Community Health: Voices from Israel: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Your Children

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we are going to get started this is being recorded um hi everyone thank you welcome and thank you for joining us for this crucial discussion on how to talk to Children about traumatic events my name is Jenny burkovich and I'll be moderating today's webinar I am a general pediatrician and Director of Education for Joma if you're here you're probably familiar with J's mission to bring health education to communities everywhere as parents caregivers and everywhere as parents caregivers and Educators we often face the challenging task of guiding children through distressing events whether it's personal loss Community violence or Global crisis children look to adults in their lives for reassurance honesty and emotional support unfortunately the global Jewish Community has been dealing with unimaginable loss and Trauma over the last 17 months but how do we approach these conversations in a way that Fosters resilience rather than fear how do we answer questions when we may not do we answer questions when we may not have the answers ourselves to help us navigate these challenges we're joined by a distinguished panel of experts first we'll have Dr havasi a developmental pediatrician and medical director of Goan founded by Leading pediatricians Goan is dedicated to advancing children's Optimal Health development and well-being by transforming Community pediatric care and addressing behavioral Developmental and mental health issues their vision emphasizes Better Health Equity for emphasizes Better Health Equity for vulnerable communities aiming to create a healthier emotionally stronger and more resilient Society we're also honored to have ravit Jahar lahav and juli creno from early starters International ravit is an occupational therapist PhD in child development and is the academy projects and training coordinator for early starters International ulie is an educator and facilitator of change processes and vice president of eer mercy and development and Eastern Europe operations early

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1. 0:00we are going to get started this is being recorded um hi everyone thank you welcome…
2. 4:39um so thinking back sorry so thinking back of your uh 7th of October what did…
3. 9:22sometimes will say I don't know what will happen in the future I can't always promise…
4. 13:55Milestones so how can we cope with anxiety sorry I think you're seeing part of screen…
5. 18:35are becoming very um that are affecting the the daily function well this is time to…
6. 23:17atmosphere can be tailored uh to the kid and to what he likes and dislikes uh…
7. 28:00they resist and was going over and over and what we did as grown-ups is that…
8. 32:40um and the social connections that I think Julie also reminds it the place Fosters connections…
9. 37:18openhearted so yeah uh on this optimistic note we will finish our part thank you so…
10. 41:56um organizing it very um uh very an artificial way this is a very good option…

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