Handbook / Guide 
This guide helps local governments and community organizations build climate resilience by strengthening social connections. It draws on the Connecting Beaconsfield initiative, a community-driven project in Beaconsfield, Quebec (Canada) that brought residents together to build local relationships and a stronger sense of belonging as a foundation for climate adaptation as a real-world model for what people-centred resilience-building can look like in practice. The guide makes the case that social resilience is a key contributor to community resilience overall, then offers practical tools to act on that: activities suited to different stages of connection-building work, case stories from Beaconsfield and beyond, and key takeaways for strengthening or refining initiatives already underway.
