Yale CHATogether: Supporting Emotional Wellness During the Pandemic

February 18, 2021 at 12:00 pm EST

This year, Chinese New Year has been unprecedented. Yale Compassionate Home, Action Together (CHATogether) uses interactive theater to address emotional wellness and family harmony in our holiday seasons. We will leave you with child-parent communication tips and strategies. Moderated by Dr. Eunice Yuen, Yale Child Study Center. All are welcome. Free and open to the public.

Sign up for this live event using the form below. Registration required. Participants’ Zoom name must match the name entered on the form below. Participants should not share links. Participants will be sent the link the morning of the 18th. If you have not received a Zoom link by 11 am EST on February 18, 2021, contact Yale-China staff.

Presented by Yale-China Association, Office of International Students & Scholars at Yale, and CHATogether. Sponsored by the Yale Community for New Haven Fund.

About the Moderator

Dr. Eunice Yuen is the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Adult and Child Psychiatry Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center and the director of CHATogether. Dr. Yuen obtained her MD and PhD degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her clinical and research in children’s mental health covers from basic science on genetics and neurobiology to community-based advocacy, education and intervention. Prior to residency training, Dr. Yuen’s research focused on cellular and molecular mechanisms of emotional stress in synaptic transmission and plasticity. Dr. Yuen grew up in Hong Kong, moved to the US in late teens and now a mother of two Asian American children. This unique background ignites her academic interest in Asian American mental health and cross-cultural challenges in Asian child-parent dyads. Dr. Yuen is the founder and director of CHATogether. She leads a group of talented Yale affiliates to use drama vignettes as educational tools to promote emotional wellness in Asian American children, young adults, and parents.