Somerset County Government: Somerset County Hope & Healing To Offer Disaster-Recovery Support Via Zoom Beginning Nov. 30

Press release from the Somerset County Government:

11/29/2021 10:17 AM

SOMERVILLE, NJ – Register for a new, free, disaster-recovery support group, which will meet for six sessions via Zoom starting Nov. 30, at 6 p.m. The goal of the support group is to provide a safe, online community for individuals who want to learn valuable tools for coping with their emotional stress caused by experiencing disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricane Ida.

Led by trained crisis counselors, participants will discover how to better cope with their grief, trauma and post-traumatic stress. They will learn how to navigate through their emotions by using a solution-focused and systematic method of healing in a supportive environment using a supplemental tool for mental health management titled “Unprecedented: A Disaster Recovery Workbook.”

Disaster Recovery Support Groups are part of the “Unprecedented” mental health recovery programs, which are sponsored by Somerset County Hope and Healing and funded through a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA ).

Click here to register for the support group. Click here to obtain a copy of  the “Unprecedented: A Disaster Recovery Workbook.”

Sponsors of Mental Health Recovery Disaster Training
The Somerset County Richard Hall Community Health and Wellness Center, NJ Hope and Healing Crisis Counseling (CPC), and the NJ Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services sponsor the “Unprecedented” programs.

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This press release was produced by the Somerset County Government. The views expressed here are the author’s own.