Vision

Climate instability is one of the most urgent public health threats of the 21st century. Mental health is profoundly impacted by disruptions associated with climate change. 

Since individuals only have a limited impact, we can be more effective when we join together to amplify our voices and actions.

Mission

We educate the profession and the public about the urgent risks of the climate crisis, including its profound impacts on mental health and well-being.

As a grassroots collaboration of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, we aim to nimbly and creatively advocate for change—educating and motivating others to act to protect health and build a sustainable world. We are creating a forum to bring psychiatrists and other mental health professionals together to form a collective voice.

We intend:

• To provide a vehicle for sharing information, promoting empowering actions, supporting rational responses, and fostering resilience;

• To provide resources and information to professionals, the public, and the media about the health and mental-health impacts of climate disruption;

• To influence policy, through effective advocacy, to professional organizations and policy leaders at the local, state and national level;

• To inform and educate the profession, and the public, about best practices to support individual and community mental health and well-being in the face of climate change;

• To establish collaboration with like-minded national and international colleagues and groups.