Leading the field of climate-mental health
The road to climate justice is long, and paved with challenges that will require widespread cooperation, inspiration, and innovation. Yet, existing environmental and climate movements, graduate education, and professional development in climate spaces sometimes overlook the importance of incorporating social-emotional awareness and wellbeing support into their change-making strategies, thereby preventing individuals and communities from accessing the mental healthcare they need to recover from climate disaster and sustain their activism.
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To fortify the climate movement and transform our current systems of care, the Climate Care Collaborative is building a climate-mental health field that is equipped to provide informed, consistent, and sustainable care to support:
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Communities directly impacted by climate catastrophe and extreme weather events;
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Care professionals and first responders at severe risk of burnout;
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Climate justice activists and leaders;
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Climate professionals working in mitigation, adaptation, and preparation;
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Youth, parents, elders, people with disabilities, immigrants, and BIPOC communities; and
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Educators, researchers, and scientists​.
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Only with a robust, well-resourced, and inclusive climate-mental health field, can we holistically address the urgent, increasing, and intensifying impacts of climate change and shape the world that we, and future generations, deserve.
Mission
We are working to develop, expand, and drive resources into the emergent field of climate psychology and mental health in order to better support climate-mental health professionals and the climate-impacted communities we serve.
Vision
While the organizations within the Climate Care Collaborative represent and serve different populations and communities, we collectively share the vision of a just, healthy, and joyful future in which social and ecological systems thrive.
The Climate Care Collaborative is dedicated to pioneering a climate-mental health field that responds to the lack of social-emotional awareness, resources, and skill-building within the larger climate movement by creating opportunities for climate and care professionals to build the skills, relationships, teaching models, and communication pathways necessary to address the mental health demands of climate change.
Our Impact
We are building the field that the climate movement needs in order to secure the future we deserve.
Mental Wellbeing and Skill-Building
Psychological Resilience
A cohesive and well-resourced climate-mental health field helps ensure that culturally-appropriate and accessible wellbeing strategies are part of a holistic response to climate change that includes trauma prevention, mental health care, community resilience, and post-disaster recovery education.​ By providing resources and support for cultivating psychological resilience, we fill a critical gap in climate response plans and help communities more thoroughly recover from and prepare for climate instability. ​
Climate Empowerment
Transformative Advocacy
​A healthy and resilient society is more likely to engage in public discourse and take action on climate. Our initiatives catalyze a breakthrough in the climate-mental health field’s capacity to educate the public and policy-makers, champion mental healthcare reform, and empower individuals to advocate for a just transition toward sustainable social, economic, and political systems.
Intersectional Solidarity
Collaborative Network
Our collaborative approach weaves a supportive network that strengthens the climate-mental health field's relationships, normalizes a culture of cooperation, and enhances organizational capacity to continue delivering critical support to the diverse groups of climate activists, professionals, first responders, and climate-impacted communities we serve.