With the wide range of socio-economic-environmental impacts climate change will bring, community adaptation is essential. Many communities already employ strategies to manage the impacts of change. The importance of including local perspectives in the design and implementation of adaptation measures is becoming widely recognized (Tschakert 2007, Paavola and Adger 2006). This paper examines one such strategy, Family Camp at the Shoal Lake Cree Nation, and identifies ways that this strategy increases the community’s capacity to cope with change.