Parenting and educating young people during a pandemic is both joyful and challenging.
In this program, Dr. Magna Dias and Dr. Peter Morgan will address approaches that parents, caregivers and educators can take to support youth, including strategies to promote resilience, resourcefulness and create environments that facilitate a sense of belonging.
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They will also address the risks of excessive pressure to succeed and countering helicopter parenting, as well as how we can provide trauma-informed approaches to supporting and educating our youth.
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About Dr. Magna Dias:
Magna Dias is the Chair of Pediatrics at Bridgeport Hospital and the Regional Medical Director for Inpatient Pediatric Services at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. In this role, she is working to strengthen the care signature of Yale Children’s across the network. Prior to this role, she worked for CHOP for 20 years in various settings including as medical director at several community pediatric hospitalist programs. She also founded CHOP’s pediatric urgent care network. She is the immediate past president of the Society for Pediatric Urgent Care. She has been a pediatric hospitalist since 1999.
Outside the hospital, Magna enjoys spending time with her 2 young adult children and her husband who is also a pediatrician. As a family, they train in Tang Soo Do and are all black belts. She also enjoys cooking, traveling, and reading.
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