Community Building/Peer-to-Peer/Relationship Building
Be the Change Earth Alliance
BTCEA empowers youth and educators to address climate change through education, storytelling, and collective action. Its programs build emotional resilience, climate justice awareness, critical thinking, and leadership skills, helping primary and secondary students across BC create hopeful, sustainable, and community-focused responses to environmental challenges.
EcoHope
EcoHope is a student-focused initiative at Dalhousie University that helps students cope with eco-anxiety through nature-based activities, community building, and evidence-based interventions that foster resilience, agency, and hope for a sustainable future.
Good Grief Network
Good Grief Network is a nonprofit supporting people affected by eco-distress and collective trauma. Its GGN-Z initiative helps climate-aware youth process emotions about the climate crisis through peer support, active listening, vulnerability, and coping practices like journaling and meditation, while building resilience and meaningful community action.
YCARE
Y-CARE is an international project partnering with youth services in the U.S., Canada, and Australia to co-design and test youth-led support programs for 16–25-year-olds experiencing climate distress. It focuses especially on frontline communities and addresses the lack of evidence-based mental health interventions for worsening climate anxiety and hopelessness.
Youth Climate Lab
The Youth Climate Lab empowers youth to actively participate in climate decision-making through programs focused on healing, community, and resilience. Using storytelling, art, and participatory design, YCL supports BIPOC youth and climate activists by addressing eco-anxiety, burnout, and mental health in the climate sector.
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Wellness Impact Lab
Wellness Impact Lab (WIL) is a student-focused organization that promotes mental health, climate resilience, and collective action through research, community programs, and wellness initiatives. Through Climate Cafes and mindfulness-based wellness series, WIL helps participants build emotional resilience, reduce stress, and foster sustainable social change.
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Psychiatree
Psychiatree, founded by Dr. Nate Charach, supports people experiencing climate distress through empathy-based group psychotherapy inspired by Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects. Using reflective discussions and experiential practices, the organization helps individuals process eco-anxiety, build resilience, and foster meaningful personal and collective change.
Climate Hearth/Foyer pour le climat
Climate Hearth/Foyer pour le climat is a bilingual Montreal non-profit supporting community resilience and eco-anxiety coping through peer support groups, workshops, and events. Focused on youth disproportionately affected by climate change, it fosters intergenerational connection, emotional processing, and collective climate action using accessible, community-based mental health supports.
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Mental Health and Climate Change Alliance
The Mental Health & Climate Change Alliance supports mental health and resilience in response to climate change through youth-informed resources, climate communication, workshops, and community programs. Backed by the BC Ministry of Health, the organization emphasizes youth leadership, climate well-being, and trauma-informed support for individuals and communities.
Climate Sanctuary
Climate Sanctuary is a peer-support initiative founded under Sustainability Studio to support people engaged in climate-related work. Through monthly restorative circles, participants share emotions surrounding ecological crisis in a compassionate space focused on connection, grief, empathy, and collective resilience.
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Officially Annette Dubreuil - PUPA Focusing.
Annette Debreuil’s organization teaches Gendlin’s Focusing through peer-to-peer sessions where a “focuser” and “listener” explore emotions for healing and increased agency. It integrates grounding practices, nature-based imagery, four-element centering, and empathy circles. Services include courses, one-on-one sessions, and professional training for facilitators.
Climate Freelancer
https://pupa.ca/
Climate freelancer, part of Nova Scotia’s Public Interest Research Group, hosts climate cafes, workshops, and art shows tailored for youth and the general public in the maritime provinces. Climate freelancer also creates educational brochures and engages in focus discussions. The aim of this organization is to alleviate the feeling of stress and anxiety caused by environmental justice issues. It is a student-led initiative led by undergraduate and masters’ students.
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Break The Divide
Break The Divide is a youth-focused organization supporting mental health in the context of climate change. It creates safe, peer-led spaces like Climate Emotions Circles and school workshops, guided by a six-pillar framework, to foster belonging, resilience, and collective action among youth aged 13–25.