This panel will discuss VOICES work over the past 15 years with 9/11 families, responders and survivors. Panelists will summarize the long-term needs and roads to resilience.
Strategies for Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress After a Disaster
April Naturale, Ph.D. Traumatic Stress Specialist and Senior Technical Specialist ICF International
This session will identify secondary traumatic stress (STS) and differentiate it from other types of distress responses, describe the psychological mechanisms that are triggered in the body/brain and introduce several evidence-informed strategies for helping avoid STS as well as decreasing symptoms when they do arise.
Learning to Apply the Brakes Before Accelerating: Emotion Regulation to Reduce the Effects of Trauma
This workshop will discuss traumatic responses and the mechanisms of emotion regulation. The presenters will demonstrate simple, easy-to-execute techniques to help persons regulate emotionally before moving forward to resolve trauma.
Clarification about the Reauthorization of the Zadroga Act: Persisting Trends in Physical and Mental Health Treatment
John Feal Founder and President, FealGood Foundation
Bonnie Gordic, Psy.D Mental Health Director, Rutgers World Trade Center Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence
Priyanka Upadhyaya Psy.D Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Instructor World Trade Center Environmental Health Center - Bellevue Hospital
WTCHP professionals working at the clinical centers will discuss outreach efforts, medical and mental health treatment for responders and survivors. Panelists will also discuss the impact of the reauthorization of the Zadroga Act.
Paul Miller First Responder Coordinator, Disaster and Terrorism Branch
NJ DHS - Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Retired Captain, NJ State Police
The work of first responders (typically but not exclusively law enforcement officers, EMTs, and firefighters) is inherently stressful and frequently exposes them to traumatic situations. This presentation will examine these unique differences and their implications in providing crisis response to first responders. It will also review different types of crisis intervention services, including what can be used, when and how.
Children's Grief Across the Life Cycle: Fostering Resiliency
Connie Palmer, LCSW Clinical and Training Director Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss
Dylan Glasser Son of Thomas Glasser who died on 9/11.
This workshop will explore ways to support grieving children at different developmental stages. The presentation will also include interventions and strategies that foster resilience for those who continue to grieve especially during times of life transition. Joining the discussion will be Dylan Glasser, a Youth Facilitator at Imagine and the son of Thomas Glasser who died on 9/11.
How to Find Balance in Our Stressful Lives: An Introduction to Mindfulness Practice
This workshop will provide an experiential and conceptual framework for Mindfulness, exploring how the practice can facilitate responding vs. reacting to internal & external stressors. The role mindfulness practice can play in cultivating resilience and limiting the impact of trauma and of vicarious trauma will also be presented.
VOICES is proud of our unwavering commitment to supporting those impacted by 9/11, promoting efforts to make our country safer, and helping communities heal after other tragedies. Your charitable gifts make this possible!
