This is a follow-up to--but not the same focus as—the recent virtual Congressional Briefings we held on T he 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. To register go to here Rising global temperatures are increasingly stressing everyone due to cascading disruptions to the ecological, economic, and social systems people rely on for food, water,...

Over 1,300 people have registered for Thursday's briefing! They include federal, state, and local elected officials and staff, as well as people from the civic, non-profit, and private sectors from numerous fields from almost every state in the US. Please register for the Zoom meeting here .

With toxic stresses, emergencies, and weather disasters now happening everywhere Community is Medicine ! To register go the ITRC website: https://itrcoalition.org/current-events-and-news/ (Note: the registration links below do not work)

Go to the ITRC website to register for the June 7, 12 noon-1 pm ET, webinar: https://itrcoalition.org/current-events-and-news/ Join us to learn why and how the "Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2023" will expand the US approach to mental health by using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience for stresses & traumas. Accelerating global temperatures are producing cascading disruptions to the ecological, economic, and social...

We believe there is a good chance to have the "Resilience for All Act of 2021" introduced in Congress. The RFA will establish a grant program to fund community-based population-level mental wellness and resilience building initiatives nationwide. It will also establish an office in CDC to support community-based initiatives and oversee the grant program. To show the support for it we have developed the attached letter to Congress calling for it to introduce and enact the RFA. Links to the...

Please join over 50 organizations & 175 professionals that have endorsed the letter. Endorsers range from the American Association of Community Psychiatry, to the Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment, The Prevention Institute, Black Psychiatrists of America, Physicians for Social Responsibility, American Association of Suicidology, and more than 45 other diverse national, regional, and local organizations. Request for Organizational and Individual Endorsements of Letter Below...

*For Mental Health, Human Services, Disaster Management, Climate Change, Faith, and Other Community Leaders, and Elected Officials Click here for a copy of the "Resilience for All Act of 2021" Click here to have your organization sign this letter Click here to personally sign this letter Deadline for signing the letter is September 30, 2021

By Bob Doppelt, The Hill, February 24, 2021 New thinking and new solutions have been required to address the magnitude of the physical health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental health problems have also skyrocketed due to the pandemic, yet the response has been more of the same. The Biden Administration and Congress must quickly alter their thinking and adopt new ways to prevent and heal psychological, emotional, and behavioral problems, or the U.S. will see a tsunami of...

You are invited to a free 1 hr. webinar on Wednesday , December 2 from 12 noon to 1:00 pm PST (3:00-4:00 pm EST) on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy To register for the webinar go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/ Why 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...

In case you missed the first one: I nvitation to Tuesday Sept. 22 free webinar on... The Urgent Need, Methods, and Benefits of Enacting the New ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy for Climate Change--and Other--Adversities You are invited to a free 1 hr. webinar on Tuesday , September 22 from 12:30-1:30 pm PST (3:30-4:30 pm EST) on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy Click here to register for the free webinar or go to the ITRC Website:...

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...

ITRC Seeks Organizational and Individual Endorsements for New Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy! To read the complete policy and make individual or organizational endorsements go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/ Why the Need to Enact a Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy ? The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) seeks organizational and individual endorsements for its new Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience...

Rising temperatures caused by global heating are likely to increase deaths from road crashes, violence, suicides and drowning, according to new research, and will affect young people most. Deaths from injuries have long been known to be seasonal, and the new analysis uses data on nearly 6 million deaths in the US to calculate the impacts of a 2C rise in temperature. People tend to go outside more and drink more alcohol on hotter days, while higher temperatures are known to increase rates of...

Ecoanxiety. Ecoparalysis. Solastalgia. Call it what you want— when it comes to climate change and mental health, the future is now. By Lawrence A. Palinkas , the Daily Climate Hardly a day goes by where we aren't reminded that the Earth's climate is changing and that we are responsible for much if not most of that change. The findings of one study after another are punctuated by breaking news or the direct experience of wildfires, hurricanes and floods that forced thousands of people to...

ITRC issues Call to Action for all mental health, public health, education, social justice, climate, and other leaders to rapidly build psychological and psycho-social-spiritual-- or transformational--resilience to prevent widespread climate traumas WE ASK ALL ACEs CONNECTION MEMBERS TO ENDORSE THE ITRC CALL TO ACTION! Attached is the complete Call to Action to Build Human Resilience for Climate Traumas or find it at the ITRC website: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/ Individuals...

Sneak Preview for ITRC ACEs Connection Members! Next Tuesday, Jan. 8, the ITRC will release a major report Preparing People on the West Coast for Climate Change. The media release about the report is below (and attached). It includes a link to the webpage for the report, where people can download the full report, and find a link to the webpage with examples of resilience programs across the west coast. You can connect with the ITRC CA and PNW Facebook page:...

Every spring and fall the ITRC offers a series of free 1-hr webinars on different aspects of building Transformational Resilience for climate change. The list of free September 2018 webinars, dates, and times is below. For more details about each of the webinars click here . Introduction to Transformational Resilience for Climate Change When : Thursday September 6 , from 12 noon--1 pm Pacific Time A major ecological--turned mental health--turned social--turned humanitarian crisis is underway...

Applications Now Open for Nov 15-16 Transformational Resilience Intensive Train-the-Trainer Workshop The ITRC is offering a Train-the-Trainer Workshop on Transformational Resilience for climate change aggravated traumas and toxic stresses workshop. The workshop will be held November 15-16 in San Francisco. This will be an intensive 2-day training offered in cooperation with the SEI Resilient Community Fellows Program. It is open to a maximum of 20 people who want to learn how to apply...

The early-bird rate closes in just three weeks for PNW conference on building human resilience for climate traumas. To see the PNW conference agenda, list of speakers and co-sponsors, and to register go to: http://www.theresourceinnovati ongroup.org/pnw-2017-conferenc e/