TREEAMS
TREEAMS
Trees + Dreams = TREEAMS
A student-led movement of healing, hope, and action, empowering students to come together to plant trees, restore community, and reimagine Los Angeles as a greener, more resilient city for generations to come.
TREEAMS is a collaboration between Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, Seven Arrows Elementary, Little Dolphins By The Sea Preschool, SoLa Foundation, and UCLA School of Education.
Together, Revitalizing Envir
onments and Elevating Awareness by Mobilizing Society
ABOUT US
The Los Angeles Fires
On January 7, 2025, unprecedented wildfires swept through Los Angeles, devastating both the Pacific Palisades and Altadena communities, destroying more than 16,000 structures and severely damaging more than a dozen schools. Overnight, families lost their homes and dispersed to find temporary housing. Schools turned to online education and sought new locations – sometimes in distant areas of the city. After years of disrupt
ion from COVID, we suddenly faced renewed isolation, uncertainty and in some cases despair.
Jane Goodall’s Philosophy
Having written The Book of Hope, Jane Goodall has consistently taught us the importance of hope — hope that takes action and works with determination to move toward the small speck of light at the end of a tunnel. This is the h
ope we need as we face the daunting challenge of rebuilding our
beloved communities, both in Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
At a time when depression, anxiety, and loneliness are at record highs among young people, it is essential that we model optimism, connection and resilience. By providing young people with the opportunity to come together and take positive action, we teach them to not only heal from the fires, but also prepare to face future challenges with hope and resilience.
TREEAMS Program
In response, TREEAMS —Together Revitalizing Environments and Elevating Awareness by Mobilizing Society—was born as a student-led movement of healing, hope and action. TREEAMS empowers students to come together across the city to plant trees, restore optimism, and reimagine Los Angeles as a greener, more resilient city for generations to come.
TREEAMS is empowering students to lead the ecological and emotional renewal of their communities. Through environmental education, tree mapping, and large-scale tree planting, the project seeks to transform grief into action by restoring burned landscapes, replanting lost trees, and cultivating resilience. Students will learn from local experts what types of trees to plant, how to plant, and how to maintain the newly planted trees.
TREEAMS will build unity across Los Angeles, providing a roadmap for students to work together to rebuild their communities. We are creating a network of school partnerships that cross geographic boundaries and build unity between public and private schools. All generations, from young siblings to grandparents, will be encouraged to attend tree planting events. The planting of each tree will be a symbolic act of healing and unity.
To carry out the work, student leaders will be equipped with tools to drive environmental change, including learning Jane Goodall’s Tree Planting and Restoration System to document a neighborhood’s current conditions and provide a long-term framework to monitor growth and sustaina
bility.
Ultimately, the project’s objective is to create a greener Los Angeles where students and their communities not only heal from loss, but also shape a sustainable, hopeful future for generations to come.
Our Goals
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Unity – Bring students together across schools and communities to collaborate on environmental action.
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Healing through Connection – Create spaces where students, families, and organizations come together in partnership; Encourage joy, connection, and resilience through meaningful engagement with nature
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Empower Students – Leadership training, environmental education
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Restore Ecosystems – Replant native plants and trees, reduce fire risk.
List of Important Key Dates
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October 1: Kick off Event with Jane Goodall
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October 26: Monthly Student Zoom Meeting – email treeams@sevenarrows.org to RSVP
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January 5 – January 11: Fire Prevention Week
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January 18: Tree planning at Aldersgate, Pacific Palisades
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April 22 (Earth Day): Large Scale Tree Planting Event in West Los Angeles
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April (Date TBD): Large Scale Tree Planting in Arcadia
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Mar-May: Small Scale Tree Planting Events Led by Students throughout Los Angeles
Partners and Supporters
TREEAMS is a collaboration among schools, both public and private, community organizations, foundations and corporations, all coming together to build hope and create impact.
Lead Organizations: Jane Goodall Institute, Seven Arrows Elementary School, Little Dolphins by the Sea Preschool
Key Partners: SoLa Foundation, UCLA Department of Education, Palisades Forestry Committee, Palisades Historic Society, Impact AO Foundation
Contact info:treeams@sevenarrows.org
2800 28th Street
Santa Monica CA 90405
(310) 230-0257
Please join us today for a day of remembrance as our community observes the one year anniversary of the Palisades fire, and we celebrate the student-led initiative to inspire hope through action. TREEAMS.
