LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER
For Next Tuesday's Sept. 13 Webinar on the Need To Use a Public Health Approach in Communities to Build Population Mental Wellness & Resilience for the Climate Crisis
The Webinar will Describe the ITRC Community of Practice (CoP) that Begins in October on How to Organize and Operate Public Mental Health Initiatives in Communities.
Click here to apply to attend the 2022 ITRC Community of Practice that begins in mid-October.
The Climate Crisis Requires New Approaches to Enhance and Sustain
Mental Wellness & Resilience
Few people grasp this yet, but humanity is in the midst of a civilization-altering event. Accelerating global temperatures are producing cascading disruptions to the ecological, economic, and social systems people rely on for basic needs, mixed with more frequent, extreme, and prolonged disasters. Society is unprepared for the suffering speeding our way. If we remain so, the result will be individual, community, and societal traumas far beyond anything modern society has ever experienced. The traumas will threaten everyone's mental and physical health, safety, and security. They will also make it even more difficult to reduce the climate crisis to manageable levels.
A public health approach to enhancing population-level mental wellness and resilience is needed to respond to the coming challenges.
This involves organizing wide and diverse coalitions of local residents, groups, and organizations in communities that jointly plan, implement, and continually improve culturally accountable strategies that help all adults and youth enhance their capacity for mental wellness and resilience during persistent adversities. Actions to slash local greenhouse gas emissions, regenerate ecological systems, and adapt to climate impacts should be integrated into the community initiatives.
If whole-community initiatives are launched throughout industrial nations, the indomitable human capacity for mental wellness and resilience can be activated, the climate climate crisis can, over time, be reduced to manageable levels, and people will regain healthy hope in the future.
The ITRC Community of Practice
The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) is launching a Community of Practice (CoP) this fall to educate, connect, and empower people to organize and operate community-based initiatives that use a public health approach to enhance the entire population's capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for the climate crisis.
The ITRC CoP will begin on Tuesday October 18 and meet weekly for 8 weeks on Tuesdays for two hours.
There will be no cost to participate in the CoP, but participation requires pre-approval.
You can apply to attend the CoP by completing a short online questionnaire (see link above).
To be approved you will need to describe the role you can play in your community. You will also need to agree to actively apply what you learn in the CoP to help an existing community initiative expand its focus, or organize a new initiative, focused on building population-level capacity for mental wellness and resilience in their community for the climate emergency.
Those interested will be able to obtain CE credits through the American Public Health Association for sessions they attend in person.
Next week's Tuesday Sept. 13 webinar will describe the urgent need to use a public health approach in communities to build population-level mental wellness and resilience for the climate crisis.
It will also describe the goals and methods of the
ITRC Community of Practice.
Go to the links above to register for the Sept. 13 webinar,
and/or apply to attend the Community of Practice.
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