The next free 1 hr. webinar on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy is in less than 2 weeks: on Thursday, March 25 from 12 noon to 1:00 pm Pacific Time (3:00-4:00 pm Eastern Time--US & Canada)
(Note: this webinar was originally scheduled for March 18).
To Register for the Webinar go to the ITRC Website: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/
Why the Urgent Need for a New Approach to Foster Mental Wellness and Resilience?
The skyrocketing mental health and psychosocial problems generated by the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed the fatal flaws in the approach the U.S. and many other nations use to address psychological, emotional, and behavioral problems. Left unaddressed, the climate emergency will make the existing scale and scope of mental health and psychosocial problems seem trivial.
Climate science indicates that global temperatures will, in the not too distant future, rise above the 2.7-degree F. temperature threshold that unleashes very harmful civilization-changing impacts. From more frequent, extreme, and prolonged wind, rain, and snowstorms, wildfires, hurricanes and other disasters, to cascading disruptions to the ecological, social, and economic system people reply on for food, water, jobs, incomes, health and other basic needs, the impacts are already evident and will continue to grow far worse.
The public in the U.S.--and in every other nation--is unprepared for the coming tsunami of mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems that will result. If we remain so, climate-generated psychological, emotional, spiritual, and behavioral problems will threaten the health, safety, and wellbeing of every child and adult nationally and worldwide. They will also accelerate many physical health problems and drive up the costs of healthcare. And, they will activate a vicious cycle whereby fear-based self-protective emotional reactions will block efforts to slash emissions, which will worsen the climate emergency, and circle back to increase mental health and psychosocial problems.
The New ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy
Developed through extensive research and supported by a team of 20 experts, the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) has developed a new Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy to prevent and heal psychological, emotional, spiritual, and behavioral problems generated by the climate emergency and many other adversities.
The policy calls for multisystemic, community-based, culturally-accountable, population-level initiatives to be launched nationwide and globally to build individual and collective resilience to push back against externally-generated climate traumas and toxic stress pileups.
In specific, the ITRC policy calls for establishing broad and diverse Resilience Coordinating Councils (RCCs) in every community that: a) offers all adults and youth the opportunity to learn simple age and culturally-accountable resilience information and skills; b) builds and connect social support networks across economic and geographic boundaries; c) empowers residents to take responsibility for resilience in their neighborhoods; and d) engages local volunteer, non-profit, private, and public organizations in the adoption of practices and policies that build a local culture of population-level psychological and emotional resilience.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- Why individually-focused clinical therapy and direct service programs are incapable of addressing the scale and scope of the mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the climate emergency, and many other coming social, economic, and ecological disasters, emergencies, and pileups of toxic stresses.
- Why launching community-based, culturally-accountable, population-level mental wellness and resilience initiatives is essential to both prevent and heal the individual and collective traumas.
- The core elements of community-based, culturally-accountable, population-level mental wellness and resilience building initiatives, how to organize them, and the many benefits they provide for individuals, families, communities, and whole societies.
- U.S. federal, state, and local policies needed to foster and sustain community-based population-wide mental wellness and resilience initiatives nationwide.
To Register for the Webinar go to the ITRC Website: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/
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