Trees + Dreams
Seven Arrows Aldersgate Historic House
925 Haverford Ave.
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
2 - 4 pm
We went out to the Will Rogers trail, a beloved LA hike that holds deep meaning for our Pacific Palisades community. After the fires ravaged this landscape and destroyed the historic home on the premises, the trail was closed to the public. Earlier this month, the trail reopened, demonstrating nature’s remarkable ability to recover and renew.
At TREEAMS, we believe in the power of reconnecting with the earth as a path towards healing our community. We celebrate this momentous occasion and invite you to come on out and enjoy it too.
If you do visit Will Rogers, please do so with reverence. This glorious park was changed by the fire, so hold compassion for yourself as you re-enter and experience this landscape, as it may stir up normal feelings of grief and loss. Be gentle as you explore these grounds in a state of recovery. Tread gently and respectfully. Listen to the sounds of nature. Admire the trees as they welcome creatures back, and paint our landscapes with their beauty.
Through TREEAMS, we will plant trees along this trail. Slowly and surely it will all come back, green and strong, if we all do our part to respect Mother Nature.
Join us to be part of our city’s resurgence.
Rain in LA! Our urban trees are working overtime today.
While we enjoy this rainy day, our green giants are quietly protecting our city—their roots grip the soil, creating a living network that prevents erosion and mudslides on our hillsides. Each tree acts like a natural umbrella and funnel, intercepting rainfall through its canopy and guiding water slowly down its trunk and root system into our precious aquifers below.
In the burned areas of Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena, where trees have been lost, rain will not permeate the soil as well, which can lead to mudslides. Water that is not absorbed by our soil runs off, flowing into storm drains, carrying pollutants into the ocean.
Our mission of replanting trees will enable rain water to infiltrate the soil, recharging groundwater supplies and keeping our bay clean.
Join TREEAMS to replant and restore our urban forest and help our city come back to life.
We are excited to announce that TREEAMS joins 10 other global organizations, including Choose Love, Green Horizons, Kids for Peace, Homeboy Industries, Narrative 4, Open Roads, Ripples of Hope, Search for Common Ground, CARE, and Welcoming America, to receive grants through the Unique and United Project. Youth participants will also have the opportunity at the end of the school year to vote and decide which of these organizations will receive an additional $50,000 to further their peace work.
Creative Visions has chosen TREEAMS to receive a grant to support the expansion of youth empowerment initiatives as part of the Students Rebuild Unique & United project.
This funding will deepen TREEAMS’ work to restore optimism in Los Angeles after the 2025 fires!
A big thank you to @creativevisionsfoundation ! 🌳
To quote Dr. Jane Goodall:
“Together We Can, Together We Will, Together We Must”!
The SA Way Of Education’s annual Global Festival: Día de los Muertos — a celebration of life & death.
On Nov. 7th, @thesawayofeducation and Seven Arrows Elementary, Roots & Wings, with our extended Little Dolphins community, honored Dr. Jane Goodall, with the entrance altar of the annual Festival fostering community, remembrance and reverence for those who came before us.
As a centerpoint of unity, a beautiful tree that acted as a center gathering point and host for the festivities following a day of honoring those past & performance. It is the first time in 27 years of the festival that a tree has been the centerpiece of the ensuing Fiesta, but certainly not the last.
An ode and link to the TREEAMs initiative launched in partnership with Dr. Jane Goodall, just over a month ago, we will do our part to ensure through her legacy and leadership that @janegoodallinst’s work remains alive even in the beyond following her death. In Mexican culture, passing and the afterlife, is as revered as the phase of living.
By remembering Dr. Jane, we keep her message alive and present in our hearts.
In the wake of this week’s Nov. 12th moving memorial service at Washington D.C.’s National Cathedral in celebration of Dame Dr. Jane Goodall’s life, legacy, and work, we would like to remember her once more for her inspiration, stewardship, partnership–really, for everything she was. A founding partner of TREEAMS, a mentor to all of us…we are even so lucky to call her a friend.
Dr. Goodall was indeed a friend to many; to nature, to animals, and more broadly, to planet Earth, for whom her commitment to conservation was so endless that it became her legacy–an extension of her teachings which remain as examples of leadership in our hearts every day. We are lucky to say that Dr. Goodall was a friend and ally of The SA Way of Education.
Together as lead partners, The Jane Goodall Institute & our collection of schools hope that you can join us in our initiative to plant over 5000 trees by 2030, to help replant and rebuild following the Los Angeles fires.
Exciting Partnership & fundraising milestone announcements to follow 🌳
Mission & Vision: a powerful network of schools.
5000 trees
5 years
LA -2 D°F
$2M USD
Coming together to replant LA. Join the movement today. #LAStrong #Treeams
