The first phase of AICBR’s project included a large gathering in January 2009 where the youth actively participated with the community in various climate change workshops with International Polar Year researchers to learn about environmental changes in the Old Crow area. At this meeting, Elders shared valuable traditional knowledge with the youth, and many people shared thoughtful wisdom and advice with them as well. From this gathering, there was a strong recommendation from the youth and the rest of the community that the research continue, and so AICBR developed a proposal for Health Canada and received funding to do Phase II. 

This research focused on learning what food security adaptation strategies the community has been doing and could do in the future to help cope with climate change. This phase involved training youth to develop their researching skills; and three youth interviewed over 30 members of their community. In addition, four youth were trained in film and they developed their own trailers about food security in their community. 

Following a community-based research framework, the research for the third phase of the project (2010-2011) focused on assisting and facilitating the community in determining how Old Crow could implement their recommendations from Phase II (2009-2010) and put them into action in order to address food security issues.