Coming together
Climate cafes, listening circles, and resilience groups that hold difficult feelings and build belonging.
A resource of the Mental Health and Climate Change Alliance
The climate is changing how we feel. Let's measure what helps.
A toolkit for initiatives that tend to mental health in a changing climate, from climate cafes to land-based programs to community resilience groups. Choose measures that fit your community, design your evaluation, and show the difference your work makes.
The spine of the framework
Grounded in Evidence-based Principles for Promoting Climate Resilience
Evidence-informed, community-grounded ways to support mental health in a changing climate. Each principle is part of how an initiative creates change and is measured as an outcome for the people and communities it serves. Open any principle to read what it means and how to measure it.
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Cultivate accurate climate literacy
02Embrace climate realities with emotional diversity
03Inspire optimism for the future
04Strengthen social connections
05Enhance nature bonding
06Expand emotional resilience and coping
07Champion climate justice
08Integrate a trauma-informed, culturally safe approach
09Empower community-led adaptation
10Adopt a collective responsibility approach
“No one has to face climate challenges alone.”
The tenth guiding principle, and the reason connection runs through this work
5 program domains
11 outcome domains
How it is organized
A flexible framework for evaluating mental health programs responding to climate change and natural disasters
Climate and mental health work reaches well beyond clinical measures to capture emotional, relational, ecological, and collective change. The framework holds that range in sixteen domains across two levels.
Program-level domains describe an initiative and which of the ten principles its activities work through, as its theory of change. Participant and community domains describe the changes people and communities experience, one for each principle. No indicator is ranked above another. Each carries a measurement-burden estimate, so you choose what fits your capacity and still measure the same things as everyone else.
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One toolkit, many kinds of work
Built for the diversity of climate and mental health initiatives
On the land
Nature-based, land-based, and cultural programs that deepen connection to place and to each other.
Looking ahead
Youth empowerment, storytelling, activist support, and clinical care that turn distress into agency.
Where to start
Your evaluation, end to end
Four steps, in order. Start wherever you are.
Put your initiative on the map
Help build a shared picture of what works
Create a profile, add your facilitators and partner network, and evaluate your work with measures built for it. New registrations are reviewed before they appear publicly.