Climate Change and Child Mental health

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Join us for an educational Chapter Chat: Climate Change and Child Mental Health brought to you by Climate Health Now on October 9 @ 12:30PM. This is an educational webinar on mental health impacts of climate change on kids and adolescents and tips and discussion about how to talk about climate change, facilitated by Dr. Chelsea Young, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Northern California and Reverend Talitha Aho, hospital chaplain at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and author of “In Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis.”

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Meet Our Speakers

Chelsea Young, MD

Speaker

Chelsea Young MD is a board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist practicing in Marin County. Based on a literature review conducted during her child psychiatry fellowship at Stanford University, Dr. Young created a talk to educate fellow healthcare providers about responding to climate anxiety in youth. Dr. Young conducts advocacy work around building climate-resilient schools via Climate Health Now, Climate Psychiatry Alliance and 350.org. Additionally Dr. Young was a contributor to the Climate-Resilient California Schools: A Call to Action report published in 2023.

Reverend Talitha Aho

Speaker

Reverend Talitha Aho is a chaplain at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and the author of In Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis (Fortress Press, 2022). She is a Presbyterian minister and has worked with the young since she was old enough to qualify as a chaperone; she specifically speaks from her experience working with young people at the intersection of the climate crisis and their own spiritual/existential crises. She is also newly the chair of the hospital’s Green Team and learning how to lead change in the institutional setting.