Teen Programs
Moving from Eco-Anxiety to Eco-Hope through Youth Climate Stories:
A Partially Youth Led Workshop
Led by Chrissy Larson of Hitchcock Center
Massachusetts Environmental Education Society
Annual Conference at Nichols College
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Come to learn about climate storytelling, hear our process, and witness the hope through youth voices of Western Massachusetts!
Funded through a grant from Mass Cultural Council, the Hitchcock Center for the Environment and Climate Stories Project teamed up in 2025 to lead a 4-month project on elevating youth voices through climate storytelling. The project involved 15 teens, mostly in grades 8-12 who attended trainings and received equipment so they could record and share their personal climate stories. The youth stories were compiled into a video montage which was featured at an intergenerational community event in April 2025. Come to learn about climate storytelling, hear our process, and witness the hope through youth voices of Western Massachusetts.
2025 Youth Climate Stories Project 
In winter and spring 2025, Hitchcock Center and Climate Stories Project interviewed Massachusetts middle and high school students to record and share their climate stories, and interviewed community members about their personal responses to the changing climate.
This project elevates youth voices and tells the untold stories of young people and their experiences, understanding, and responses to climate change. The goals of this project are to use youth storytelling as a vehicle for inspiring young people to see themselves as climate change problem solvers; broadening engagement in youth climate action by inspiring peers and adult mentors; helping visitors of all ages to the Hitchcock Center learn about and get inspired by youth taking action on climate change; and catalyzing community conversations about visioning for the future.
This program is made possible by a grant from Mass Humanities, which provided funding through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC).
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