This is a follow-up to--but not the same focus as—the recent virtual Congressional Briefings we held on The Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act
Join us to learn why and how "Community is Medicine" for today's accelerating climate change-generated mental health and psychosocial problems.
Rising global temperatures are increasingly stressing everyone due to cascading disruptions to the ecological, economic, and social systems people rely on for food, water, shelter, jobs, health, and other basic needs. The disruptions are combined with more frequent, extreme, and prolonged emergencies and disasters that are bluntly traumatizing millions of people. The combo of toxic stresses and acute traumas are producing a growing epidemic of mental health and psychosocial problems.
For many reasons our current mental health, human service, and disaster management systems cannot address today's scale and scope of mental health problems--and have no chance of preventing or healing the pervasive social, psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual stresses and traumas speeding our way due to the climate crisis.
In different times, ways, and magnitudes, the toxic stresses and acute traumas will soon threaten everyone's mental health, physical health, safety, security, and wellbeing. In addition, because stressed and traumatized people tend to retreat into a self-protective survival mode, left unaddressed, the traumatic stresses people experience will leave many uninterested in or opposed to policies and practices that can reduce the climate emergency to manageable levels.
An intensive 2+ year research project by the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) found that to prevent and heal widespread accelerating climate and related stresses and traumas we must expand our approach to mental health to emphasize using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience.
Participants in the December 12 webinar will learn:
- How the direct and indirect toxic stresses and blunt traumas generated by the climate emergency are contributing to the epidemic of mental health problems seen across the US and in other nations, and why individualized mental health services cannot address the problems.
- The urgent need, core principles, and many benefits of using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience for the climate crisis--and its related stresses and traumas.
- The five core foundational focuses that are essential to build population mental wellness and transformational resilience in communities for the climate emergency.
- Examples of communities in the US and internationally using this approach and the many benefits they have achieved.
- Why HR 3073/S 1452, the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act that has been introduced in the US Congress, is important to support and fund community-based initiatives.
- Why similar policies are needed at the regional, state, and local levels in the US-- and globally--and how you can help make that a reality.
Please Join Us on December 12 to Learn Why and How "Community is Medicine" for Climate and Other Traumas!
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