“Race to Resilience” Initiative Organizing Community-Led Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks in North America and Worldwide From record heat waves, storms, wildfires, droughts, floods, and other disasters, to increasing disruptions to the ecological, social, and economic systems people rely on for food, water, shelter, jobs, incomes, health, and other basic needs, the global climate-ecosystem-biodiversity (C-E-B) crisis is rapidly escalating. The crisis is an unprecedented public health emergency that will produce radically more and different types of mental health and psychosocial problems than society has ever experienced. Individualized mental health services cannot address the pervasive stresses and traumas speeding our way. Instead, a public health approach must be used in neighborhoods and communities to provide the mutual aid needed to strengthen everyone’s capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for relentless adversities as residents do their part to reduce the C-E-B crisis to manageable levels and greatly enhance local conditions. • WEBINAR: More on the United Nations High Level Climate Champion Race to Resilience Campaign(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3LiR9hHHpc) • BACKGROUND: What's involved with forming, operating, and commissioning TRCNs? More information for potential Race to Resilience participants (https://82c52c1d-5714-4985-a563-676a79dcf952.usrfiles.com/ugd/82c52c_8d64acb3bfa54265a01aa7416b0c577e.pdf)(WEBINAR)(https://www.ctipp.org/post/launch-transformational-resilience-coordinating-network-commissioning-program) A TRCN is a wide and diverse coalition of local grassroots, neighborhood, education, youth, faith/ spirituality, mental and physical health, social work, disaster management, climate/environmental, social and environmental justice, and other civic, non-profit, private, and public sector leaders. From the bottom-up, the TRCN develops and implements locally-appropriate strategies that help all adults, adolescents, and young children remain socially, psychologically, emotionally, and behaviorally healthy and resilient during continual adversities, as they also engage in activities that help reduce the C-E-B crisis to manageable levels and enhance local conditions. The TRCN Commissioning initiative will help community leaders in North America and worldwide learn how to organize a TRCN, facilitate and strengthen its operations, and develop and continually improve strategies that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience. The three phases involved with organizing and operating TRCNs include: • When local residents want to form a new network, or an existing group or coalition informs us that they want to expand their focus and organize a TRCN, we will declare them a “Prospective” TRCN. We will provide these networks with written materials and technical assistance and invite them to participate in in a Community of Practice (CoP),(https://www.ctipp.org/climate-community-of-practice) to help them learn how organize a steering committee (board or task force) with a clear mission, vision, and goals. • When a wide and diverse steering committee is formed with a mission, vision, and goals we will invite Prospective networks to become an “Emerging” TRCN. We will provide these networks with written materials and technical assistance, and invite them to participate in a CoP,(https://www.ctipp.org/climate-community-of-practice) to help them learn how to design strategies that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience for the C-E-B crisis. • When an Emerging network has finalized and wants to begin implementing their strategies, we will invite them to become a “Commissioned” TRCN. We will provide these networks with ongoing technical assistance, continual public recognition, a logo they can use to show that they are a Commissioned TRCN and provide other supports to help them improve and strengthen their efforts. In each of the phases described above, we will coordinate a “network of networks” to connect mature networks with newer ones to serve as peer mentors and help everyone learn, innovate, overcome barriers, and develop leading-edge practices.

