Sen. Booker to join HPAE, NJ Mental Health Association to launch training on coping with COVID-19 stress, suffering and trauma

WHAT: As Americans enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, HPAE, AFT and the Mental Health Association of NJ are partnering to provide opportunities for all essential workers to address the emotional and mental strain they have lived with while continuing to perform the essential work that has kept society functioning. Courses will include:

• Mental Health First Aid
• Trauma and Traumatic Stress
• Coping and Resiliency
• Creating & Providing Peer to Peer Support

WHO: HPAE President Debbie White, RN; U.S. Sen. Cory Booker; MHANJ Director of Policy and Advocacy Barbara Johnston; Ana Delgado, RN, BS, HPAE Local 5094 at Rutgers University Child Health Program

WHEN: 10 a.m. on Monday, February 28, 2022

WHERE: Join via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89491989360?pwd=VnhsNVhuQ2pyQ2lBNys2SDdzbFVMUT09

Training reported in this press release is supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number 5U45ES006162-30

Fore more information, contact: Michael Allen, (646) 436-7556