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Available
Now: Cultural Awareness: Children and Youth in Disasters
The goal of this
60-minute podcast is to assist disaster behavioral health responders in
providing culturally aware and appropriate disaster behavioral health
services for children, youth, and families affected by natural and
human-caused disasters.
The podcast aims to
accomplish the following:
- Define cultural awareness.
- Demonstrate the importance
of cultural awareness in disaster services, particularly with children
and youth.
- Identify common reactions
of children to disaster and trauma.
- Present helpful approaches
to working with children affected by a disaster.
Featured speakers
include April Naturale, Ph.D., of the SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance
Center (DTAC), and Russell T. Jones, Ph.D., of Virginia Tech University
(VCU). Dr. Naturale is a traumatic stress specialist with 25 years of
experience in health/mental health administration. Dr. Jones is a professor
of psychology at VCU and a clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma
psychology. His areas of expertise are natural and technological disasters
as well as interpersonal violence.
SAMHSA DTAC
encourages participation by:
- Behavioral health, public
health, and other professionals involved in emergency
management/disaster response activities
- Those who are interested in
learning more about working with children and youth following a
disaster
- Those who need a refresher
about disaster response issues specific to this population.
If you have questions
or need additional information, please contact Lori McGee at 240-515-8414
or lori.mcgee@icfi.com. We would
appreciate your thoughts on this podcast, or suggestions for future
podcasts/webinars. Please send feedback to dtac@samhsa.hhs.gov.
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