Collective & Individual Action/Justice & Equity Lens
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.
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.
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.
GrowTH Therapeutic Horticulture Learning Network
GrowTH (formerly Root in Nature) trains educators, therapists, and community leaders in therapeutic horticulture to support youth mental health and eco-anxiety. It offers courses and nature-based tools that build emotional regulation, resilience, and climate coping skills, helping young people transform eco-grief into hopeful, grounded engagement and action.
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Mochi4ThePlanet
Mochi4ThePlanet empowers diverse youth to address climate change through arts, gaming, and digital storytelling rather than traditional activism. By fostering mentorship, collaboration, and career development, the project helps youth explore climate emotions, build resilience, and co-create interactive tools like video games focused on climate mental health.
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is a Canadian mental health research and clinical organization focused on youth climate-related distress, developing the Active Hope intervention using Photovoice, conducting large student health surveys, and scaling evidence-based supports and clinician resources nationally.
TDSB Riverdale Collegiate Institute Grade 12 Environment and Resource Management Students and Teacher Paul Hackl
https://www.camh.ca/
At Riverdale Collegiate Institute, educator Paul Hackl and Grade 12 students explore climate change through hands-on, career-focused projects in Environment and Resource Management. The course empowers students to design and evaluate real-world climate adaptation and mitigation solutions while promoting sustainable social, environmental, and political action.
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BC Parks Foundation
BC Parks Foundation leads Canada’s PaRx nature prescription program, encouraging outdoor time to improve mental and physical health. Through initiatives like Learning by Nature and Spark Grants, the Foundation connects youth and communities with nature, promotes environmental stewardship, and supports equitable access to outdoor wellness and conservation opportunities.
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SafeGuards Training for Children and Adult Services
SafeGuards Training for Children and Adult Services provides trauma-informed training for professionals supporting youth affected by climate-related mental health challenges. Its programs help participants understand eco-anxiety, climate grief, and related emotions while teaching psychological and community-based strategies to foster resilience and turn distress into constructive climate action.
Planetary Health Alliance
Planetary Health Alliance unites institutions worldwide to address environmental change and human well-being. Through its Connecting Climate Minds initiative, PHA advances climate mental health research, policy, and youth engagement by providing global agendas, toolkits, case studies, and lived-experience resources that support inclusive, evidence-based climate action.
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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.