#vulnerable-person-outreach

Official cooling centers, as typically operated, serve few heat-vulnerable people: NYC's 2022 audit found 50% closed Saturdays and 83% closed Sundays; an LA mobility study found ~90% of cooling visits go to informal commercial spaces that exclude unhoused users. Hours, transport,

Free portable heat-pump or AC units for low-income, high-risk residents (60 and over, medical conditions, living alone), distributed through trusted community organizations that identify recipients, deliver, install and educate, rather than by the city directly.

Piggyback heat protection on trusted community health worker cadres who already go door-to-door in informal settlements: pre-alert awareness visits, symptom spotting and first response during heatwaves, reaching households that no cooling center or broadcast will.

A city registry of heat-vulnerable residents (isolated elderly, people with disabilities or chronic illness) paired with scripted phone check-ins by trained agents during heat alerts, escalating to in-person visits when calls go unanswered. Opt-out enrollment by default — opt-in

Cooling Portland was created after the June 2021 heat dome, in which 72 people died in Multnomah County, mostly older people living alone without air conditioning. Funded by the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits…

The ASHA outreach layer is the social core of the Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan, South Asia's first, launched in 2013. ASHA community health workers, already embedded in the city's informal settlements, were trained to con…

The CHALEX registry (since renamed REFLEX) was created in 2004 after the August 2003 heatwave that killed 14,802 people in France, roughly 82 percent of them aged 75 and over. Parisians who are elderly, disabled or isol…