Child Study Center Grand Round 09.22.2020

April 07, 2021

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Bridging Culture and Generation Gaps in the midst of Covid-19 CHATogether Through Interactive Theater

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00:00Pleasure to present this work at my home.
00:03Let me share my slides here. One second.
00:15Alright, so in the next hour or so,
00:19my colleague and I will be introducing
00:22you yell chat together the acronym Stand
00:27for Compassionate Home Action together.
00:30This is a Co-op, diversity mental health
00:32movement that we started about a year ago,
00:35but during the pandemic we have
00:38been expanding quite a bit.
00:40Now let me introduce what are the
00:43thinking an calling behind this.
00:45It started me as an Asian American child
00:48psychiatry training and a group of very
00:51talented colleague who are passionate
00:53to do something for the Asian Americans.
00:56They include yell undergraduate students,
00:59graduate students, medical students,
01:02international students,
01:03and scholar inside and outside of Yale.
01:08As you all know, in this pandemic
01:11has provoked so much emotions,
01:13it began with the worries about
01:16our physical health and safety.
01:18Then he is the fear, anger,
01:21loneliness from the ongoing pandemic
01:23related injustice from the society,
01:26including the Daily News Reporter about
01:28Sina phobic attack against Asian American.
01:31And then later on,
01:33black Life Matters and many more
01:36from the society.
01:38Deep reflection make us ponder what
01:41it means to be a minority in this
01:44country and what it means to be the
01:47next generation of children growing
01:49up in this unprecedented time.
01:52As a trainee at the Yale Child Study Center,
01:56as we all learn from Doctor Stube,
01:59we have the mission to make this world a
02:02better place for our children and families.
02:06With all this statement.
02:07This is what we're trying to achieve as
02:10chat together through interactive theater,
02:13we want to translate mental health to
02:16a language that can be understood by
02:19all through words, images and acting.
02:22Particularly acting,
02:23we put action that we can do
02:26something for one another.
02:29This is also a culturally sensitive program
02:32in which we promote healthy child pairing,
02:36communication,
02:37and emotional Wellness.
02:38We want to break the stigma of mental
02:43health so that we can talk mental
02:46health in our daily conversation.
02:48Lastly, chat together.
02:50Want to promote intercultural empathy
02:53as we all know we started this program
02:57within Asian American minority.
02:59But we need your help today to Unite
03:03across minorities including the ethnic
03:06minority and minority such as LGBTQ woman,
03:10gender, who maybe all of these are
03:14particularly vulnerable during this pandemic.
03:18Ultimately,
03:19we can all chat together.
03:23Now with this statement I would like
03:26to introduce the outline of this
03:28talk which also give you a snapshot
03:31of what we do in the organization.
03:33So we have theater arm in which our
03:37students and colleagues use the personal
03:40narrative to construct skits that
03:43features Asian child parent conflict.
03:46Indeed,
03:46today we will live perform one of the
03:49skit to show everyone how does that work.
03:53Two, we have public education arm.
03:55We constructed Flash card
03:57comics and podcasts.
03:59The follow up the teaching tool
04:02teaching point from the skit so that
04:05we translate what we learn into lay
04:09language to the comment to the community.
04:13We also have a research on
04:15in which we translate
04:17the academic question that could
04:19be interesting from the skin.
04:22We follow up with qualitative
04:24study and survey.
04:26For we have peer support ARM.
04:29Some of our member and I serve,
04:32consultation and peer support to
04:34the local New Haven community.
04:37Lastly, we also have collaboration
04:39on we work with artists,
04:41see the people and I will introduce one
04:44of the pilot project involving a school
04:47based project and I will talk about that.
04:51And Lastly I would like to call for action
04:55and talk about our future direction.
04:58So theater arm?
05:00How does that work?
05:02A group uses drama vignette as
05:04a way to capture specific themes
05:07of child parent conflict.
05:10Each of the skate has three parts.
05:13The first part we have a member to
05:16act out the problematic scenario.
05:19Chill.
05:20Me as the moderate are our call
05:23freeze and I will go in and process
05:26as the perspective of child and
05:29the parent will go over what go
05:32wrong and what could be changed.
05:35Three, as if everything in life has a tech.
05:40Two, we will.
05:41We do the same skit after incorporating
05:44more effective communication skill
05:47leading to an alternative scenario.
05:50Now in the past we have a skid related at
05:54the topic about COVID-19 family conflict.
05:58Black Life Matters discussion within
06:01Asian family LGBTQ coming out in
06:04Asian family mental health and
06:06stigma and also academic expectation.
06:11Now this month September is
06:15national Suicide Prevention Month.
06:18Chat together theater present
06:21parents with all the solutions.
06:23Let me take this opportunity to introduce
06:27scriptwriters Karabakh, who is a
06:30master student from Drexel University.
06:32She has a lot of experience
06:36in community theater.
06:37She is our chat together,
06:40Skip production director.
06:43Alan Lee, who is a fourth year medical
06:46student and he is our acting director.
06:50Hannah Lee, who is an undergraduate
06:52student from Centre College in Kentucky.
