Submission #21909 by Adath Israel Brotherhood - Cincinnati, OH (301)
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Mental Wellness During the Pandemic
Health and Wellness
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Adath Israel Brotherhood has organized and provided a webinar series dealing with mental illness, substance abuse and other related topics. This included lining up speakers applicable to each session and establishing a means for attendees to participate either via break-out sessions or via Q&A. Webinars were open for other synagogues/clubs to participate including ones outside our region.
1) “Quieting the Silence - Overcoming the Challenges Presented by Mental Illness and Caring for Our Community”
Date: 7/22/20
Number of Attendees: 66
Program Description: This was a 40 minute presentation by the director of the Blue Dove
Foundation Gabby Spatt covering the work of her organization in educating and helping people deal with mental illness and included her personal account of its impact on her own family. This was followed by break-out rooms for attendees to discuss the challenges of mental illness and how it’s affected their own lives and to come up with a personal prayer from each group. The sessions followed to some degree, HMV program format.
2) “Releasing the Bounds of Shame – Depression Anxiety”
Date: 8/19/20
Number of Attendees: 54
Program Description: This consisted of an initial presentation by the author of the book “Releasing the Bounds of Shame” in which he describes his life-long struggles with anxiety leading to depression and addiction. He related his own journey to recovery and the various avenues he sought to find help. A Q & A followed.
3) “Women Coping with Covid”
Date: 10/13/20
Number of Attendees: 47
Program Description: This was a joint program between Adath Israel Brotherhood, Sisterhood and Jewish Family Service of Cincinnati dealing with the unique challenges for women posed by the pandemic for their family and professional/work lives. The format of the program consisted of a panel discussion moderated by psychiatrist Gary Katz. The panel included marriage and family therapist Bette Levy Alkazian, social worker Leslie Brody and Wyn Garfinkle Hillel president at University of Louisville. Following a presentation by each panelist there was a Q/A session.
4) “Community Rabbis Coping with Covid”
Date: 2/18/21
Number of Attendees: 35
Program Description: Program consisted of a panel of rabbis in various roles including the Senior Rabbi Moshe Smolkin at Adath Israel, a pulpit rabbi from New Rochelle, NY, a hospital chaplain, a rabbinical student and the chaplain for the Cedar Village retirement community. Panelists all related their efforts to maintain religious and pastoral care at a time of social distancing and quarantining. Experiences related by the panelists were both compelling and revealing about how clergy cope with the realities of the pandemic including sharing some novel approaches taken.
Date: 7/22/20
Number of Attendees: 66
Program Description: This was a 40 minute presentation by the director of the Blue Dove
Foundation Gabby Spatt covering the work of her organization in educating and helping people deal with mental illness and included her personal account of its impact on her own family. This was followed by break-out rooms for attendees to discuss the challenges of mental illness and how it’s affected their own lives and to come up with a personal prayer from each group. The sessions followed to some degree, HMV program format.
2) “Releasing the Bounds of Shame – Depression Anxiety”
Date: 8/19/20
Number of Attendees: 54
Program Description: This consisted of an initial presentation by the author of the book “Releasing the Bounds of Shame” in which he describes his life-long struggles with anxiety leading to depression and addiction. He related his own journey to recovery and the various avenues he sought to find help. A Q & A followed.
3) “Women Coping with Covid”
Date: 10/13/20
Number of Attendees: 47
Program Description: This was a joint program between Adath Israel Brotherhood, Sisterhood and Jewish Family Service of Cincinnati dealing with the unique challenges for women posed by the pandemic for their family and professional/work lives. The format of the program consisted of a panel discussion moderated by psychiatrist Gary Katz. The panel included marriage and family therapist Bette Levy Alkazian, social worker Leslie Brody and Wyn Garfinkle Hillel president at University of Louisville. Following a presentation by each panelist there was a Q/A session.
4) “Community Rabbis Coping with Covid”
Date: 2/18/21
Number of Attendees: 35
Program Description: Program consisted of a panel of rabbis in various roles including the Senior Rabbi Moshe Smolkin at Adath Israel, a pulpit rabbi from New Rochelle, NY, a hospital chaplain, a rabbinical student and the chaplain for the Cedar Village retirement community. Panelists all related their efforts to maintain religious and pastoral care at a time of social distancing and quarantining. Experiences related by the panelists were both compelling and revealing about how clergy cope with the realities of the pandemic including sharing some novel approaches taken.
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