March 2020
WEBINAR | Effective Strategies for a Graceful Transition into Home Learning
As schools shut down across the nation (and around the world) in an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19, we understand the unique challenges and adjustments that you’re facing. More and more of you are opening up about your feelings of overwhelm as you balance your professional life with your child’s education and well-being needs.
WEBINAR | Examining the power of positive emotions, relationships, and what is going well from infancy to adolescence and adulthood—event when things are not going well
John K. Coffey, PhD, MSW, is an Arnold Gesell Visiting Scholar in Parent and Child Development at the Yale Child Study Center and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Sewanee: The University of the South. Building off of his background as a children’s therapist, his research focuses on understanding and promoting resiliency and well-being from infancy into adulthood by examining emotional experiences and relationships.
► Launch of the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan | United Nations
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
On 25 March, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will launch a COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan. The Secretary-General will be joined by the UN’s Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock, WHO Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore (See video time point 11:50 for UNICEF plan).
At a joint virtual press briefing, Secretary-General António Guterres, UN Humanitarian Coordinator Mark Lowcock, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, launched a $2 billion coordinated global humanitarian response plan, to fight COVID-19 in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries in a bid to protect the millions most at risk.
(44:25, ENG)
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