06:55She is a social media coordinating director,
06:58so we put all our video public,
07:01eight public education material
07:04to the social media.
07:06Today we have two actors,
07:08Vanessa Shockey who is the US service
07:11members serving in the armed force.
07:14She will be acting as the daughter
07:17in the skit, teenager, daughter.
07:19Her name is Jessica in the skip
07:23and we have Alan will act as a
07:26dad in a skip while just to keep
07:29in mind we are not Oscar winning
07:32actors here but we're showing the
07:34point drama is not everything.
07:37Everyone of you can be the actor.
07:40Everyone can be the skit
07:42writer and the moderator.
07:44With that in mind stage setup Jessica
07:47is an Asian American teenager who's
07:49trying to talk to her dad about
07:53depression and wanting to hurt herself.
07:56The child is also being stressed
07:58by a combination of cyberbullying,
08:01having people sent racist messages
08:04about Asian brink over to the US.
08:07Being at home all the time and
08:09not being able to see friends.
08:12Parents are fighting and yelling at home,
08:14and a grandparent is sick from Covid.
08:18With this background that may
08:20get out of this lie.
08:22Ann,
08:23now we are at will live performance
08:27right now. OK, so Jessica and dad.
08:31Are you ready?
08:32Give us an bill yourself and give
08:35me a heads up.
08:37We're ready already
08:38alright? And everyone Are you ready?
08:41Red alright, so yes version one
08:48problematic scenario. Action.
08:52Jessica, what's wrong with you?
08:54I finally said the pill.
08:55Bottle comma just told me you think
08:58about hurting yourself and you're
08:59really sad and you want to see a
09:02doctor. There's nothing wrong with you,
09:04you only have Doctor was wrong.
09:05Oh my God dad,
09:07I didn't take those pills like geez,
09:09I what's wrong with you? I just I.
09:12I don't know. I've been really sad.
09:14OK, why you feeling sad Oh my God,
09:16stop yelling at me,
09:18Dad see This is why I didn't.
09:20I just I don't know why, OK?
09:22The last couple of months have
09:24just been really stressful.
09:26And yeah, for all of us yeah cool OK,
09:29but for me I don't know.
09:31I've just been really,
09:32you know, schools being closed.
09:34I can't see my friends.
09:36I can't go anywhere I like,
09:38I've been getting so much crap
09:40online from these random people.
09:42I don't even go to school with them,
09:45just these random people keep harassing
09:47me about like coronavirus and like,
09:49oh, it's your fault because you're
09:51Asian and delete Instagram then.
09:53I blocked them and I'm not gonna.
09:56I can't delete Instagram because that's like.
09:59I like it. And I, that's how I talk to
10:02my friends. There's something
10:04called calling your friends or
10:05zooming them. Dad, no windows.
10:07That is awkward. That's because you're
10:09awkward. Oh my God, there are
10:11said I have the weird kid.
10:12That's so mean when you
10:14say that I don't think you
10:16understand I'm just being real. These
10:18are your problems.
10:19These things I'm making with happy.
10:21So you need to just stop thinking
10:23about these Internet strangers
10:24and you won't be unhappy.
10:26You don't need to see a doctor.
10:28OK, just don't be unhappy.
10:30Dad, I tried to do that but it
10:32doesn't work. It's more than that.
10:34That's why I think I need help. I
10:36I'll tell you right now,
10:38just think about other people's lives.
10:39Like for example there are
10:41kids in China were like don't
10:42have their parents around.
10:44They have to do all the housework,
10:45nothing going work.
10:46All these jobs are paying very little
10:48money and life is super hard for them.
10:50You don't have to do that like think
10:53about that your life is so much
10:55better just to have some perspective.
10:56I know that like yes, I'm very happy that
10:59I don't have to like God. But dad, that's
11:03that's it doesn't work.
11:05That's what's wrong with you.
11:06You haven't tried it. I
11:08have tried it and it doesn't help.
11:10It doesn't make me happier to know
11:13that other people are suffering it.
11:15Like honestly, it makes me more
11:17sad why, like? Well, I think about
11:19something sad and I stop to think about
11:22how much worse it could be. I appreciate
11:24my situation more. Try that. Yeah,
11:26like I appreciate the house in the roof
11:29and not having to be in child labor.
11:31Yeah, there's nothing to
11:33be sad about.
11:34But I'm still, you and Mom
11:35are arguing all the time.
11:37You're always yelling at me.
11:38And like with Gramma getting sick
11:40last week, but she's better this
11:42week. She got shot. She got better. Yeah, I
11:44get that I know that, but I was still scared.
11:47It's just too much and I don't know
11:49how to but there's nothing wrong so
11:52you don't need to see a doctor.
11:54You don't need to think
11:55about hurting yourself.
11:56There's nothing wrong with you, OK?
11:58Oh my God, dad, I'm trying
12:00to tell you that I need
12:02help. I am helping you like
12:03I'm here to help you right now.
12:06We all love you. OK so you'll be fine.
12:08OK they just think about happy
12:10things so that you won't be
12:11thinking about hurting yourself
12:13and you don't even see a doctor.
