STARRT is a resilience tool to help and support adolescents to begin making sense of what is happening around them after tough times such as a climate disaster. It helps adolescents to process their thoughts, feelings and actions. It also encourages connection between caregiver and adolescent.

STARRT has been designed with adolescents, for adolescents and is informed by evidence-based psychological and wellbeing principles. It is a universal resource that includes a mix of fun activities and games, psychoeducation, psychosocial CBT informed activities (like what teens learn at school), mindfulness and prompts to facilitate conversations with peers and/or adults they trust … and so much more.

Many adolescents may feel like they don’t know where or how to start a conversation with an adult or peer that they trust, so the STARRT Cards can be completed independently by the teen and then they can tear them off and hand them to an adult or peer that they trust. This starts the conversation with no or minimal need for the adolescent to talk.

STARRT does not replace the importance of caregivers and mental health professionals, it is simply a starting place for teens to begin their own, unique recovery after something hard has happened.