ALL HANDS Facilitators' Training

ALL HANDS is a 10-session curriculum to strengthen community-driven preparedness for climate disasters in California. Read all about ALL HANDS here.

First All Facilitator's Training

In Oakland, from May 14 - 16, 2026, the ALL HANDS project team trained a set of facilitators from 25 place-based teams from California climate vulnerable communities.

The purpose of the trainers' training is to equip teams to offer the ALL HANDS curriculum back in their communities.

We aimed for each team participating in the trainers' training to emerge with key ingredients needed to offer ALL HANDS back home, including:

a shared understanding of the knowledge, skills, and values that inform ALL HANDS;
the curricular materials, including digital & customizable modules in English and Spanish;
the planning materials, including a digital & customizable workbook of templates for logistics and budget planning;
an internal assessment of team strengths and statewide network relationships upon which to call to fill gaps; and
an initial plan towards implementation back home.

This trainers' training is intended for teams who…

seek to implement ALL HANDS within their own community (it's okay if you don't have a plan for it yet);
are there on behalf of a climate vulnerable community within California; and
can attend in groups of 2-4 people who work together as part of a place-based team.

ALL HANDS welcomes teams composed of representatives from the community (e.g., resident leaders or staff in community-based groups, organizations, or hubs), facilitators or intermediaries that work within the community, and lastly, when applicable, university-based researchers or facilitators from California institutions of higher education with whom the community has an existing working relationship.

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