Why We Exist
The scale, depth, and reach of the climate crisis is unlike any other that humanity has ever faced. It is driving mortality, collective trauma, and social fragmentation, causing spikes in anxiety, depression, substance misuse, and suicide. As ecological and psychological disruption intensify and converge, climate-impacted communities require equitable, participatory, and culturally-sensitive approaches for life-saving response strategies.
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Unfortunately, the field of climate psychology and mental health is emergent, siloed, and drastically under-resourced, preventing effective care from reaching millions.
In response, we built the Climate Care Collaborative—a coalition of U.S.-based and internationally-recognized organizations and leaders in climate, mental health, social justice, academia, and communications who are dedicated to expanding, coalescing, and strengthening the field of climate-mental health. Together, we are working to magnify existing projects, grow philanthropic awareness, and redirect resources toward initiatives that ensure equitable care reaches the climate-impacted communities who need it.
Our Initiatives
Field-Building
Professional Support
The 2026 American Climate-Mental Health Summit is a first-of-its-kind convening in a series of field-building initiatives that will establish professional norms, sector practices and metrics, knowledge-sharing agreements, problem-solving strategies, trainings, and robust public and political support to help communities develop resilience strategies that respond to acute and chronic climate impacts.
Community Engagement
Climate-Mental Health Advocacy
We actively engage with frontline communities to raise awareness about the psychological impacts of climate change and mobilize support for systems change. Our advocacy strategy aims to educate the public and decision-makers about escalating climate-related mental health demands and champion policy reform that incorporates wellbeing and resiliency strategies into climate response plans.
Educational Resources
Knowledge Sharing
The Unthinkable Resource Hub is the largest digital library of climate-mental health resources, supporting individual learning and growth through education, resources and evidence-informed tools that help people understand their feelings, alleviate climate distress, explore meaningful action, and cultivate community resilience by connecting with others.
Collaborative Partnerships
Strategic Alliances
We foster collaborative partnerships with value-aligned organizations, foundations, and individuals that are dedicated to advancing climate resiliency, wellbeing, and reducing historical burdens on marginalized communities. By joining forces, we amplify our impact, build systems for mutual support and cooperation, and grow our capacity to sustainably work toward our shared strategic vision of a just, joyful, and livable future for all.
Get to Know Our Collaborators
Each organization within the Climate Care Collaborative brings a unique perspective and expertise to the coalition, informed by their distinct missions and the diverse communities they serve.
The Adaptive Mind Project helps climate professionals build the skills and capacities to take care of themselves and each other through the polycrisis. We offer a range of trainings on topics such as trauma, burnout, transformation, communication and collaboration, as well as a year-long, immersive learning journey that allows participants to restore to wholeness, process climate emotions, skillfully meet trauma, and find support and skills for the liberating and soulful work of inner and outer transformation.
Climate Critical® is a community for creative practices of strategic space making and radical care. It is available for every one of us working for climate survival. Connect with us as we cultivate our humanity as our primary response to the evolution of environmental work, for the generations by the generations.
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Climate Junction is a unique collection of information and
thinking about climate and mental health providing a
foundation for a vision for change, featuring three distinct yet related projects: Ecopsychepdia: an open-access encyclopedia
providing concise, reliable articles on topics intersecting the climate crisis and mental health; Climate and Your Mind: a storytelling project featuring climate-mental health chapters authored by world-renowned experts; and Gen Climate Speaks: a podcast for youth, by youth, featuring cutting-edge conversations about the climate crisis.
The Climate Mental Health Network is a collective of dedicated community advocates focused on fostering mental well-being by reshaping our national dialogue—and actions—about the emotional impacts of climate change.
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CPA is a grassroots collaboration of psychiatrists and other mental health
professionals joining together to create a collective voice to address the public health and mental health threats of climate crisis. We bring the unique perspective from our psychiatric and medical background to understanding the biological, physical, mental, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional impacts of climate change on individuals and communities. We aim to nimbly and creatively advocate for
change—educating and motivating others to act to protect health and build
a healthy world.
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CPA-NA is an organization of mental health workers dedicated to building resilience and equity for a live(a)ble and sustainable future. We offer a unique Climate Aware Practitioner directory, education and clinical support for climate aware mental health workers, public climate cafes and innovative burn out and direct support for climate professionals and communities on the front line of the climate crisis.
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DearTomorrow is a global public engagement project that invites people to write a climate letter to someone they love living in 2050. Our process enables and inspires personal reflection and commitments to act. We run future imagining workshops, communications trainings, and immersive experiences for individuals and communities to deepen engagement, strengthen resilience, and imagine a thriving future.
Unthinkable connects adults and young people to education, tools, and resources to strengthen psychological resilience amidst worsening climate and ecological disruption. By focusing on prevention, community-minded initiatives, and access to tools and resources, we are building collective capacity to face this crisis in a way that safeguards wellbeing while promoting action.