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Community of Concern: Helping Teens with Daily Pressures and Stressors

Community of Concern: Helping Teens with Daily Pressures and Stressors

Parents, students, and educators are invited to an open discussion on how to help tweens and teens with daily pressures and ...stressors, and feelings related to anxiety and depression. Joining the discussion will be West Hartford high schoolers, community clinicians and school staff to share experience and advice.[+] Show More

Community of Concern: Helping Teens with Daily Pressures and Stressors

Community of Concern: Helping Teens with Daily Pressures and Stressors ...

New Elmwood Community Center Feasibility Study

Learn about the feasibility study underway by Tecton Architects for ...

WHPS/Community of Concern Webinar - Keeping our Focus on Mental Health & Wellness

we-ha.com presents COVID-19 Update

Replay with Boosted Audio A panel discussion presented by We-Ha.com ...

Replay with Boosted Audio

A panel discussion presented by We-Ha.com and co-hosted on the Neighbors & Friends in West Hartford Facebook page was held Thursday, March 12, at 5:30 p.m.

The event ...was broadcast through Facebook Live, and WHCi’s channel 96 and YouTube, and provided locally-focused news about COVID-19 and a question and answer period for the public. We apologize for audio problems in the Live version of this first-time event, but the sound quality is not a problem on the YouTube version of the broadcast provided below.

The program addressed the pathology behind COVID-19, how it is spread, and other pertinent information, including myths that have been proliferating.

Included was a discussion of the day’s headlines, including West Hartford’s preparedness and plans to mitigate the spread of coronavirus in the community.

Panelists included:

Dr. Nicholas Bennett, a pediatric infectious disease specialist who lives in Simsbury. He received his medical training at Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has his Ph.D. in virology also from Cambridge. His pediatric residency and infectious disease fellowship were at SUNY Upstate in Syracuse, NY. He has lived in Connecticut for the last eight years and was the division head of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center until last summer, when he took a break from clinical practice. He’s currently engaged in consulting and speaking work.
Registered Nurse Carol Steinke, representing the West Hartford-Bloomfield Health District. She has been a public health nurse for West Hartford-Bloomfield Health District for the past year, and prior to that was public health nursing supervisor for the City of Hartford for 13 years, serving as program manager of the Disease Prevention Health Promotion Division.
Representing the Town of West Hartford, Bob McCue, who retired as assistant chief last summer after 39 years with the West Hartford Police Department, currently serves with the town’s Office of Emergency Management.[+] Show More