Promoting Resilience: Women and Girls Thriving Following Adversity
As this is a UN event you must register to attend live by Wednesday, March 10 through the NGO CSW system. This is a 2-step process. Click here to begin the registration, then wait for an e-mail from NGO CSW/NY to complete your profile. Once you have completed your profile, you can register for Mental Health event.
Program Agenda:
Welcome and Greetings: Holly K. Shaw, PhD, RN, Chair, NGO Committee on Mental Health
Nobody’s Normal; How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
- Roy Richard Grinker, PhD, Professor, Anthropology & International Affairs, George Washington
Overlooked Aspects of the Pandemic: Substance Abuse in Older Women
- Madeline A. Naegle, PhD, CNS-PMH,BC,FAAN; Professor Emerita, Health and Aging Policy Fellow, NYU Myers College of Nursing
Flipping the Script on Aging: Narrative Approaches to Mental Wellness with Women in Midlife and Beyond
- Nisha Sajnani, PhD, Director, Drama Therapy & Theatre & Health Lab, NYU; Cecilia Dintino, PhD, Co-Founder, Twisting the Plot; Mary Clohan, Writer, Performer, Drama Therapy student
Healing Grief with Guitars
- Miraculous Love Kids & Lanny Cordola, Mursal & Madina, Kabul
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CoNGO Notes: For more information on the NGO Committee on Mental Health, please visit ngomentalhealth.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on Drugs, please visit nyngoc.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on Ageing-NY, please visit ngocoa-ny.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on Ageing-Vienna, please visit ngoageingvie.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on Ageing-Geneva, please visit ageingcommitteegeneva.org.