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IDMH Director Discusses Psychological First Aid In COVID-19 Crisis

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Allison Dunne
Published April 7, 2020 at 4:54 PM EDT
(from left to right) Dr. Karla Vermeulen, Deputy Director; Dr. Amy Nitza, Director; and Cassandre Surinon, Special Programs Manager, the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz.
Courtesy of the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz
(from left to right) Dr. Karla Vermeulen, Deputy Director; Dr. Amy Nitza, Director; and Cassandre Surinon, Special Programs Manager, the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz.

The Institute for Disaster Mental Health at SUNY New Paltz has put out a Psychological First Aid & Stress Management toolkit. The strategies are to help faculty, staff, students and others during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Amy Nitza is director of the Institute for Disaster Mental Health She says the toolkit, which appears as a 60-page PowerPoint presentation, is also in Spanish, with other languages to come.
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