Just 2 Weeks Until the Free Webinar on the Urgency, Methods, and Benefits of the New ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy

Reminder of a free 1 hr. webinar on Wednesday, December 2from 12 noon to 1:00 pm PST (3:00-4:00 pm EST) on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy for Climate Traumas and Many Other Adversities

Go to the ITRC website to register for the Dec 2 webinar:  http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/

Why the Need for a New Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy?

        The Covid-19 pandemic, job and income losses, racial and ethnic violence, and many other adversities are generating widespread psychological distress in the U.S. and globally. The more frequent and extreme disasters and toxic stresses resulting from the climate emergency greatly adds to the distress.

         Left unaddressed, a growing tsunami of individual and collective traumas will threaten the health, safety, and wellbeing of every adult and child nationally and worldwide. The unrelieved stress will also accelerate many physical health problems. And, the traumas will activate a vicious cycle whereby self-protective emotional reactions block efforts to slash emissions and restore the environment, which will worsen the climate emergency, and circle back to accelerate mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems.

The New ITRC Climate Change 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 Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy to prevent and heal climate-generated psychological, emotional, spiritual, and behavioral problems. The policy calls for community-based, multisystemic, 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 local broad-based Resilience Coordinating Councils (RCCs) that: a) offer all adults and youth the opportunity to learn simple age and culturally appropriate mental wellness and resilience information and skills; b) enhance personal, family, and community strengths; d) build and connect social support networks across economic and geographic boundaries; and e) engage local volunteer, non-profit, private, and public organizations in the adoption of principles, practices, and policies that build a local cultural of psychological and emotional resilience.

What you will learn during the webinar:

• Why disaster mental health and post-trauma clinical treatments and direct service programs are incapable of preventing or healing the accelerating individual and collective traumas generated by the climate emergency and other traumatic stressors, and why major prevention initiatives must be launched in the U.S. and worldwide.

• Why launching community-based population-level mental wellness and resilience initiatives is essential to prevent and heal the individual and collective traumas generated by the Covid-19 Pandemic, economic distress, the climate emergency, and many other social, economic, and ecological adversities as well.

• The core elements of community-based population-level mental wellness and resilience initiatives, how to organize them, and the many benefits they provide for individuals, children, families, non-profits, businesses, and the public sector nationwide.

• U.S. federal, state, and local policies needed to foster and sustain community-based population-level mental wellness and resilience initiatives nationwide.