Hosted by the Los Angeles Training Consortium
According to research by Stanford University's Big Local News Project, 152,000 California school students are unaccounted for as of February 2023. One of the primary factors in this decline in the COVID 19 Pandemic. This presentation will discuss some of the ways in which the pandemic has impacted students' school attendance and engage participants in discussion regarding ways in which caregivers can support their children to re-engage in school
Presented by Donna Potter, LCSW
Donna Potter is a licensed clinical social worker and has been working with traumatized children and families since 1992. She has been an instructor for Duke University’s Department of Psychiatry at the Center for Child and Family Health since 2000.
In that role, she has conducted forensic evaluations of child physical and sexual abuse and neglect, has provided evidence based mental health trauma treatment to children and their families, and has acted as an expert witness for the courts.
She has also provided consultation to the North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse on issues of diagnosis and treatment of Reactive Attachment Disorder, including having co-written the clinical guidelines for assessment diagnosis and treatment of RAD for North Carolina and providing training around the state and in other states on issues related to attachment and trauma.