Watch: How Communities Can Work Together to Build Strength During Climate and Mental Health Challenges

When communities face problems from climate change, damage to natural areas, and loss of plants and animals, people's mental health can suffer. These problems can cause stress, fear, grief, and other difficult feelings.

Community-led Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRCNs) offer a way to help. These networks bring people and communities together to prevent and heal mental health problems caused by climate and environmental challenges.

Watch a recent TRCN meeting that focused on:

• Overview of "climate overshoot" and the resulting individual, community, and societal mental health and psychosocial stresses and traumas.

• How to use the “social-ecological’ model and a public health approach to understand, prevent, and heal individual, community, and societal traumas, and how this differs from the individualized biomedical model clinical approach to mental health.

• The key principles and practices involved with a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience in communities

• Steps in organizing and facilitating a TRCN

• Download presentation slides

• Explore the Ladder of Engagement