The Keynote Address at the 2021 Advancing School Mental Health Conference on October 14th was on the topic: “Overcoming the Collective Trauma of the Pandemic: Creating Healing-Centered, Safe, Supportive, and Equitable Schools”, by Joyce Dorado, PhD, Director and Co-Founder, UCSF HEARTS (Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools); Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
“For most people, the coronavirus pandemic has been experienced as a collective trauma, with people of color and socioeconomically disadvantaged people (children, families, and adults) disproportionately bearing the pandemic’s adverse effects. The keynote outlined trauma-informed, equity-promoting approaches that can support schools to be places of healing, resilience, and equity for students as well as for the adults who serve and care for them.”
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