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#WeHealUS 2024 May Mental Health and Trauma Awareness Month CEU Presentations
May is Mental Health and Trauma Awareness Month. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Social Work and BHWELL program are proud to partner with the Illinois Light Initiative and others across Illinois to raise awareness around mental health and trauma.
Trauma, recovery, community all themes at 6th Community Behavioral Health Forum
Organizers of McLean County’s sixth annual Community Behavioral Health Forum set out to make it bigger and more accessible than in years past. Kicking off the event was Tara Powell, a researcher, behavioral health advocate and associate professor at the University of Illinois.
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Additional News Stories
Study examines pandemic’s impact on volunteer health care workers https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1230437780
How can we identify, respond to pandemic-triggered mental health crises? https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1887317023
Coping skills program helps social service workers reduce stress, trauma after disasters https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/801486
How the Journey of Hope program helps children who have experienced the trauma of disasters https://www.smartbrief.com/original/role-social-and-emotional-learning-after-disaster
Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/just-for-kids-a-comic-exploring-the-new-coronavirus
Many responders in emotional distress one year after hurricane in Puerto Rico, study finds https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/807893
Disaster Intervention Research Lab 