12:15OK, just try to be more happy.
12:17Jessica alright.
12:19If you don't find, I'll try.
12:24Alright, freeze. OK, sounds a dad
12:28and Jessica were pretty upset.
12:30Obviously an less pause and
12:32talk about it now Jessica,
12:35tell us what was going on just now.
12:40I feel like my dad, he doesn't really
12:42want to listen to what I have to say.
12:44He just wants me to not be sad anymore
12:46and he doesn't really want to hear what
12:49I've been going through an I've been
12:50asking to see a doctor and he doesn't
12:52think that's going to be helpful.
12:54He thinks it isn't really
12:55like an illness or anything.
12:57So it sounds like you're
12:59trying to reach out for help,
13:01but that is not listening.
13:03Yeah, OK, if if you can put your
13:06feeling into words to describe it,
13:08but what would that like?
13:10What would that feel like?
13:13Well it makes me.
13:15Feel really hopeless?
13:17'cause there's things that he's
13:18been telling me to do, obviously,
13:20and that's the first thing I tried
13:22and I think I'm at a point where I
13:24can't really do this on my own and I
13:27need like a doctor or somebody to get
13:29me professional help to get out of this,
13:31because otherwise I don't know how
13:33much longer I can deal with this.
13:36So Sansa, you are really
13:37crying out for help,
13:39you need help right now, yeah.
13:42I see now now so now to Dad,
13:45you know, really upset?
13:47Just now to help but
13:49understand what was going on.
13:52I was just really worried about
13:53Jessica hurting herself like,
13:55especially after finding that pill bottle.
13:57I just really want her to try and focus
13:59on being happy because she has so much
14:01to be happy in her life or like I just.
14:04I just don't want him to be sad.
14:06Just wanted to focus on being happy.
14:09So you worry for her at the same time,
14:12you're trying to figure out something.
14:14Some solution to fix this?
14:16Yeah, I'm trying to help you right now.
14:18OK, well I'm a neutral observer here.
14:21I don't judge, but I'm trying to
14:23point out some observation and
14:25see what Jessica and you think,
14:28what you, what your perspective. OK.
14:30One thing that I notice at the beginning
14:33is sounds like Dad mentioned the phrase
14:36what's wrong with you couple of times.
14:39So you know like what's wrong
14:41with you in Asian language,
14:43perhaps in especially in Chinese.
14:45What's wrong with you,
14:47man, you're someone T or.
14:49The amendment I sounds like a pretty neutral
14:52phrase to go to means what is going on,
14:55but if what's wrong with you
14:58directly translate into English
14:59in my son's a little hurtful,
15:01perhaps I don't judge here,
15:03but like I we are here to
15:05wonder together so Jessica,
15:07like what is that phrase?
15:09What's wrong with you make you feel
15:12when that mentioned at the beginning?
15:15Well, that phrase makes me feel like
15:17I'm purposefully trying to feel sad like
15:19I'm doing this to myself, which I'm not.
15:22It also makes me feel like he's
15:24blaming me for how I'm feeling.
15:27Haha so so that sounds like you
15:30also interpret that as like her for
15:32like the problem is coming from you.
15:35Sounds like OK Ann and Dad like,
15:37we don't assume what we say is what
15:40you meant when you mention what's
15:42wrong with you, what was on your mind?
15:45What were you trying to say?
15:48Uh, so I can catch these.
15:50I might say, like yo man,
15:51Montay, and that that's what
15:53means what's wrong with you.
15:54Because I'm asking,
15:55what's the issue like I'm trying to
15:58communicate with the time trying
15:59to find out what's the matter and
16:02what's the situation with her.
16:04I guess I didn't know that
16:05to her when I asked her that.
16:07It sounds like I'm assuming she's
16:09broken or incorrect in some way.
16:10I'm just trying to figure
16:12out what's going on.
16:14I say I say so, so I'm glad we
16:17have this opportunity to discuss.
16:19Perhaps there are some cross cultural
16:21or cross language issue here.
16:23Anan that you can see that Jessica,
16:25you know that that didn't
16:27mean the way he said,
16:28and perhaps in my already make you
16:30feel in a certain way that upset you.
16:33I'm glad that perhaps we can be more
16:36aware of it and we can have a better
16:39way to communicate to one another.
16:42Now another thing that I notice you
16:44know Dad was trying to help Jessica
16:47to figure out some solution based on
16:50what you think that worked for you.
16:52Perhaps in the past,
16:54but it sounds pretty reluctant for for
16:56you to get Jessica for professional help.
16:59I wonder what is it all about?
17:03I
17:03just think that this is something
17:05that she can deal with herself.
17:07All of us are sad sometimes or
17:09like faced with tough situations.
17:11But I think my central part is being
17:13able to work through them and you
17:15sometimes just be able to grit your teeth
17:18and work hard through these issues.
17:19I've had times where my life has
17:21been going quite right and I just
17:23grab my teeth and work through
17:25it and change my circumstances.
17:27That's what she should do too.
17:29But the people have to go to doctors.
