What is SciCAN?
SciCAN, the Science and Community Action Network, is an environmental justice designed and community-led centered web platform resources library that connects grassroots movements, scientists, and technical and subject-matter experts from neighborhoods across the country.
Features
Resource Library
Included with each file or document is a summary and a description of the item's utility. These files will be searchable by tags or keywords that are most pertinent to the SciCAN members.
Membership Map
A visual representation of user locations, profiles and infowindows, so people can connect based on shared geography, interests, skill sets and/or areas of expertise.
Find an Expert
Through connections made on the membership map, members can use the “find an expert” feature to contact the SciCAN administrators who will attempt to locate an expert to respond to the inquiry.
Forum
This section is built to promote dialogue between users and provide a platform to ask questions about research, advocacy, or other user experience and expertise.
Why join SciCAN?
SciCAN provides a space to build alliances that protect our most vulnerable communities while they battle constant threats that stem from environmental, economic and social injustice. There are a number of benefits available to SciCAN users. Here are just a few:
- Access to shared research, resources, projects and personal stories.
- Connections with allies from variety of backgrounds without geographical barriers.
- A single location that fosters open and inclusive communication within our diverse community, including between advocacy groups and subject matter experts.
- Up-to-date information, with forums and resources that are continuously evolving as the movement evolves.
- Opportunities for scientists and other experts to bring their work into practice in service of frontline communities.
Our Community
With people’s lives on the line, we can’t afford to work alone. Making connections across cities, states, perspectives and disciplines while taking the lead from the frontlines—that’s how we’ll build power in the movement for environmental justice and health equity.
— Katherine CatalanoDeputy Director of the Center for Climate, Health and Equity at the American Public Health Association 
They call it interdisciplinary research, I call it collective work and responsibility - coming together for our families and communities for a world better than what we found!
— P. Qasimah Boston, DrPH, MPHBehavior Scientist and Health Educator 
SciCAN is a platform that provides community, scientists, actually everyone, an arena to share thoughts, ideas, on-going research, and data on issues of environmental concern, climate change and climate justice.
— Dawud ShabakaInterim Executive Director, Harambee House, Inc. / Citizens for Environmental Justice 
Building Community Power through equitable community led research, Data is a tool. But if the community isn’t driving the science and change, then the data is useless.
— Beto Lugo MartinezEnvironmental Justice Organizer 
Civic science researchers have been waiting for a SciCAN to seed projects and help communities benefit from resources otherwise confined within academic institutions.
— Lourdes VeraAssistant Professor Department of Sociology Department of Environment and Sustainability University at Buffalo 
We of the Environmental Justice communities, which have many impacts and vulnerabilities must support SciCAN as an evidence based tool kit to prove the need for mitigations in Environmental Justice communities.
— Ms. Margaret GordonCo-Director West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project 
Data and research are valuable tools but we miss opportunities when they're exclusive to academia and journals and not integrated into everyday life.
— Elizabeth FriedmanMD, MPH , SciCAN co-founder and medical director of Environmental Health at an Academic Institution - Kansas City 
Decision-makers must have access to community-led, industry-independent data sets. By providing a safe platform for community members to partner with academic researchers, SciCAN is at the forefront of a research and data revolution.
— Monica E. Unseld Ph. D, MPHUntil Justice Data Partners 
SciCAN is rooted in environmental justice principles, designed and led utilizing fenceline community expertise, to support our movement across intersectional issues. EJ calls for the continued education of present and future generations, place based knowledge which exemplifies that we are the experts.
— Atenas MenaMSN, RN, CPN 
EJ communities understand the problems and have the solutions to our environmental crises. This expertise must be front, center, and valued in research and policy if we are to achieve the transformative change we need.
— Jessica ThomasProject Director 
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With people’s lives on the line, we can’t afford to work alone. Making connections across cities, states, perspectives and disciplines while taking the lead from the frontlines—that’s how we’ll build power in the movement for environmental justice and health equity.
— Katherine CatalanoDeputy Director of the Center for Climate, Health and Equity at the American Public Health Association
They call it interdisciplinary research, I call it collective work and responsibility - coming together for our families and communities for a world better than what we found!
— P. Qasimah Boston, DrPH, MPHBehavior Scientist and Health Educator
SciCAN is a platform that provides community, scientists, actually everyone, an arena to share thoughts, ideas, on-going research, and data on issues of environmental concern, climate change and climate justice.
— Dawud ShabakaInterim Executive Director, Harambee House, Inc. / Citizens for Environmental Justice
Building Community Power through equitable community led research, Data is a tool. But if the community isn’t driving the science and change, then the data is useless.
— Beto Lugo MartinezEnvironmental Justice Organizer
Civic science researchers have been waiting for a SciCAN to seed projects and help communities benefit from resources otherwise confined within academic institutions.
— Lourdes VeraAssistant Professor Department of Sociology Department of Environment and Sustainability University at Buffalo
We of the Environmental Justice communities, which have many impacts and vulnerabilities must support SciCAN as an evidence based tool kit to prove the need for mitigations in Environmental Justice communities.
— Ms. Margaret GordonCo-Director West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
Data and research are valuable tools but we miss opportunities when they're exclusive to academia and journals and not integrated into everyday life.
— Elizabeth FriedmanMD, MPH , SciCAN co-founder and medical director of Environmental Health at an Academic Institution - Kansas City
Decision-makers must have access to community-led, industry-independent data sets. By providing a safe platform for community members to partner with academic researchers, SciCAN is at the forefront of a research and data revolution.
— Monica E. Unseld Ph. D, MPHUntil Justice Data Partners
SciCAN is rooted in environmental justice principles, designed and led utilizing fenceline community expertise, to support our movement across intersectional issues. EJ calls for the continued education of present and future generations, place based knowledge which exemplifies that we are the experts.
— Atenas MenaMSN, RN, CPN
EJ communities understand the problems and have the solutions to our environmental crises. This expertise must be front, center, and valued in research and policy if we are to achieve the transformative change we need.
— Jessica ThomasProject Director
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