Building human resilience for climate change addressed at Washington, DC, conference
The missing piece in the response to climate disruption—preparing humans to cope with the trauma and toxic stress it causes—was the focus of a recent Conference on Building Human Resilience for Climate Change sponsored by the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) . About a hundred mental health professionals, emergency response and disaster management officials, and others from education and faith communities gathered in Washington, DC, for the two-day event. Bob...