Welcome and thank you for your interest! Our process helps community leaders around the globe organize a Transformational Resilience Coordinating Network (TRCN) to help facilitate and strengthen its operations and develop and continually improve strategies that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience. • BACKGROUND: What's involved with forming, operating, and commissioning TRCNs? More information for potential Race to Resilience participants (https://82c52c1d-5714-4985-a563-676a79dcf952.usrfiles.com/ugd/82c52c_8d64acb3bfa54265a01aa7416b0c577e.pdf)(WEBINAR)(https://www.ctipp.org/post/launch-transformational-resilience-coordinating-network-commissioning-program) The three phases involved with organizing and operating TRCNs include: PHASE 1: PROSPECTIVE (Start/build your network) Audience: Local residents who want to form a new network OR an existing organization/coalition who wants to expand their focus to include climate-ecosystem-biodiversity (C-E-B). Resources provided: Written materials and technical assistance to help them learn • HANDBOOK(https://www.ctipp.org/post/handbook-prospective-transformation-resilience-coordinating-networks) • Members-only online group(https://www.ctipp.org/group/prospective-trcns/) • How to organize an initial small group (3-5 people) who together develop a preliminary vision of what they want to achieve and the benefits it will provide for the community, along with a simple elevator speech to describe their vision and goals to others. • How can the initial small group identify, reach out to, and engage other residents and organizations in a formal TRCN steering committee? • How the steering committee can develop a mission statement, goals, and operating principles, and learn and practice good communications and conflict resolution skills. • The core principles and practices of using a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience for the C-E-B crisis. When a wide and diverse steering committee is formed with a mission, vision, and goals we will invite prospective networks to become “emerging” TRCNs. PHASE 2: EMERGING (Develop local strategy) Audience: Existing network who wants to integrate this process into their mission and operations OR prospective groups that have formed a steering committee with mission, vision, and goals. Resources provided: HANDBOOK,(https://www.ctipp.org/post/handbook-emerging-transformation-resilience-coordinating-networks) members-only online group,(https://www.ctipp.org/group/emerging-trcns/) written materials, technical assistance and access to participate in a Climate Community of Practice (CoP) (https://www.ctipp.org/climate-community-of-practice)to learn how to design strategies that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience. PHASE 3: COMMISSIONED (Implementation) Audience: When an emerging network has finalized their action plan and is ready to begin strategic implementation, we will invite them to become a "commissioned" TRCN. You can also apply here.(https://forms.gle/TszwzhoRyRD3nGzi8) Resources provide: HANDBOOK,(https://www.ctipp.org/post/handbook-commissioning-transformation-resilience-coordinating-networks) members-only online group,(https://www.ctipp.org/group/commissioned-trcns/) ongoing technical assistance, continual public recognition, a logo they can use to show that they are a Commissioned TRCN, and other support to help them improve and strengthen their efforts.

Introduction to Transformational Resilience for Climate Traumas, Toxic Stresses and other Emergencies (http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/storage/Introduction%20to%20Transformational%20Resilience%204-30-20.pdf) • What's involved with forming, operating, and commissioning TRCNs? More information for potential Race to Resilience participants (https://82c52c1d-5714-4985-a563-676a79dcf952.usrfiles.com/ugd/82c52c_8d64acb3bfa54265a01aa7416b0c577e.pdf)(WEBINAR)(https://www.ctipp.org/post/launch-transformational-resilience-coordinating-network-commissioning-program) Five Foundational Protective Factors for Building Universal Mental Wellness & Transformational Resilience (https://www.ctipp.org/post/five-foundational-protective-factors-for-transformational-resilience) Prospective TRCN Handbook(https://www.ctipp.org/post/handbook-prospective-transformation-resilience-coordinating-networks) • Prospective TRCN Discussion Group (members only) (https://www.ctipp.org/group/prospective-trcns) Emerging TRCN Handbook(https://www.ctipp.org/post/handbook-emerging-transformation-resilience-coordinating-networks) • Emerging TRCN Discussion Group (members only) (https://www.ctipp.org/group/emerging-trcns) Commissioned TRCN Handbook(https://www.ctipp.org/post/handbook-commissioning-transformation-resilience-coordinating-networks) • Commissioned TRCN Discussion Group (members only)(https://www.ctipp.org/group/commissioned-trcns) The Resilient Growth Model™ for Building Transformational Resilience for Climate Traumas, Toxic Stresses, and Other