Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) is a unique community-based, community-driven, program designed to help community partnerships understand and reduce risks due to toxins and environmental pollutants from all sources.

The objectives of the workshop is to provide training, tools and resources to both Level I and Level II CARE grantees to improve their communities’ environment and health.  Specifically, the workshop aims to provide participants with skills and tools:

• Research and prioritize environmental and health risks and the impacts in their communities (Level I);
• Develop partnerships and coalitions to build consensus within their communities on key environmental problems and proposed solutions (Level I);
• Motivate and mobilize local partners and community members to act, in order to reduce environmental impacts and risks (Level I and II); and
• Ensure projects are self-sustaining, by building long-term capacity within the CARE partnerships and through development of sustainable funding sources (Level I and Level II).

The workshops aim is to facilitate networking and communication among CARE grantees to enhance and encourage peer-to-peer learning.