17:31Those people have something like
17:32seriously wrong with their mind,
17:34like they might have to take pills or
17:36they hear voices like those who are crazy.
17:38Jessica isn't crazy 'cause she's my
17:39daughter and there's nothing wrong with
17:41her and she doesn't need to see a doctor.
17:45Well, I see that's how you make the way how
17:49you think about it when we mentioned about
17:52going to see a doctor for mental health,
17:55well that's one way to see it but but
17:58at the same time I I notice initially
18:01that what brought you become so worry
18:04about Jessica was the pill bottle and
18:07as Jessica mentioned also the COVID-19.
18:09The bullying happening on Instagram.
18:11Those really negatively impacted
18:13Jessica and those are not trivial.
18:16Anne, and perhaps this is
18:18something like in our culture.
18:19Perhaps it is something really is not
18:22the easiest thing to reach out for help.
18:25Especially talking to mental health
18:27provider may have, you know,
18:29negative interpretation what it
18:31means to talk to a psychiatrist.
18:34Well, in fact you are talking
18:36to a child psychiatrist.
18:38I am one of the people there.
18:40I guess maybe we can work together,
18:43figure out some way you know we're not
18:45just seeing so-called crazy people.
18:48We are the people trying to help children,
18:51adolescents and young adults to help them
18:53to have a healthy growing development to
18:56do something they want to do in life.
18:59And especially in this pandemic,
19:01many children are metal and
19:03the lesson and even adult.
19:05They are really vulnerable.
19:06They have good reason to be
19:09sad and need help.
19:10I think that is a new learning curve.
19:13We can work together well.
19:15The same question also to Jessica Tool.
19:18How long have you been thinking
19:20about reaching out to mental
19:22health provider is that?
19:23Is there any hesitancy there too?
19:27Yeah, so I've been thinking about it,
19:29but it just I don't know.
19:31I just can't go to the doctor by myself.
19:33I need someone to take me and if
19:35I can't get my parents to agree
19:37with how we're going to solve this,
19:39then I don't know.
19:40I got really hopeless and thought about
19:42doing some really bad things to myself,
19:44but I mean like I hear from my friends,
19:47you know, going to the doctor can help and
19:49you don't always have to take medicine.
19:51I can go to therapy or something
19:53and see if that's going to help me.
19:56I see so it sounds like to Jessica,
19:59and perhaps, you know.
20:00There's something new to you.
20:02Perhaps it is also very new to that as well.
20:05And then as we are exploring something
20:08you we don't know what to expect,
20:10like what you expect to see a therapist
20:13or what to expect to see a psychiatrist.
20:16You know this is all new and generate
20:19you know and ciety and worrying
20:21what it is like all about, right?
20:23So so Dad as you can see Jessica like.
20:27Need someone to emotionally support her
20:29to navigate this uncertain T there.
20:33So Lastly to Jessica, if that is one
20:36thing you want that to change as we
20:39move on the alternative scenario,
20:42what do you want there to change so that
20:45you feel his emotional support to you?
20:50If he could let me finish kind
20:52of explaining how is feeling,
20:54or if he could be more open to other
20:56solutions because I mean if I end
20:59up hurting myself really badly,
21:00I think that going to the Doctor an
21:03even if going to the doctor is overkill
21:05and I don't need to go to the doctor.
21:08I still think it's better than doing
21:10these other methods that could end up
21:12doing something you know permanent and
21:14something that could really hurt myself.
21:16I just wish that he would open up his mind.
21:20These other solutions because it really
21:22helped me be less stressed about,
21:24you know, working through this thing.
21:27OK, Ananta dad, if there's
21:29one thing you can point out
21:31you want Jessica to change.
21:33So next time when she goes to
21:35you to tell you her feeling,
21:38what would you want her to change?
21:41I guess if Jessica could try
21:43like maybe if she could come
21:45and talk to me about things
21:47that would help in the future.
21:49Well, I guess you do that.
21:50I did you start by not interrupting
21:52her as much and trying to show
21:54like maybe I'm actually,
21:55I'm actually worried.
21:57OK, so that sounds like both of
21:59you want to make some changes
22:02to for better communication.
22:04Well, if there's one thing I can propose
22:07to change, perhaps that you know,
22:09and Jessica instead of using the angry
22:12and defensive mode to show your care,
22:15why don't we try having a more caring,
22:18worrying tone to carry out the conversation?
22:21You want to give it a try here.
22:25Alright, here we go version 2.
22:30Alternative scenario.
22:33Action. Jessica,
22:35what's happening with you?
22:36I found this empty pill bottle I heard
22:38from God that you think about hurting
22:40yourself and you're really unhappy
22:41and you want to doctor what's wrong?
22:44Well, I I didn't think Grandma was going to.
22:48That I didn't take those pills, I
22:51just what's wrong.
22:52Do you actually wanna know?
22:54Yeah, I wanna know what's going on.
22:59If I didn't want to
23:00know, why would I be asking you?
23:02See, I don't know yell at me some
23:05more 'cause I'm not good enough.
23:06No, I don't know. I
23:09don't yell at you 'cause
23:10you're not good enough.
