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Please Ask Your US Representative to Co-Sponsor the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act

As of today 113 national, regional, state, and local organizations have endorsed the bi-partisan Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act (CMWRA) introduced in Congress by Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)---and the list continues to grow! Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), and co-sponsor Rep. Cathy Castor (D-FL) are now seeking additional co-sponsors in the House. Rep. David Trone (D-MD), Katie Porter (D-CA), and Suzanne Bonamici...

Bob Doppelt to address Community Mental Wellness and Resiliency Act on Monday’s Resiliency Within Podcast

Bob Doppelt, the coordinator of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) will discuss why community-based initiatives that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience are important approaches to combat widespread harmful mental health and psychosocial problems generated by the climate emergency when he appears on the Resiliency Within podcast at 1 p.m. PT; 4 p.m. ET on Monday, Oct. 24. In September 2023 alone,...

Over 100 Organizations Endorse the Introduction of the Tonko-Fitzpatrick Bi-Partisan "Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act"

The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC)* and over 100 other national, regional, state, and local mental health, human services, education, faith, and other organizations today strongly endorsed the bi-partisan “Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act” (CMWRA) introduced by US Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA). The legislation has garnered support from Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL), who is an original cosponsor, as well as national...

Bob Doppelt to address Community Mental Wellness and Resiliency Act on Monday’s Resiliency Within Podcast

Bob Doppelt, the coordinator of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) will discuss why community-based initiatives that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience are important approaches to combat widespread harmful mental health and psychosocial problems generated by the climate emergency when he appears on the Resiliency Within podcast at 1 p.m. PT; 4 p.m. ET on Monday, Oct. 24. In September 2023 alone,...

Will the Biggest Fossil Fuel States Sabotage Biden’s Climate Package? (capitalandmain.com)

President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act in the State Dining Room of the White House on August 16. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Author: To read the Capital and Main article, please click here. Hailed by President Biden as “the most aggressive action ever to combat the climate crisis,” the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) commits $369 billion to clean energy and greenhouse gas reduction. But the IRA’s progress towards its ambitious goals and the larger fight to stave off the...

How to Help Survivors of Extreme Climate Events (psychologytoday.com)

By Elaine Miller-Karas MSW, LCSW Building Resiliency to Trauma Psychology Today, September 30, 2022 Mental health can suffer after extreme climate events. KEY POINTS Mental health conditions exacerbated by natural disasters include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. After a disaster, the number of people needing assistance from the mental health systems strains or exceeds community capacity. There are simple strategies helpers can use to help survivors restore...

Request for Your Organizational Endorsement of the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act

This is a request for your organization to endorse the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act (CMWRA) developed by Representative Paul Tonko (D-NY). This is the legislation the ITRC has been working on for two years (and was previously called the Resilience for All Act) Rep. Tonko plans to introduce the CMWRA in Congress in late October . Before he does we would like to gather a wide and diverse set of endorsements from national, regional, state, tribal, and local organizations. To...

Last chance to register for Sept 13 webinar on using public mental health approach for the climate crisis

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER For Next Tuesday's Sept. 13 Webinar on the Need To Use a Public Health Approach in Communities to Build Population Mental Wellness & Resilience for the Climate Crisis The Webinar Will Describe the ITRC Community of Practice (CoP) that Begins in October on How to Organize and Operate Public Mental Health Initiatives in Communities. To register for the September 13 webinar go to the ITRC website: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/ The Climate Crisis Requires...

A summer reading list for climate survival and hope [wagingnonviolence.org]

By Frida Berrigan , August 23, 2022, Waging Nonviolence My beach reading stack was less whodunits and guilty pleasures and more of a Climate Change 101 survey course. But in this summer of widespread drought, heatwaves melting roads , super storm events, a deadlocked international climate meeting, the protracted political saga of the senator in Big Coal’s back pocket, and lots of other top-of-the-fold climate catastrophe news, my deep dive was in the service of survival and wide-eyed hope...

How Heat Waves Take a Toll on Mental Health [nytimes.com]

By Hannah Seo, Illustration: María Medem, The New York Times, August 19, 2022 Tens of millions of people across the United States have been enduring heat wave after heat wave this summer, in what feels like an unrelenting succession of humid days and scorching temperatures. While there’s no denying that extreme heat and humidity can be physically uncomfortable, research suggests that such conditions can be trying on your psychological well-being, too. “We see across the whole spectrum of...

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