NYAPRS Note: Register now for two STAR center events coming up next week, one webinar and one event in Washington, DC. Our friends at STAR are offering unique content that addresses the social and structural elements of behavioral health and how to tackle the most challenging aspects of well-being.
Upcoming Webinar:
Title: STAR Center Interview with Gilberto Romero, PHK: A Public Health Approach to Mental Health
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Time: 2– 3:30 p.m. ET
Presenter: Gilberto Romero, PHK;
Description:
Join us for a STAR Center Interview, featuring Gilberto Romero, PHK from Santa Cruz, New Mexico. Mr. Romero has a long history of mental health advocacy and hosted a radio program in New Mexico on mental health awareness for 11 years. Mr. Romero has a wide range of expertise on mental health policy issues including education, public awareness campaigns, media, community services, peer support, homelessness, criminal justice issues, cultural diversity, discrimination and social exclusion, and co-occurring disorders.
Upcoming Event:
Title: Wounded Places: Confronting Childhood PTSD in America’s Shell-Shocked Cities
Date: Thursday, July 16, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Location: St. Elizabeth’s Hospital – Auditorium
1100 Alabama Avenue Southeast
Washington, DC 20032
The Trauma Informed DC Initiative and the ACEs Connection Network proudly present: Wounded Places: Confronting Childhood PTSD in America’s Shell-Shocked Cities, a film screening and community discussion.
Too many of our children, especially children of color in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, experience adversity, violence, neglect and other forms of trauma and show symptoms similar to PTSD—except there is no ‘post.’ Traveling to Philadelphia and Oakland, this 40-minute episode chronicles the stories of children shaken by violence and adversity and asks not “What’s wrong with you?” but “What happened to you?” and how can traumatized children and neighborhoods heal?
St. Elizabeth’s can be accessed via the Congress Heights metro station. Admission is free, but please RSVP via Eventbrite!
Event Schedule:
5:30 p.m. Welcome, registration & refreshments
5:50 p.m. Purpose: Trauma Informed DC Initiative
6:00 p.m. Showing of Wounded Places
6:45 p.m. Sponsor’s Response
7:00 p.m. Open Community Discussion
7:25 p.m. Next Steps & Closing
Community co-sponsors include: Community Connections, Green Door, St. Elizabeth’s Office of Community Affairs and Volunteer Services and Office of Consumer Affairs, and University Legal Services.
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The STAR Center is funded by a grant from the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.