23:11I'm yelling at you because I'm trying
23:12to make you better.
23:14Dad, I don't know.
23:15I I don't know what's wrong and
23:17that's the problem. I've just been.
23:19I've been really sad, OK?
23:22You have been sad.
23:24Yeah, for a long time now and
23:26it's gotten so much worse with
23:28the pandemic and staying home
23:29all the time and I've getting
23:31been getting bombarded with all
23:33these randos on Instagram that
23:34are telling me that it's my
23:36fault that coronavirus is here.
23:38You know the Chinese virus.
23:40Just delete Instagram.
23:41I don't have Instagram so I don't
23:44get these messages and I don't
23:46have those bad feelings. Dad,
23:47it's not Instagram's fault, it's
23:49the people. I'm giving you a
23:52solution. OK Dad, you're not listening.
23:54I don't think you understand how stressful
23:57it's been being home all the time.
23:59You and Mom are always fighting
24:01always yelling at me an with
24:04Gramma getting sick last week.
24:05Graham's fine, now dad.
24:07You asked me what's wrong?
24:10Do you really want to know?
24:11Do you really want to listen to me?
24:13'cause I don't feel like
24:14you're listening to me.
24:15I just feel like every time I
24:17try to say something you just
24:19try to tell me why I'm wrong.
24:20OK, OK, but that doesn't make
24:22when I'm feeling not real.
24:24Yeah, OK.
24:25OK OK I
24:26wanna listen to
24:27you. You about what's wrong.
24:29OK, I want you to be happy.
24:30I don't want you to have to go see a doctor.
24:34Yeah, but I think I need to see a doctor.
24:37Dad. There's a whole field of medicine
24:39that exists for this. It's not.
24:40It's not fake, it's not just for
24:42crazy people or whatever it's.
24:44I get really sad and I don't know
24:47what to do about it and so it
24:49makes me want to hurt myself and I.
24:51I don't know how not to feel this way.
24:56OK. And honestly, Dad,
24:59I didn't want to talk to you about it
25:01because I didn't think you'd understand
25:03or want to do anything about it.
25:04I told Grandma about it.
25:06Just 'cause I got to the point
25:08and it just came out and I need
25:10help and I don't know what to do.
25:12I
25:12know you trust Grandma a
25:14lot and gramma loves you a
25:15lot and she was worried,
25:16so that's why she told us.
25:19Grandma actually thinks
25:21you should see a doctor.
25:23You know, Jessica?
25:24I never really heard about.
25:29I just heard about people killing
25:31themselves because they got way too
25:32stressed or some other crazy thing,
25:34but it sounds like the peoples peoples
25:36words on Instagram are really hurting
25:37your feelings and this whole pandemic
25:39is really hard for a lot of people.
25:41Or maybe I haven't been trying
25:43to think by from your side.
25:45Dad, I don't know what's wrong with
25:47me and I know I have like a roof
25:50over my head and all those things.
25:52And even with that I still can't feel
25:54happy and this makes me feel even worse.
25:58I don't really get what's going on either,
26:00but I'm worried about you,
26:02so let's try figure out together.
26:03OK, like, let's make appointment with
26:05Doctor and I'll go with there with you.
26:08I love you Dad. OK.
26:13Alright, so probably guys
26:15this is the end of the skit.
26:18Thank you Vanessa Ann Allen, gay.
26:23OK, let's go back to the slide
26:26and continue the. Conversation.
26:34OK, so that was our theater arm.
26:38We also have public education.
26:40Our chat together, we grow.
26:43We produce flash card that to
26:46follow up the conversation teaching
26:49point coming from the skin,
26:51let me introduce we have a member name
26:55Griffey veteran who is a research associate
26:59at Yale Department of Evolution Biology.
27:03Besides science,
27:03she has a lot of talent.
27:06One of his talent is graphic design
27:09and also she also helped us to design
27:12our chat together logo as well.
27:14So my role as the trainee.
27:17I put a lot of concept that I learn
27:19from the residency and translator into
27:22lay language so that people in the
27:25Community can understand it an applied
27:28it to the real child parent interaction.
27:31For example here we have.
27:33There's just a definition of mentalization
27:36like imagine yourself in other other shoes.
27:39Be curious, nonjudgmental things
27:41through the lens of the other side.
27:45Using age appropriate language.
27:47So we translate this flash card
27:50and chill Chinese to Korean,
27:52and this is done by me and
27:56Jessica and Vanessa.
27:57So if any one of you have,
28:00like any other linguistic
28:02talent like join us,
28:04we want to spread this to other
28:07other community who speak
28:09different languages as well.
28:11So more of this,
28:13we have chat together comics.
28:15We use graphic.
28:17Graphic Madison as a way using
28:19visual storytelling method
28:21to illustrate mentalization.
28:23This is our other chat together
28:27member nearly no.
28:28Who is a third year medical
28:31student from University of Toledo.
28:34She is also a yell alumni really,
28:37really have the talent to combine
28:41Med medicine, an graphic design.
28:43So this is a comic speed between
28:46a modern daughter conversation.
