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May 2020
[Training] COVID-Related Stigma & Discrimination: Recognizing Bias & Enhancing Coping
Trainers: Amy Kapadia, LMSSW, PhD, Lecturer (Bio) & Samantha Winter, PhD, Assistant Professor (Bio) Description: Utilizing the evidence-based practice model of Psychoeducation this webinar will highlight the multi-systems impact of stigma, racism, and discrimination as it relates to COVID-19, and compounding factors that contribute to health disparities, barriers to help-seeking and diminished human agency. We will create space to examine our own biases and reactions that influence our helping relationships, and share strategies and tools to support practitioners in empowering those with…
Find out more »[Training] Loss & Grief in Real Time: The African American Experience with COVID-19
Presenters: M. Katherine Shear, MD. Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Center for Complicated Grief (Bio) Nicole Alston, MSW, Associate for the Center for Complicated Grief (Bio) Johnnie Green, DMin, Senior Pastor Mount Neboh Baptist Church - Harlem (Bio) Description: As of May 4, over 68,000 people have died in the United States from COVID-19. The death rate for Black Americans is 2.7 times higher than the rate for Whites leaving a catastrophic number of Black Americans grieving…
Find out more »[Training] Staying Close from a Distance: Strengthening Social Support Amid COVID-19
Presenters: Dr. Susan S. Witte (Bio)Dr. Carolina Vélez-Grau (Bio) Description: Social support is among the most important aspects of human relationships and a central component of healing and wellness. This training is designed to examine social support—an exchange of assistance through social relationships— in its many forms, and as it has become at once compromised, yet more important than ever amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We will examine the impact that the pandemic has had on our ability to connect socially…
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[Training] Navigating COVID-19 with Novel Intervention Strategies to Reach Women at Risk of Partner Violence
Presenters: Louisa Gilbert, Associate Professor of Social Work (Bio) Laura Fernandez, LMSW, Clinical Director of Sanctuary for Families (Bio) Moderator: Anindita Dasgupta, PhD (Bio) Description: This session will provide a brief overview of how social and economic consequences of COVID-19 are increasing risks for partner violence and how COVID-19 is creating challenges and opportunities for domestic violence services to pivot to reach, engage and intervene with women at elevated risk for partner violence. During this session, participants will learn basic…
Find out more »[Training] Responding to COVID-19: How to Provide Acute Stress Intervention (ASI) to Healthcare Staff Experiencing COVID-19 related Stress
Presenters: Carrie Epstein, LCSW-R (Bio)Assistant Professor, Yale Child Study CenterDirector of Clinical Services and Training, Childhood Violent Trauma Center at the Yale Child Study Center Steven Marans, MSW, PhD (Bio)Harris Professor, Yale Child Study CenterDirector, National Center for Children Exposed to Violence/Childhood Violent Trauma Center at the Yale Child Study CenterDirector, Trauma ServiceProfessor of Psychiatry Description: This workshop is a special partnership with the Childhood Violent Trauma Center of the Yale Child Study Center at Yale University School of Medicine…
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