Emergencies(http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/storage/The%20Resilient%20Growth%20Model%20For%20Building%20Transformational%20Resilience%205-7-2000.pdf) Building a Culture of Transformational Resilience Within Communities for Climate Traumas, Toxic Stresses, and Other Emergencies(http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/storage/Building%20a%20Culture%20of%20TR%20in%20Orgs%20%20Communities%205-14-2000.pdf) Building Human Resilience for Climate Change (http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/building-human-resilience) Confronting our Costly Mental Health Epidemic: Community-Led Prevention is Key to Cutting Expenses & Building Wellness (https://www.ctipp.org/post/confronting-our-costly-mental-health-epidemic-community-led-prevention-is-key-to-cutting-expenses) Resilient Oregon: Resilience Toolkit & Resource Guide 2025(https://www.ctipp.org/post/new-oregon-toolkit-offers-community-led-climate-resilience-strategies) WEBINARS: • Watch: How Communities Can Work Together to Build Strength During Climate and Mental Health Challenges (https://www.ctipp.org/post/watch-how-communities-can-work-together-to-build-strength-during-climate-and-mental-health-challeng)(April 2025) • Building Resilient Communities: Lessons from Pioneering Trauma-Informed Network Leaders (https://www.ctipp.org/post/building-resilient-communities-lessons-from-pioneering-trauma-informed-network-leaders)(March 2025) • Bob Doppelt's Transformational Resilience: Presencing and Purposing (https://youtu.be/BBQ0CGtQNRs)skill presentation for Los Angeles wildfire survivors and service providers (February 2025) • TRCN Community of Practice: Session 1 (https://www.ctipp.org/post/trcn-community-of-practice-session-1)and Session 2 (https://www.ctipp.org/post/trcn-community-of-practice-session-2)(October 2024) • Transformational Resilience Coordinating Network Commissioning Program Launch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PEFvChaNZ0)(October 2024) • ITRC’s initiative connected to the United Nations High Level Climate Champion Race to Resilience Campaign (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3LiR9hHHpc)(June 2024) BOOKS: • Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities (https://www.amazon.com/Preventing-Healing-Climate-Traumas-Communities-ebook/dp/B0BTTVT6ZF?ref_=ast_author_mpb)by Bob Doppelt • Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience to Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing (https://www.amazon.com/Transformational-Resilience-Disruption-Safeguard-Wellbeing/dp/1783535288)by Bob Doppelt REPORTS: • Preliminary Findings of Terms Best Describing the ITRC’s Mission of Building Community-led Mental Wellness and Resilience for the Climate Crisis (https://e77fa3f0-bfbe-4e2d-bbc8-c59b593bacb3.filesusr.com/ugd/82c52c_8719074292b34b5b92b9643fce57af93.pdf) • People on the West Coast Must Be Prepared for the Rising Psychological and Psychosocial Impacts of Climate Change(https://itrcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/79/2022/12/Preparing-People-on-the-West-Coast-for-Climate-Change-Recommenations-from-ITRC-Assessment-for-CA-and-the-PNW-Final-1-8-19.pdf) • Recommendations for Preventing and Healing Pandemic-Generated Mental Health and Psychosocial Problems(https://itrcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/79/2022/12/The-Urgent-Need-and-Recommendations-for-Rapidly-Organizing-Community-Based-Initiatives-to-Prevent-and-Health-Pandemic-Mental-Health-and-Psychosocial-Problems-3-22-2000.pdf)

U.S. House Bill(https://www.ctipp.org/post/trcn-policy-work-community-mental-wellness-and-resilience-act) U.S. Senate Bill(https://www.ctipp.org/post/trcn-policy-work-community-mental-wellness-and-resilience-act) U.S. Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act one-pager(https://www.ctipp.org/post/trcn-policy-work-community-mental-wellness-and-resilience-act) About the U.S. Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act(https://www.ctipp.org/post/trcn-policy-work-community-mental-wellness-and-resilience-act) The Need, Methods, and Examples of Communities Using a Public Health (https://www.ctipp.org/post/trcn-policy-work-community-mental-wellness-and-resilience-act) Approach to Build Pop. Mental Wellness and Resilience(https://www.ctipp.org/post/trcn-policy-work-community-mental-wellness-and-resilience-act) Examples of U.S. Based Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Building Initiatives(https://www.ctipp.org/post/trcn-policy-work-community-mental-wellness-and-resilience-act) Model Legislative Language for Use in Writing National, State, or Local Policies that Support and Fund Community-led Mental Wellness and Resilience building initiatives(https://www.ctipp.org/post/trcn-policy-work-community-mental-wellness-and-resilience-act)

