Description
This two-part webinar is the second session of the series, Disaster Research Training for Children and Families. It is intended to enhance the infrastructure and to provide the skills, information and resources needed to conduct disaster mental health research with children and families. This session is made up of two 1 1/2 hour webinars, led by Randy Beaton, PhD, EMT, and Erin Moran.
Learning Objectives
Part One:
- Identify benefits of team building
- Understand the value of working as a team
- Understand the vital role that teams play in building networks and/or communities to accomplish tasks that have broad base support
- Develop capacity to conduct post-disaster research in with planned/timed effort
- Develop skills for effective team building
Part Two:
- Define "cultural competence"
- Understand the importance of cultural competence in disaster services/research
- Identify barriers to services/research in minority/marginalized communities following traumatic events
- Identify potential solutions to these barriers
- Discuss cultural competence issues specific to children
Intended Audience
Local Multidisciplinary Research Team (LMRT) members
Disaster Research Training for Children and Families Webinar Series
Session 1: Disaster Research for Children and Families: Universal Training Module
Session 2: Team Building and Culturally Competent Disaster Research
Session 3: Coping and Resilience for Youth in Traumatic Events
Session 4: Research Methodology and Program Evaluation
Session 5: Children's Disaster Mental Health and Child Mental Health Screenings
Session 6: Early Interventions and Psychoeducational Group Interventions with Children
Session 7: Disaster Research Ethics: Gaps, Challenges, and Team Sustainability
Format
The series of seven training sessions was held online, using iLinc web conferencing software. The initial Universal Training Project lasted 1.5 hours. All other training sessions in this series lasted 3.0 hours. Recordings of these sessions are available below.
Session Two Presenters
Randal Beaton, PhD, EMT, is a Research Professor on the faculty of the Schools of Nursing, Public Health and Community Medicine, and the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Washington. Dr. Beaton has conducted disaster mental health research with fire fighters and paramedics and has presented numerous trainings for public health and other providers on disaster mental health.
Erin Moran is an enrolled member of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes of Oklahoma. Erin is currently the Training and Outreach Coordinator for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB). She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Pacific University and is currently pursuing her Masters of Public Administration with an emphasis in Tribal Government from Evergreen State College. Erin is an active member of the Portland Area Indian Health Service Institutional Review Board.
