What is SciCAN?
SciCAN, the Science and Community Action Network, is a community-centered web platform resource library that connects grassroots movements, scientists, technical and subject-matter experts from neighborhoods across the country.
Features
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 
SciCAN is a simple interactive platform that will be easy for people to utilize.
— Dr. Bruce Strouble Jr.Founder and Director of Citizens for A Sustainable Future 
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 MartinezExecutive Director CleanAirNow 
Civic science researchers have been waiting for a platform like this 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 
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