You are invited to join a free 1 hr. webinar on Tuesday, July 28 from 12:30-1:30 pm Pacific Time (3:30-4:30 pm ET) on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy
Click here to register for the free webinar
What is the Need for a New Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy?Climate science indicates that global temperatures will, in the not too distant future, rise above the 2.7-degree F. temperature threshold that unleashes civilization-changing impacts. The U.S. is unprepared for the coming tsunami of mental health and psychosocial problems that will result. If we remain so, climate-generated psychological, emotional, and behavioral problems will threaten the health, safety, and wellbeing of every child and adult nationwide. They will also accelerate many physical health problems. And, they will activate a vicious cycle of self-protective emotional reactions blocking efforts to slash emissions, which will diminish efforts to reduce the climate emergency to manageable levels, which will increase psychosocial problems.
Focus of the New ITRC Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy
Supported by a team of 20 experts, the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) has developed a new Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy to prevent and heal climate-generated psychological, emotional, and behavioral problems. The policy calls for community-based population-wide initiatives to be launched nationwide to teach all adults and youth mental wellness and resilience information and skills, enhance personal, family, and community strengths, and construct healthy cultural norms that build personal and collective resilience that works against externally-generated climate traumas and toxic stresses.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- Why launching community-based population-wide mental wellness and resilience initiatives nationwide is essential to successfully combat the climate emergency--and many other social, economic, and ecological challenges such as the Coivid-19 pandemic.
- The core elements of community-based population-wide mental wellness and resilience initiatives, how to organize them, and the many benefits they provide for individuals, children, families, businesses, non-profits, and the public sector nationwide.
- Federal, state, and local policies needed to foster and sustain community-based population-wide mental wellness and resilience initiatives nationwide.
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