Feds Join Conference on ‘Psychosocial Resilience’ to Climate Change – Causes Depression, PTSD, Suicide, and Spiritual Problems

Several federal officials spoke on Friday at a conference in Washington, D.C., organized by The Resource Innovation Group, an Oregon-based organization that promotes the idea that climate change can cause a range of human health problems, including PTSD, depression and suicide and that human behavior should be changed to avoid these problems. CNSNews.com’s request to cover the remarks at the conference by Jeff Stiefel, executive director for climate change and health resilience at the Homeland Security Department; Rob Tosatto, director of the HHS Medical Reserve Corps Program; and Darrin Donato, senior policy analyst and resilience policy coordinator for the Office of the Assistant HHS Secretary for Preparedness and Response, was denied, but the literature from the conference and the organization’s website provides details about the goals of the conference.
The website said attendees to the conference will learn:

• The personal mental health, spiritual, and psychosocial impacts of climate change on youth, adolescents, adults, and why major preventative human resilience-building policies and programs are urgently needed to address the risks.
• Methods, policies, and benefits of building personal resilience for climate change-enhanced traumas and toxic stresses.
• Methods, policies, and benefits of building psychosocial resilience within all types of groups and organizations for climate change-enhanced traumas and toxic stresses.
• Methods, policies, and benefits of building psychosocial resilience within communities for climate change-enhanced traumas and toxic stresses.

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