“[The Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool] RAFT is a collaborative, community-driven process and full-service tool developed to help Virginia’s coastal localities improve resilience to flooding and other coastal storm hazards while remaining economically and socially viable.”
RAFT has a large variety of resources for coastal communities to use in their resiliency planning, including:
- Presentations on incorporating resiliency into comprehensive plans
- An Emergency Risk Communication Planning Worksheet
- Planning for Resilience: Evaluation and Prioritization (PREP) Tool
- Case studies of of actions taken by coastal communities to develop resiliency
- Communications products (postcards, infographics, etc)
- Scorecards, Checklists, and Opportunity Lists
- Resilience maps
- A list of state and national resilience resources.