To Cut Government Costs, Address Mental Illness (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/community-is-medicine/202501/to-cut-government-costs-address-mental-illness)in Psychology Today (January 2025) Many Americans Are Dissociated from the Climate Crisis (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/community-is-medicine/202412/many-americans-are-dissociated-from-the-climate-crisis)in Psychology Today (December 2024) Is Unconstrained Freedom Harming Mental Health? (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/community-is-medicine/202411/is-unconstrained-freedom-harming-mental-health)in Psychology Today (December 2024) Hurricane Helene Shows Need to Establish Resilience Networks in Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/community-is-medicine/202410/hurricane-helene-shows-need-to-establish-resilience-networks)(October 2024) Community is Medicine (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/community-is-medicine/202401/communities-are-medicine)in Psychology Today (January 2024) Prevention is the Cure: Public Health & Climate Crisis Webinar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfr_m5x0UyI)on Organic Wisdom (August 2023) The bipartisan bill that could heal the mental health effects of climate change (https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4025419-the-bipartisan-bill-that-could-heal-the-mental-health-effects-of-climate-change/)in The Hill (May 2023) Why Journalists Should Investigate the Twin Mental Health and Climate Crises (https://www.sej.org/publications/features/why-journalists-should-investigate-twin-mental-health-and-climate-crises)for the Society of Environmental Journalists (April 2023) Climate Emergency Requires Fundamental Expansion of Our Approach to Mental Health (https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2021.8.34)in Psychiatry Online (June 2021) The Climate Emergency Calls for a New Approach to Mental Health (https://undark.org/2021/06/24/climate-emergency-calls-for-new-approach-to-mental-health/)in Undark (June 2021) The Importance of Building Resilience for the Climate Emergency (https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/130780/the-importance-of-building-resilience-for-the-climate-emergency)on Voice of America (April 2021) Pandemic and climate solutions will fail without a major focus on mental health (https://thehill.com/changing-america/opinion/540152-pandemic-and-climate-solutions-will-fail-without-a-major-focus-on/)in The Hill (February 2021)

(As of Sept. 1, 2024) • Beth Haase, Chair, Climate Committee, American Psychiatric Association, and Craig Obey, Chief of Government Relations • Scott Barstow, Senior Director of Congressional Affairs, American Psychological Association • Corbin Evans Senior Director of Congressional Affairs, American Psychological Association • Sarah Butts, Director of Public Policy, National Association of Social Workers • Cara Cook, Director or Programs, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, and Jessica Mengistab, Program Manager, Climate and Clean Energy Advocacy • Katherine Catalano, Deputy Director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity, American Public Health Association. • Kristie Trousdale, Deputy Director, Children’s Environmental Health Network. • Jesse Kohler, Executive Director, Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy • Mebane Boyd, Resilient Communities Officer, North Carolina SmartStart Program • Lise Van Susteren, Psychiatrist, Clinical Associate Professor, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and member of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance • Elaine Miller-Karas, Co-Founder and Director of Innovation, Trauma Resource Institute • Ruben Cantu, Associate Program Director for Community Trauma, Mental Health, and Violence Prevention, Prevention Institute. • Rev. Paul Abernathy, CEO of the Neighborhood Resilience Project in Pittsburgh, PA • David Shern, Senior Associate, Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University, and Advisor, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors • Rebeckah Turner, Director of Community Engagement, Community Resilience Initiative • Howard Kurtzman, former Director for Science at the American Psychological Association • Mandy Davis, Director, Trauma-Informed Oregon • Robin Saenger, Founding Director Peace4Tarpon (Tarpon Springs, Florida) • Brigit Hassig, Executive Director, Visible Hands Collaborative • Steven Hoskinson, Founder and COO of Organic Intelligence • David Pollack, Professor Emeritus for Public Policy, Oregon Health and Science University Advisory Committee • Anna Lynn, Mental Health Promotion Coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Health • Deborah Golding, Health Equity Zone Program Administrator, Rhode Island Department of Health • Carrisa Caban-Aleman, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida, and member of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance • Sandra Bloom, Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Founder of Creating Presence, and Co-Founder of the Sanctuary Model • Patricia Foxen, former Deputy Director, Research at UnidosUS

