Supporting Children’s Well-being and Building Resilience as Our Climate Changes — A Guide for Educators 

The following blog is part of our Mental Health Guides 2025 series.

Children face increasing challenges to their mental and emotional well-being due to climate change. Schools, teachers, and other educators all play a vital role in creating supportive environments for children and youth. This guide offers proven and practical recommendations to help educators foster children’s climate engagement, resilience, and hope within educational spaces.

The content of this guide is adapted from the Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Children and Youth Report 2023, a collaborative publication by ecoAmerica and the American Psychological Association. Please refer to page 38 of the report for additional guiding resources for Educators.

To learn more about caring for mental health in a changing climate at any age, also refer to our Mental Health and Our Changing Climate, 2021 Edition.

Additional Resource
Mental Health Teacher Guide – A free guide from SubjectToClimate designed to help educators address climate-related mental health in the classroom.

ecoAmerica is a nonprofit organization that moves society toward climate solutions by engaging and supporting trusted national institutions to inspire and empower their millions of members in local communities across America to visibly act and advocate for ambitious, just, climate mitigation, resilience, and restoration.

American Psychological Association is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with 173,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students as its members and supporters. APA promotes the advancement, communication, and application of psychological science and knowledge to benefit society and improve lives.