specific. This is why it is critical to draw on local knowledge to propose solutions that meet a community’s needs. People know about where they live and what is or is not possible in that context. In a 2020 literature review on what makes climate adaptation effective, researchers found that effective adaptation activities often included collaborative decision-making, resource sharing and actions that enhance wellbeing and relationships between institutions (Owen, 2020).
Communicators have a unique opportunity to bring people together to learn from one another. Knowledge gained from experiences outside the region may still be relatable to people living in the Prairies. For example, newcomers may already have profound experience with climate impacts, and this knowledge can be valuable when identifying solutions in the Prairies.
Two-Eyed Seeing
Two-Eyed Seeing was developed by Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall, who defined it as “learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of Western ways of knowing” (Hatcher et al., 2009, p. 146). In this way, Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and Western knowledge can complement each other.
Indigenous knowledge is highly localized and deeply historical. It is often thought of as place-based, accumulated and transmitted across generations within specific cultural contexts (Jessen et al., 2022). The Indigenous approach to climate change is holistic. Many communities do not separate the land’s well-being from their own and easily connect climate change impacts to other challenges (Cameron et al., 2021). A two-eyed seeing approach to climate preparedness intentionally, respectfully and equally brings together ways of knowing to find common ground. The Climate Atlas of Canada’s Indigenous Knowledges section is a great resource that provides examples of a two-eyed seeing approach.
Prairie Climate Centre: Cripping Climate Adaptation: Disability Justice and Climate Change report
In 2023, the Prairie Climate Centre, in collaboration with the University of Winnipeg, held an event to address the gap in research and practice on disability justice and climate change. Participants identified that disabled people are already creative and innovative in living in a world not built for them, meaning they are well-primed to think creatively about responding to climate impacts. They also noted that people who assist disabled people have experience and knowledge critical for successful adaptation planning and must be part of adaptation conversations.
“I feel this work is very crucial for First Nations, especially because, as a First Nations person, I can’t just move, right? I can’t just move because I don’t like the government; I’m tied to this land. My ancestors have been here forever.”
—Cody Sharphead, Director of Land Use and Environmental Planning, Treaty 8
Belonging: Practice #2
Start from community strengths
Every community has strengths it can harness to prepare for climate impacts. These can be emphasized in communications plans or better understood through engagement.
Campbell-Gale (2023) notes that in rural Saskatchewan communities, there is a lot of pride in how close-knit small towns are, the volunteerism they often share and their shared history of self-sufficiency. She also saw how people’s individual skills were put to use during a 2013 flood event. Knowing how to use large equipment, experience with sandbagging and the ins and outs of accessing provincial financial support—all of these skills proved essential and offer great storytelling opportunities about how a community can come together to manage present and future climate impacts.
Communities are already well-aware of their vulnerabilities. For example, for rural communities, depopulation, poor infrastructure or dependence on a single industry can all make it harder to adapt (Campbell-Gale, et al., 2023; Friberg, 2022). People do not need to be reminded of all that stands against them. Instead, communicators will find more success telling the story of a community’s long-term vision and the steps a nation, municipality or organization is taking to get there.
“One huge lesson here is that having community conversations about climate means having conversations about everything. Climate touches every aspect of our lives and health. Walking down that path with my neighbours, and going at a pace that works for everyone, is worth it.”
—Idris F., Climate Connector with Neighbouring for Climate (emphasis added)
Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, Man. builds strength from the ground up
As part of the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation’s youth work program, the lands department encouraged young people to engage in adaptation actions. While the youth planted trees or collected seeds, organizers took these opportunities to share land-based learnings and the Dakota language, so the youth could see how their culture was connected to the work they were doing.
To build confidence and a sense of power in the youth, they were invited to important lands department meetings and paid for their contributions, emphasizing that their knowledge and opinions were as valued as those of lands department staff. The youth program also invited youth to share their accomplishments with friends and family. This got the youth more excited about the initiatives. They became community ambassadors, sharing their stories at the Canadian Western Agriculture conference, on radio shows and on podcasts. One youth, Meadow, is now leading a Youth Land Warriors Advisory Circle, which brings together youth from different Nations to share knowledge.
“We planted the first orchard, and on my way to school, I could see apples growing. We can eat that. I did that.”
—Meadow Leaming, Sioux Valley Dakota Nation
The work program wasn’t explicitly about preparing for climate impacts. But the lands department took advantage of a community strength—good relationships with partners Skinner Seeds and Nature Conservancy Canada—and ran with it to expand the program’s opportunities. The department also recognizes the Dakota language and culture as strengths and taught them to the youth during planting and seed collecting. Meadow now wants the community to be self-sufficient and sovereign, while still sharing knowledge to uplift others.
Related Resources
The PREPARE Framework Graphic
The PREPARE Framework: Tools
The PREPARE Framework: Case Studies
The Climate Ready Prairies Guide
The Climate Ready Prairies Guide to Communicating and Engaging on Climate Adaptation (A Tip Sheet for Communicators)