​Menu of Technical ​Assistance​

The Climate Change Local Assistance Unit provides the following kinds of technical assistance to Local Health Jurisdictions:

• Finding new funding and identifying strategies for incorporating climate work into existing funding streams
  

• Integrating climate and health equity into existing public health programs
  

• Accessing, utilizing, and disseminating data and mapping tools

• Conducting, analyzing, communicating, and sharing vulnerability assessments

• ​Providing support to local Tribes and tribal-serving organizations to plan to address the health equity impacts of climate change​
  

• Training staff on climate change and health equity

• Planning to reduce health impacts of extreme heat
  

• Conducting climate and health planning and integrating climate into Local Hazard Mitigation Plans, Climate Action & Adaptation Plans, General Plan Safety Elements, or Public Health Emergency Preparedness Plans
  

• Incorporating climate considerations into public health communications
  

• Identifying steps to launch LHJ climate work and to expand existing work​​

• The new CDPH Interim Guide to Health Equity Centered Local Heat Planning assists local jurisdictions with incorporating health equity into new or existing heat action and planning efforts. The guide contains long-term planning and policy actions as well as emergency preparedness and response actions recommended for before, during, and after a heat season and a specific extreme heat event. This resource can help facilitate partnerships between local health departments, offices of emergency services, and other local agencies. Released September 29, 2023.​

• The CDPH Guidance for Local Health Jurisdictions and Community Service Providers for Extreme Heat provides local health jurisdictions (LHJs) and other community-based service providers recommendations and resources to protect communities from heat-related health impacts, with particular focus on supporting population groups most at risk. Updated August 4, 2023.