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Communities to Help Shape a Climate-Grief Guide

Researchers planned a resource about distress linked to environmental loss.

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In this lesson: Find the planned collaborators and distinguish a developing resource from a finished one.

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Read and understand · 1/2Whose involvement was planned in shaping the toolkit?

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Communities and mental-health representatives. The planned collaboration included communities and mental-health representatives.

Clue: Researchers planned to work with communities and mental-health groups on a practical toolkit. Their focus included loss of valued landscapes and cultural places.

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Work on the toolkit was continuing.. The form describes work in progress, not completion.

Clue: The researchers wanted the toolkit to reflect people’s experiences. WHO has also called for community-based mental-health support in climate responses. The proposed toolkit was still being developed.

Grammar in this story: Was still being developed

The proposed toolkit was still being developed.

“Was being” plus a past participle describes an ongoing action in the past. Example: “The library was still being built.”

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Who would help the researchers design the guide? Why might their experience be useful?

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Communities would help design it. Their experiences could show what kind of support people need.

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