Climate Change Makers
Building Youth and Family Climate Leaders
Climate Change Makers is a youth- and family-centered climate leadership initiative that helps communities understand climate impacts, prepare for extreme weather, and take meaningful climate action through creative expression, digital tools, and community engagement.
Our work transforms climate stress and anxiety into preparedness, leadership, and collective action—centering youth voice while strengthening families as critical partners in climate resilience.
Our Climate Change Maker Ecosystem
Climate Change Makers is designed as a multi-entry ecosystem that meets youth and families where they are and supports action at multiple levels.
Learn - Youth explore the climate impacts affecting their communities through interactive, age-appropriate learning. Prepare - Families access trauma-informed preparedness resources for extreme heat, hurricanes, drought, flooding, and severe storms. Create - Youth express lived experience through artivism and storytelling shared in a public digital Climate Change Makers Gallery. Act - Youth and families turn learning into action through planning tools, workshops, and community engagement.
Become a Climate Change Maker App
The Become a Climate Change Maker app is a scalable digital platform that equips youth and families nationwide with climate learning, creative engagement, preparedness tools, and clear action pathways across all major U.S. climate impacts.
Youth can: • Explore climate impacts affecting their community
• Express ideas through creative challenges and artivism
• Build confidence as climate problem-solvers
Families and caregivers can:
• Access practical preparedness resources for local climate risks
• Support youth emotional well-being and resilience
• Plan for extreme weather together
Climate Change Maker Gallery
A Public Digital Gallery of Youth Climate Artivism
The Climate Change Makers Gallery showcases youth art and storytelling that reflect how climate change impacts real lives and communities, amplifying youth voice and inspiring climate action.
Weathering the Storm: Youth Climate Resilience Workshops
Weathering the Storm is a trauma-informed, creative workshop series that supports youth mental health while building climate preparedness and leadership. Through interactive activities, youth process climate-related stress, learn how extreme weather affects their communities, build strategies for preparedness and response, and support youth-led climate action alongside families.
Impact at a Glance
Climate Change Makers has reached thousands of youth and families nationwide through digital engagement, creative expression, and in-person workshops that build climate preparedness and youth-led action.
• 19,888 Climate Change Makers newsletters delivered in 2025 (38.1% open rate)
• 6,737 visitors to the Climate Change Makers Gallery
• 315 youth participants engaged through Weathering the Storm workshops
• 7 community partners
“I didn’t know heat could affect us this much. I’m going to share this with my family.”
“Our goal was to make climate change relatable, and seeing young people connect it to their own lives showed the program was successful.”
