On Wednesday, April 12 // 9-10am PDT, join Steven Hoskinson and Bob Doppelt, Founder and Coordinator for the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC), for a live discussion on using a public health approach to build population mental wellness and resilience to prevent and heal climate change distresses & traumas.
In this webinar, Bob Doppelt will describe the urgent need, methods, and multiple benefits of using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience to prevent and heal climate change-generated individual, community, and societal traumas.
The information presented is the result of an intensive 2+ year international research project that is described in ITRC Coordinator Bob Doppelt’s new book Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide to Building Resilience and Hope in Communities (Routledge Publishing).
During the presentation Bob will also describe how the “Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2023” that has been introduced in Congress would fund and support the community initiatives.
Participants will learn:
- How the relentless toxic stresses and disasters generated by the climate crisis are producing widespread individual, community, and societal traumas, left unaddressed, will undermine individual and collective mental health, physical health, safety, and wellbeing, and also block solutions to the climate emergency.
- The results of the ITRC’s extensive 2+ year research project that determined that, to prevent and heal widespread climate traumas, a public health approach is needed in communities to build population (or universal) mental wellness and resilience.
- The core principles, processes, and 5 foundational elements involved with using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience for the climate crisis.
- Examples of communities using this approach and the many benefits they have achieved.
- The key roles different professionals can play in community mental wellness and resilience building initiatives.
- How the “Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act” that has been introduced in Congress would fund and support communities nationwide that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and resilience.
This is a free event hosted by Organic Intelligence®