CIEA provides support for Tribal leadership and Tribal staff to self-advocate for the benefit of their own People in keeping with principles of Tribal self-determination. This support includes providing, capacity-building, strategic planning, trainings and outreach in partnership with California Tribes with Tribal members and Tribal leadership guiding our programs and projects.

Current Programs

Climate Planning and Capacity-building

CIEA is supporting North Coast Tribes through Climate progrrams being initiated in the first quarter of 2025 in partnership with the Salmon Restoration Federation and the North Coast Resource Partnership. for more information contact sherri@cieaweb.org or joels@cieaweb.org. More information will be posted when these programs are live.

The Northern CA Tribal Climate Portal

The Northern California Tribal Climate Collaborative (NCTCC) Portal contains a comprehensive collection of available tools and resources to support Tribes in the completion of climate vulnerability assessments and the development of actionable climate resiliency plans.

Salmon Reorienting to Recovery

Collaboration of Tribes, NGOs and agencies to evaluate solutions and modeling to reach salmon resiliency from the Sacramento River headwaters through the San Francisco Bay. Phase II is in review and there are funds available for Tribes in the region to pay staff or consultants to support that reivew. For more information contact Michelle Rivera micheller.ciea@gmail.com

Tribal Beneficial Uses

CIEA supports Tribes in their efforts to update Basin Plan Amendments by designating waterbodies with Tribal Cultural Uses and Tribal Subsistence Uses. The TBU Strategic Planning Caucus meets monthly online to discuss best practices and support each other’s work. All Tribes in the state of California are welcome. Funds are availalbe for those Tribes who wish to prepare and attend State and Regional Board metings on behalf of thier own community. For more information on upcoming meeting dates or reimbursement for travel to Board meetings contact Michelle Rivera micheller.ciea@gmail.com For more information about Regional Board processes view the State Water Resources Control Board’s Tribal Affairs website.

Bioaccumulation Monitoring

The State Water Resources Control Board and CIEA collaborated with Big Valley Rancheria to co-host the Bioaccumulation Monitoring Program Training Series  to support California Native American Tribes in developing programs in the areas of bioaccumulation monitoring, data analysis, and data use processes, and enable Tribes and other bioaccumulation monitoring groups to adopt those processes into their workflows and more easily partner with their regional Boards the Bioaccumulation Program and the Safe to Eat Workgroup.