The "CREATE Resilience: Community Resilience through Education, Art, Technology and Engagement" project, led by Nurture Nature Center, Inc., is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between youth and community to increase knowledge about weather and climate science, risks from local hazards, and strategies for hazard mitigation, while storytelling and co-creating a vision for community resilience. CREATE Resilience engages three hazard-prone communities in the Lehigh Valley (Pennsylvania) in a comprehensive education and action initiative to improve environmental hazards literacy, and increase engagement in resiliency actions by youth and adult residents.

Residents will participate in active-learning education events, dialogue forums, arts-based activities, technology-based programs using NOAA assets, and hands-on preparedness activities. Each community will build a collective understanding of local hazards, and mitigation strategies from an expert advisory team and newly updated regional hazard mitigation plan, while co-creating a vision for resilience, represented in visual murals. Dissemination through NOAA's Science on a Sphere® Network and guidebooks will share the replicable model with other organizations and communities.