Available Now: [Podcast] Cultural Awareness: Children and Youth in Disasters

Available Now: [Podcast] Cultural Awareness: Children and Youth in Disasters

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.

Watch or listen to the podcast.

You may download the slides and the transcript by visiting the SAMHSA DTAC webinar page.

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.