EHF Mental Health Learning Network | Attending to Mental Health in Disaster Response

EHF Mental Health Learning Network
Hosted by the EHF Congregational Engagement Team and mental health partners Lynda Frost and Anna Jackson

The Episcopal Health Foundation invites you to take part in a Learning Community composed of a series of 75-minute sessions aimed at exploring how we can create connection and promote the mental health and well-being of people in our communities and congregations.

Attending to Mental Health in Disaster Response

Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Time: 12:00PM – 1:15PM CT

The second session of the 2024 Mental Health Learning Series will focus on mental health and disaster response.

Recently, many Texas communities have been impacted by a series of natural disasters that leave a long tail of recovery in their wake. Understandably, our focus tends to be on the physical impacts and addressing needs for safe housing, food, and other basic needs. But these disasters have significant psychological reverberations as well. This Learning Network session focuses on how congregations can be aware and attend to the mental health needs that emerge in the immediate and longer term aftermath of significant climate events. We will discuss trainings that can equip community members to attend to mental health after a disaster and how to access them, discuss what congregations can do to prepare to respond after a disaster, and share what some communities have learned from their past experiences. To deepen our learning, we’ll engage with special guests: Rev. Jim Liberatore and Debbie Allensworth from Mosaic in Action, and Dr. Kristine Louie from the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress.

REGISTER HERE!

Please contact Eric Moen at emoen@episcopalhealth.org if you have questions or concerns.

The Episcopal Health Foundation Congregational Engagement Team works with the Episcopal congregations in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas to deepen their outreach ministries engaging in building healthy communities.