28:49So Mother said you haven't been
28:52eating in this entire week.
28:53What is wrong, Mom? I think I'm depressed.
28:56So Mom tried to mentalize here.
28:59How could she be depressed?
29:01I don't understand,
29:02but right now I know my daughter is not OK.
29:05Maybe being a teen in this country
29:08can be really difficult and confusing.
29:10I should try to understand how she
29:13is feeling in order to support her.
29:17So Mom said,
29:18did I ever tell you how I felt when
29:20I moved to this country as a teen?
29:23I felt similar to how I think
29:25you might be feeling right now.
29:28So daughter also tried a mental eyes
29:30too really. What was that like?
29:32I was sad. I was lonely then too.
29:35I might not know exactly how it
29:37is for you right now,
29:39but I want to be there for you.
29:42Thanks Mom asunder heart for you
29:44back down to can we talk more?
29:47Of course.
29:49Show up this is a public education arm.
29:53Now we also have a research component
29:57in this program after we published.
30:00Culvert 19 skit on social media
30:03with her wanna follow up the
30:06question we want to see whether
30:09family harmony have changed after
30:11covid so we conduct a survey to
30:14understand family harmony scale
30:16before and after COVID-19.
30:18And here's the distribution within
30:20Asian American between 18 to
30:2225. So we have a research team here.
30:26Herman Pang who is a junior
30:29undergraduate student at Yale.
30:30Major in philosophy helping us.
30:33He is our chat together development,
30:36development, outreach, director.
30:37So he's helping us to recruit
30:40all the participants here.
30:42And Michelle saw who is a poster
30:44at Yale Department of Neurobiology
30:47and she is a research consultant.
30:50So here's some distribution as we are.
30:53This is a really in the middle
30:56of a recruiting participant
30:58here that is ongoing survey.
31:01Some of them are see they show
31:03increase of family harmony.
31:05Some show decrease how many
31:06some showed no change.
31:08So to follow up the question we want
31:10to see what may associate with each
31:13of the change we follow up with a
31:16qualitative study to do an individual
31:18interview on teens and parents.
31:22This line of study are performed
31:24by Allen and also maxou.
31:26Let me introduce Max.
31:27Max is our youngest chat together member.
31:30He is the Senior High School
31:33student from Choke Rosemary Hall.
31:35So together Max another member.
31:36We are interviewing the
31:38teens and parents here,
31:40so some of these are really
31:42preliminary data that we analyze.
31:44But we help us to guide our further
31:47future direction on where to look at.
31:50So when we asked participants about fat.
31:53Family harmony means to them during covid.
31:57They were able to identify that
32:00they were able to gain a new
32:03sense of agency with their family.
32:06They spend more time together
32:08feeling that staying safe from Covid,
32:11the unspoken care and peace and quiet.
32:14Those are the terms that they
32:17identify for family harmony.
32:19And as we are talking about cross cultural,
32:23family, people identify communication,
32:24language barrier, both verbal and nonverbal.
32:27Mean a lot to them and also lack of
32:31expressing feeling so many of the
32:34teens wish they could have a better
32:37conversation with their parents,
32:40with more talking about their feelings
32:42and interesting Lee about the conflict,
32:45we asked some of the participants to
32:47bring in an object that can symbolize
32:51what family harmony during COVID-19
32:53this particular participant bring in
32:56bubble wrap the package bubble wrap.
32:59To represent if you don't touch them,
33:02nothing happened.
33:02If you do a pop and explode,
33:05so there's some.
33:06They identify the boundary issue that some
33:09amplify some pre-existing issue there,
33:12so this is like some data.
33:14So far we gather, so stay tuned.
33:17We'll be able to show more
33:19results and conclusion later on.
33:21Now we also have our peer support
33:24arm some chat together member
33:26and I serve as a consultant.
33:29And peer support through the New Haven
33:32local community will collaborate with
33:35Yell China Department of Public Health
33:38starting pretty much since March this year.
33:41So this is one of the event we had
33:45for Asian and Asian American students.
33:48Don't let fear be contagious for
33:51covid event and we also have more
33:54event collaboration with China.
33:57Yellow Asian American Cultural Center,
33:59particularly for Asian
34:01international community.
34:02And address the anti Asian
34:04discrimination during Covid and in
34:07fact next week I'm holding another event
34:10for Chinese international student at Yale
34:13for for the reopening for 4th semester.
34:16One thing that I learn. We have a very
34:21unique population here in New Haven.
34:24The Asian International community,
34:26in which they really experience covid twice.
34:29One when they had the family back in in
34:34China. They have experienced kovid and
34:36they also have another covert experience.
34:38When I went to Spike in US all of the time,
34:42they were separated from family
34:44and they were also several.
34:46Alot of visa issue.
34:48They were forced to go back home or did
34:51decide to stay in the US and even if
34:54they decide to go back home now they're
34:57taking their online classes like 2:00 AM
35:00in the morning so so they really suffer
35:04a really unique set of vulnerability there.
35:07So Lastly,
35:08we have a collaboration arm.
