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Luna Medina-Wolf, EMDR Certified Therapist and board member of the Professionals United for Parkland, speaks about her experiences with trauma and PU4P's role in making sure everyone finds the resources they need to get help.

Dr. Judith Aronson-Ramos, a developmental and behavioral pediatrician and resident of the Parkland community, joined Professionals United for Parkland after she realized her community could benefit from her area of mental health expertise.

Dr. Anna Owens, Assistant Professor at the College of Psychology at Nova Southeastern University, discusses her areas of expertise within the mental health industry and her passion for helping children gain access to school-based mental health services.

Les Gordon, Co-Founder of Professionals United for Parkland, speaks about what compelled him to start PU4P and how he thought the Parkland community could benefit from its services.

As a licensed social worker and certified Thanatologist, Lisa Zucker felt the need to serve the Parkland community using her area of specialty, coping with grief and loss, after the Marjory Stoneman tragedy.

Tracey Rubenstein, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, talks about her personal experience with communal trauma and how it affects everyone in the community.

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

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Les Gordon goes through important steps to keep in mind when it comes to speaking with your children about a communal trauma that he or she has experienced.

Sometimes it is hard to broach the subject of mental health with your child, but waiting is not going to make the problem go away. Take charge, talk to them, and find a way so you can both communicate about the struggles you are facing.

Tracey Rubenstein, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, emphasizes the need to lead by example when it comes time to speak to a loved one about seeing a therapist.

Lisa Zucker discusses the importance of processing grief in a healthy way and dispels the myths that there is a timeline to grief and that its stages are linear.

Dr. Anna Owns offers her professional advice on how to support your child at school when it comes to their mental health.

Dr. Judith Aronson-Ramos discusses the misperception that those struggling with trauma need to take the prescribed medication. She reminds us that trauma care requires an individualized approach.

Lisa Zucker, Certified Thanatologist (grief expert) shares critical NEW knowledge about how grief really works. She tailored this presentation to specifically address the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting in Parkland, Florida. Understanding different types of grief and how what you might consider unhealthy grieving may actually be appropriate and adaptive is SO important to being able to serve your community and to not harm your clients.