You’re invited to attend “Child Victims of Hurricane
Sandy: Post-Disaster Mental Health,” a free workshop by
Elissa Brown, Ph.D., St. John’s University Professor of Psychology,
Executive Director of the Child HELP Partnership and one of three
psychologists who developed the 9/11 Child and Family Recovery
Program.*
Monday, November 19, 2012
3:30 – 5 p.m.
St. John’s University, Queens Campus
D'Angelo Center (DAC) Room 416 A, B & C
The workshop will include:
- Mental health reactions to natural disasters from early to late
childhood
- Risk factors for post-trauma mental health
problems
- Appropriate interventions: short-term and long-term
- Opportunities for intervention training and additional
resources
This workshop is open to child-centric caregivers, including
clergy, educators, pediatricians, librarians, mental health
professionals and other service providers. Please feel free to
forward this to others who may be interested in attending.
To RSVP, please email
childtrauma.sandy@stjohns.edu. For more
information, contact Trish Batchelor at the
Child HELP Partnership at (718)
990-2367.
*For the 9/11 Child and Family Recovery Program, Dr.
Brown:
- Oversaw trauma-specific mental health services (assessments and
therapy to children, education to leadership) delivered in schools
south of Canal Street
- Advised NYC Department of Education
- Oversaw trauma/bereavement-specific mental health services for
children of the firefighters, port authority workers, EMS and
police who died in the line of duty