Webinar: COVID-19 Responses: Challenges and Strengths in Indigenous Communities
The International Council of Psychologists is pleased to offer an important 60-minute free webinar.
The inaugural presentation in this webinar series will focus on indigenous populations who are often marginalized in countries and regions around the world. Speakers from Brazil and the United States will address the challenges that indigenous peoples in their countries and regions have faced, as well as the strengths and steps that indigenous peoples are taking to address the physical and social-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information about this event, please contact webinar chair Andrew Simon, PhD, PsyD, at andrew.simon@shu.edu.
Featured speakers:
Hilary Weaver is Associate Dean at the University of Buffalo and a member of the American Indian Lakota tribe.
Fernando Pessoa is head of the Secretariat of Indigenous Health of the Brazilian Ministry of Health
Registration is required. To register: icp.web.org/icp-webinars
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CoNGO Notes:
This event was recommended by the NGO Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, For more information about the Committee, including how to become a member, visit facebook.com/NGOCoRIP/ and inquire from its chair, Roberto Borrero, at indigenous.committee@gmail.com.