June 15th, Responding to COVID-19: How to Provide Acute Stress Intervention (ASI) to Healthcare Staff Experiencing COVID-19 related Stress

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Responding to COVID-19: How to Provide Acute Stress Intervention (ASI) to Healthcare Staff Experiencing COVID-19 related Stress Download   Slides Download   Resources to Support Adults, Parents, Children and Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic Download   Acute Stress Disorder Scale (ASDS) adapted for COVID-19 Download   Brief Outline for ASI Download   Complete Outline for ASI [Recording of this training will be uploaded here once ready.] Date and Time: Monday, June 15th, 2020, 9:30am-12:30am Presenters:  Carrie Epstein, LCSW-R (Bio) Assistant Professor, Yale Child Study Center Director 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 Center Director, National Center for Children Exposed to Violence/Childhood Violent Trauma Center at the Yale Child Study Center Director, Trauma Service Professor 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 Developed by Steven Marans, MSW, PhD and Carrie Epstein, LCSW-R, The Acute Stress Intervention for Adults (ASI) is a brief, 1 to 4 session...
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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 core components of WINGS, an evidence-based SBIRT brief intervention tool. This session will also cover how digital technology and novel intervention strategies may be employed to intervene with women who are sheltering in place. Objectives: Identify pathways linking COVID-related mulit-level factors to recent increase in different types of partner violence Increase knowledge of how to use WINGS an evidence-based  brief intervention strategy to identify and address partner violence Employ novel culturally tailored intervention strategies and technology to reach out, engage and intervene with key affected populations of women...
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June 8th, Navigating COVID-19 with Novel Intervention Strategies to Reach Women at Risk of Partner Violence

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Navigating COVID-19 with Novel Intervention Strategies to Reach Women at Risk of Partner Violence Slides: Download [Recording of this training will be uploaded here once ready.] Date and time: Monday, June 8th, 2020, 1 pm - 2:30 pm 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 core components of WINGS, an evidence-based SBIRT brief intervention tool. This session will also cover how digital technology and novel intervention strategies may be employed to intervene with women who are sheltering in place. Objectives: Identify pathways linking COVID-related mulit-level factors to recent increase in different types of partner violence Increase knowledge...
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[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 and the consequences of this impact; and explore how we may help individuals, families, and communities to maintain, restore and strengthen social networks as we adapt to new social norms with resilience. Objectives: After completing this training participants will be able to: Name and identify forms of informal and formal supports; and predominant theories informing the role of social support in health and mental health. Describe the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has compromised social support across cultures while forcing new, emerging meaning and types of...
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[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 their loss. COVID deaths are especially difficult for everyone, but racism and the disparities it engenders further magnify the untoward outcomes of these losses. This webinar will provide a HEALING milestones model for psychoeducation on grief and adaptation to loss. We’ll moderate a discussion of the challenges of having a loved one die during the COVID-19 pandemic and how we might meet them. The focus of the webinar will be on the lived experience of grief in the African American community as told by...
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