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Join our UN High Level Climate Champion "Race to Resilience" Initiative to

BUILD MENTAL WELLNESS & TRANSFORMATIONAL RESILIENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY 
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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, without a major shift in how they are addressed, will produce radically more and different types of mental health and psychosocial problems than society has ever experienced.​​

THE CHALLENGE:
THE SOLUTION:

A public health approach must be used in communities to strengthen everyone’s capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for relentless adversities as residents help reduce the C-E-B crisis to manageable levels and enhance local conditions.

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Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRCN) are local multi-sectoral coalitions that develop and implement locally appropriate strategies that help all residents remain socially, psychologically, emotionally, and behaviorally healthy and resilient during persistent adversities.​

READY TO LEARN MORE?

 

Watch part 1 and part 2 of our Community of Practice

  • 2024 Sessions
    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 (February 13, 2024) Organizing and Facilitating a Resilience Coordinating Network (RCN) (February 20, 2024) Approaches to Begin Building Community Capacity for Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience (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 (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 (March 12, 2024) The Third Foundational Focus: Foster Universal Literacy About Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience (March 19, 2024) The Fourth Foundational Focus: Regularly Engage Residents in Specific Practices that Help Support and Sustain Mental Wellness and Transformational Resilience (March 26, 2024) The Fifth Foundational Focus: Establish Ongoing Opportunities for Residents to Heal Their Traumas (April 2, 2024) Common Challenges Experienced by Community-Led Resilience Coordinating Networks and Options for Addressing Them (April 9, 2024) The Importance of Building Positive New Sources of Meaning, Purpose, Courage, and Hope During the Long Climate Emergency—and Next Steps (April 16, 2024)
  • Activities & Resources
    Climate CoP Videos Climate CoP Resource List Climate Resilience Resources Guide: Creating Transformational Resilience Coordinating Coalitions for/by Community (January 2024) Briefing Held on the Community Mental Wellness & Resilience Act (September 2023)
  • 2022 Sessions
    A 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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (12/6/22) The fourth foundational focus: actively engaging residents in specific activities that build and sustain mental wellness and transformational resilience. 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.
  • Contact
    Connect with the Climate CoP through the Resource Innovation Group's contact page.
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