• Urgency, Core Principles, and Benefits of Organizing Community-led Initiatives that Use a Public Health Approach to Build Population Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience for the Climate Emergency ((https://youtu.be/-9v61UEyrKw?si=PuZ6pSqjgBsKGaBl)February 13, 2024) • Organizing and Facilitating a Resilience Coordinating Network (RCN) (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-2024-session-2-resilience-coordinating-networks)(February 20, 2024) • Approaches to Begin Building Community Capacity for Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-2024-session-3-building-community-capacity)(February 27, 2024) • The First Foundational Focus of Building Population Mental Wellness and Resilience for the Climate Emergency: Build Social Connections Across Cultural, Racial, Economic, Geographic, and Organizational Boundaries in the Community (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-2024-session-4-build-social-connections-across-boundaries-in-the-community)(March 5, 2024) • The Second Foundational Focus: Ensure a “Just Transition” by Building Healthy, Just, Equitable, Zero-Emission & Climate-Resilient Regenerative Built, Economic, and Ecological Conditions (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-2024-session-5-ensure-a-just-transition)(March 12, 2024) • The Third Foundational Focus: Foster Universal Literacy About Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-2024-session-6-foster-literacy-about-mental-wellness)(March 19, 2024) • The Fourth Foundational Focus: Regularly Engage Residents in Specific Practices that Help Support and Sustain Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-2024-session-7-engage-residents)(March 26, 2024) • The Fifth Foundational Focus: Establish Ongoing Opportunities for Residents to Heal Their Traumas (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-2024-session-8-healing-opportunities)(April 2, 2024) • Common Challenges Experienced by Community-Led Resilience Coordinating Networks and Options for Addressing Them (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-2024-session-9-common-challenges)(April 9, 2024) • The Importance of Building Positive New Sources of Meaning, Purpose, Courage, and Hope During the Long Climate Emergency—and Next Steps (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-2024-session-10-lessons-learned-next-steps)(April 16, 2024)

A Public Health Approach to Build Resilience (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-session-notes-public-health-approach-to-build-resilience)(10/18/22) Community-based initiatives that strengthen the capacity for mental wellness and resilience are urgently needed for the climate emergency, the rise of trauma as an epidemic, and the potential for a public health approach to address these concerns. Resilience Coordination Coalitions (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-session-notes-resilience-coordination)(10/25/22) How to organize and operate Resilience Coordinating Coalitions (RCCs) — community-based coalitions that strengthen the capacity for wellness and resilience. Community Healing and Strengthening Resilience (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-session-notes-community-healing-and-strengthening-resilience)(11/1/22) How to engage residents in practices that begin healing trauma and by teaching these skills to others. Mapping & Healing Trauma in Community (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-session-notes-mapping-and-healing-trauma-in-community)(11/8/22) One way to start is by helping residents heal the traumas they experienced and/or start by helping residents understand systems effects to map out the cycles of trauma in their community and existing assets that aid the healing process. A Just Transition (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-session-notes-just-transition)(11/15/22) The second foundational focus: Ensuring a just transition by engaging residents in creating supportive climate resilient physical/built, economic, and ecological conditions. Developing Universal Literacy About Mental Wellness & Resilience (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-session-notes-developing-universal-literacy-about-mental-wellness-resilience)(11/29/22) The third foundational area that is necessary for building population-level capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for the climate emergency: Developing universal literacy about mental wellness and resilience. Build & Sustain Mental Wellness & Resilience (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-session-notes-build-sustain-mental-wellness-resilience)(12/6/22) The fourth foundational focus: actively engaging residents in specific activities that build and sustain mental wellness and transformational resilience. Ongoing Opportunities (https://www.ctipp.org/post/climate-cop-session-notes-ongoing-opportunities)(12/13/22) The fifth foundational focus: establishing ongoing opportunities for residents to heal their trauma and how the cohort could move into action and the next steps.