About Place4Us and the Virtual Community Centers

Virtual Community Centers: A Place to Learn

A VCC combines elements for learning and skill development with elements for collaboration, activities, and information. There is emphasis on citizen science. Within the educational activities, VCCs have a main focus on literacies in sustainability, resilience, risk and information.

Place4Us has a focus on Literacy:

• Sustainability literacy
• Risk and Resilience Literacy
• Environment and Society Literacy
• Information literacy

Place4Us is built around 5 Pillars:

• Environmental and sustainability literacy skills
• Modeling, simulation and visualization
• Storytelling and narrative skills
• Community advocacy skills
• Environmental justice