Eco anxiety: Supporting Young People to Navigate the Climate Crisis
Research has shown that nearly half of young people report feeling distressed or anxious about climate change in a way that affects their daily lives. Hosted during COP27, this 90-minute webinar will take a look at what eco-anxiety is and how the youth work sector can support young people to manage the emotional toll that climate change has on their mental health. Guest speakers will highlight how the sector can empower young people to build resilience and turn feelings of overwhelm into hope and positive social action. The event is open to young people and youth workers from across Scotland and is run as part of the Our Bright Future project.
Eco Crisis Mental Health for Youth 2021
The ecological crisis is having a significant impact on our mental health, in particular young people. There is an ongoing debate whether this topic should be front and centre for mental health professionals, and those that work with children. What do they need to be doing? What do young people think? How can we work together? As the world focuses on COP26, we’ll be discussing the mental health implications of climate change with leading mental health professionals and young people.
ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards 2024
ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards (YEA) is an all-Ireland environmental awards programme that recognises and rewards young people who raise environmental awareness and improve the environment. The YEA programme is a fun and exciting way to empower young people to become better citizens, to build awareness of environmental issues in the community and promote local actions and lifestyle changes to the environment. Over 50,000 young people have taken part in the YEA since it began, bringing about lasting change to the environment, and reaching countless others with awareness-raising campaigns in schools and communities throughout Ireland.
Eco-Anxiety & Youth: Promoting Resilience and Positive Mental Health by Dermot Hurley
The growing impact of the ongoing climate crisis is impossible to ignore, not least on the emotional well-being of children and youth who are experiencing profound eco-emotions and climate crisis anxiety. Dealing with climate anxiety and developing emotional resilience requires initiatives at multiple levels including targeted education & health care, dissemination of correct scientific information, environmental activism, and links to environmental protection agencies. Promoting resilience in youth is a multi-dimensional process involving the interaction of complex connections between individual, relational, cultural, and socio-political systems.
Eco Eye, Dr Lara Dungan – Healthy Environment for Health and Wellbeing
Medical advancements over the course of our lifetime have been astronomical. Many of the diseases that killed our parent’s generation only 30 years ago, are no longer the same threat to us today. But with new threats and diseases constantly developing will we continue to live longer and healthier lives? Unfortunately now a whole host of new issues are affecting our health and well-being. Many of these issues are related to the environment we live in and how we live of lives. In this episode Dr Lara Dungan looks at some of the issues and concerns that affect our health and lifespan. How and where we live, travel and work… the air we breathe, the water we drink, even the packaging that the water comes in, all combine to have a huge impact on our health. Dr Lara Dungan will explore how all these factors affect our health, and discover what we can do to protect ourselves and our children from everyday environmental pollution.
National Youth Health Programme (NYHP) – Young Men’s Mental Health
The NYCI Youth Health Programme has created this video to highlight issues experienced by young men around mental health. In 2018 the National Youth Health Programme (NYHP) conducted a rapid needs assessment among the youth work sector in Ireland to investigate ‘Young Men’s Health’. From the assessment according to youth workers anger (88%), anxiety (86%) and stress (86%) are biggest factors young men are dealing with in today’s society. In response, for Men’s Health Week 2019, we have created a series of short videos to support youth workers to start the conversation with young men in dealing with these issues.