35:11I am call collaborating with
35:13this gentleman here.
35:15His name is Jeremy Hunt who is a
35:18filmmaker in Hong Kong but also
35:22a yellow China Exchange Fellow.
35:24So here and I collaborate
35:27on a really cool project.
35:30We try to look at digital storytelling
35:33from school age teens to report.
35:36Express the pandemic experiences so when we
35:40create high school teens between 13 to 18,
35:43about 70 of them,
35:45they mostly are from Hong Kong
35:48and New Haven public school,
35:50but they also we also expand to
35:53other countries as well so we have
35:56them write a story on daily routine.
36:00During COVID-19 we breakdown the
36:02story into a small component
36:04an with Jeremy filmmaking.
36:06Variance he teach them how to create a
36:09corresponding shot to describe the story,
36:11then editing the video and have them put
36:14them on the log of the written essay there.
36:17So the goal of this project is
36:19to really how to how to help the
36:22children use the camera lens to
36:25show the view of the kovit world,
36:27and as you view from the video
36:29in which I will show you guys,
36:32as you view the video,
36:34you would go into the child's mind
36:36and how to see the view discover.
36:39Well there an my role would be
36:42helping them for self reflection.
36:45How did creating and showing the
36:48film would affect the way how
36:50they see the pandemic?
36:52Some of the respond here said it felt
36:55more we leaving since you get to tell
36:58people about certain issues encountered,
37:01another was spun.
37:02It prompt me to keep asking myself what
37:05makes life interesting while staying at home.
37:08I guess we're all asking this
37:11question to other respond.
37:12This is the people make up humanity.
37:15In society,
37:16we should be grateful for
37:18everything in our life,
37:20even the little thing.
37:22Now the second part of this project
37:25is to have the Hong Kong student
37:28and then New Haven student to swap
37:30the video and trying to mental
37:33eyes of each other video.
37:34What is that person is going
37:37through during COVID-19?
37:38Now keep in mind that this
37:40student they don't know
37:42each other. They're growing up
37:44in a very different places.
37:46Perhaps they speak English,
37:48but they may be like talking
37:50different native language,
37:51eating different type of food.
37:53You know, you know very different background.
37:57We are going to help them to
37:59have a we flip here reflection
38:01there in the way to train them
38:03to have this foster this idea.
38:06Intercultural empathy.
38:06So we go going to ask them how do
38:10you think the film makers feeling
38:13when they're making the movie?
38:15Some of the response at Happy
38:18content she is trying to show
38:20that regardless of location,
38:21this is still lucky to have a
38:24wide range of activity to do and
38:27a loving family to support her.
38:30Another respond sad about what
38:32is happening to people,
38:34how everything has changes, so little time.
38:38Sad, but not all.
38:40There is so much commotion revolving
38:42around lockdown that we tend to forget
38:45the little thing and be grateful for them.
38:48So this other respond and I want
38:51to take the chance to show some
38:54of these wonderful video here.
38:56K.
39:02OK, so this is created by the New Haven
39:05student. I be home school experience.
39:10Alright, so my whole school experience.
39:13Even sleep in a mic.
39:15I get up around 8:00 or 9 depending
39:17how I'm feeling then asserted day,
39:20but brushing my teeth and make sure
39:22things clean. Attica 15 minutes.
39:24Running my brother then minutes as
39:27I get home I take a deep shower.
39:30Once I'm done with everything after
39:32working on a school assignment that
39:35sometimes include zoom meetings.
39:37This takes 3 hours depending
39:39on which classes I have.
39:40If I have mouth, it takes 2 hours
39:43or less because I love my wife.
39:46A few moments later.
39:49It's hard to believe how much things
39:52have changed since the pandemic
39:55has opened many people's eyes.
39:57Many, including myself, have rulers.
40:00How? O we were grateful to the
40:02little things in our lives.
40:05Anti socials are missing the crowds.
40:07The students are missing the schools
40:10they used to complain about every day.
40:13Some are even saying maybe it was worth it
40:18waking up in the morning 'cause the bus.
40:21Many people are craving
40:23to come back to society.
40:25Is the crowd the festivals?
40:26The concerns determine spent to hang
40:29out with your friends at the mall.
40:32It's the people.
40:34They make up humanity in society.
40:38Of harnessed Lee learned a
40:40lot during this intense time,
40:42but most importantly African,
40:44that we should always be grateful
40:46for everything in our lives,
40:48even the little things the loves.
40:50Every vent your counter, your freedom,
40:52your health trees family.
40:54I mean everything,
40:55because everything has his hand.
41:04OK, so the second video
41:06is created by Donovan.
41:08He is a student from Hong Kong.
41:11My daily routine just pay up.
41:14Pay attention.
41:15Donovan intentionally change
41:16his voice and the video.
41:18Perhaps some defense mechanism will see.
41:23When I'm done then I'll just tell
41:25you what I usually do during Clinton.
41:28I live in apartment in Happy Valley.
41:30I love my parents.
41:31Another system I enjoyed the lock down
41:34for the first month and I'm just bored.
41:36Days of Week 613 Live past seven.
