Join a panel of experts as we discuss the mental health impacts of climate change on youth, exploring the role of schools and community-based agencies in fostering resilience through social emotional learning to address eco-anxiety.
The Role of SEL in Addressing Eco-Anxiety
This webinar will convene experts from the field to discuss the mental health impacts—both acute and intense—of climate change on our world's youth. Our panel of clinicians, researchers, and educators will share their perspectives on the current landscape, including how climate change is impacting the mental health of a generation and who is most impacted.
We'll hear ideas for what role schools and community-based agencies play in helping young people cope with the complex feelings of adjusting to a warming world and how social emotional learning may help build resiliency and foster agency for those most impacted. This webinar is designed for educators, policy-makers, and anyone interested in how to protect our planet and the health of the future generations who will live in it.
Resources
- "Helping Children Cope with Climate Anxiety" co-authored by Shai Fuxman
- "Educator's Guide to Climate Emotions" from Carolyn McGrath with the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
- Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders by Angelou Ezeilo
- Greening Youth Foundation founded by Angelou Ezeilo
- Climate Change and Mental Health: Psychological Impacts, Resilience Resources & Future Directions from Larissa Dooley
- Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis by Britt Wray
- The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
- The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators
Services
EDC Solutions Education & Wellbeing training and technical assistance can be found on our services page.
Dr. Shai Fuxman, a behavioral health expert and senior research scientist, leads initiatives promoting the positive development of youth and serves as a technical assistance specialist and advisor for EDC Solutions.
Richard Fournier, partnership director of EDC Solutions, is experienced in SEL and mental health and a licensed superintendent, former teacher, and researcher.
Dr. Larissa Dooley is a science advisor and researcher at Climate Mental Health Network and first author of a report on climate anxiety in young people commissioned by Blue Shield of California
Carolyn McGrath is a visual arts teacher at Hopewell Valley Central High School and co-author of An Educator's Guide to Climate Emotions, a report from the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
Dr. Britt Wray is the Director of CIRCLE (Community-minded Interventions for Resilience, Climate Leadership and Emotional wellbeing) within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine.
Angelou Ezeilo, JD, is the esteemed founder of the Greening Youth Foundation, a pioneering organization devoted to involving young individuals from underrepresented communities in the realm of conservation.