Cheshire Medical Center issued the following announcement on September 7.
Following the success of the first two mental health virtual series, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH), is launching a third installment of its roundtable series, Heads Up: Coping Through COVID-19, in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The four-part series launches Wednesday, September 8, at noon EST, on the D-H YouTube channel with a discussion on the anxiety and excitement students, parents and teachers are experiencing as they return to school.
This third installment of the popular "Heads Up: Coping Through COVID-19" features D-HH experts and community members discussing the continued challenges and concerns brought about by the pandemic and the surging Delta variant and offer information, tips and techniques for coping and maintaining health and returning to “normal life,” with a focus on mental health in a post-pandemic world.
The complete “Heads Up: Coping Through COVID-19” lineup is:
Segment 1: Wednesday, September 8, noon EST: “Returning to the Classroom: Excitement and Anxiety” – featuring Angelica Ladd, the parent of two daughters who are too young to be vaccinated; Emmett Smyth, a high school freshman at Rivendell Academy in Orford, New Hampshire; Steve Beals, principal of Alvirne High School in Hudson, New Hampshire; and John Broderick, Senior Director of Public Affairs at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, who will discusses anxieties and concerns that parents, school administrators and students face as they return to school, daycare and extracurricular activities, and how to cope with the challenges of going back to school after spending the past two years in a remote or hybrid learning environment.
Segment 2: Returning to the Workplace – How do I do this again? Part 1 – Employees – panelists to be announced, who will address interacting with coworkers, the Delta variant, employer vaccine mandates, changing mask guidance and more.
Segment 3: Returning to the Workplace – How do I do this again? Part 2 – Employers/Business Owners – panelists to be announced, who will address decisions about working at home, remote, or hybrid, mask guidance, legal implications of vaccine requirements and more.
Segment 4: Mental health post-pandemic – Where do we go from here? A conversation with John Broderick – panelists to be announced, who will address valuing mental and emotional health, having open and honest conversations with youth about mental health, lessons learned from the pandemic and more.
Air dates for segments 2-4 are still being determined and will be updated on the Heads-Up website at https://go.d-h.org/headsup.
Original source can be found here.
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