41:40So I have around 20
41:42minutes to prepare myself.
41:44I change my clothes,
41:46brush my teeth and eat some breakfast.
41:50My dad would drive me to school
41:53and I would have lessons as usual,
41:57then at break and lunch
41:59I'll go play football field,
42:02my friends and after pad 5 I'll go home.
42:08I need three sets in secondaries.
42:11It's all changed.
42:18Can you delete? Those are usually wake up
42:21at 8:10 and would get on my laptop and
42:24then my bed and wait till class starts.
42:28After two time I get finally get on my
42:31bed and brush my teeth and eat some toast.
42:41Right after school I would have
42:43soon after school classes that user
42:46and find Cape Town application.
42:50I'm a weekend out with an island 10:30.
42:53Fun Saturday without my piano lessons
42:56at 2:30 for one hour and at 6:30
42:59out on Michelle lesson till 7:30.
43:01Then I would spend my Sundays
43:05in bed on my phone.
43:08Those kind of hard keep tracking
43:09of all the homework and make sure
43:11everything was handed in after
43:13I've been able to adjust the online
43:15schooling was pretty relaxing.
43:16A lot of people say that they
43:18wanted to go back to school,
43:20but I do miss my friends.
43:22I wouldn't mind having them on line
43:24class for another month or two,
43:25so hopefully there will be no
43:27more cases under lockdown will be
43:29lifted so that we can go back to
43:31our normal walk through teams.
43:36What is the song keep playing?
43:42OK, so those are the video.
43:47Let's go back to the slide.
43:54Alright, so in summary chat
43:57together we are bridging the gaps.
44:01We are approaching the child parents
44:04operative gap in minority family.
44:06We are bridging the gaps that are amplified
44:11by COVID-19 as we are using this kit to,
44:14you know talk about a lot of the issue during
44:18COVID-19 Black Live Matters LGBTQ Anmore.
44:22Those are many issue that amplify
44:25during COVID-19 we are bridging
44:28the gap across the globe.
44:30We had planned to expand on the
44:34digitized storytelling program there.
44:36Now, instead of dividing shaming to
44:39address our differences, chat together,
44:42Pomo intercultural empathy as a way
44:45to respect and embrace each other's
44:48uniqueness through words scared and images.
44:51This is also a program unique in a way that
44:56we incorporate our action where we can cope.
45:01And we construct unspoken trauma among us.
45:05Now, this is some future vision that we have.
45:10We want to educate,
45:12intercultural empathy,
45:14anti prejudice, anti racism,
45:16through chat together interactive theater.
45:18We want to expand this model to medical
45:22education for the next generation of
45:25doctors including medical student trainees,
45:29an clinicians.
45:30This could be a community outreach
45:33program for school educator parents.
45:36And school age children now think about
45:39how we want to sustain this organization.
45:42Expanding from Co-op style to potential
45:45fundraising campaign school based
45:47fund and non profit organisations.
45:50So these are some future vision that we have.
45:55And Lastly,
45:56I want to acknowledge and thank you everyone.
45:59This is a growing list of chat
46:02together family that we're getting so
46:04close together throughout this time.
46:07Perhaps because of the Co-op organization
46:09we are all leaders, doers and thinkers.
46:12We keep expanding and we invite
46:15everyone here.
46:16If you'd like to join us to know
46:19more about it we all y'all.
46:22Welcome as I introduce along the talk.
46:26We have Allen, Griffey, Herman, Hannah,
46:29Cara, Max Michel, nearly Ramey, Vanessa.
46:33We are all located at different parts of
46:38the state and also internationally too.
46:43We want to say a big thank you
46:47for all the chat together,
46:50advisor from the Solar Integrated Program.
46:53It gives me so much support, encouragement,
46:56believe and seeing me beyond myself.
46:59Thank you all, doctor, Andre Martin,
47:02Janet Madigan, Michael Caplan,
47:04Dorothy stupid microblog,
47:06James Blackmon,
47:07Baltra bar and also to external
47:10advisor from Stanford.
47:11Doctor Steve Sadan Doctor Rona Hill.
47:14In which they started a vignette
47:17program and Stanford and really
47:19helped me to bring this model and
47:22expand even bigger in the East Coast.
47:24So thank you all for that and we
47:27have chat together collaborators.
47:29As I mentioned from Stanford Jeremy Hunt,
47:32who did the digital Storytelling store
47:35program and also Jessica Hanief from Yale,
47:37China collaboration.
47:38Juliana E.
47:39Who is the director of Yell
47:41Asian American Cultural Center.
47:43We have a lot of Wellness program.
47:46For the Asian American student,
47:48there, Libby Pier director of
47:50Health and Wellness from choke,
47:51and we have a lot of trucks
47:54Tilden on this talk as well.
47:56So welcome,
47:57thank you all for joining and we are
48:00going to have another event
48:02in choking next month.
48:03Magazine who is the medical director
48:05from the Ape EMS Association.
48:08So we are going to expand and have a
48:10talk at the annual apem submitting
48:13their expanding that to medical student.
48:16We have the funding support from Appa,
48:19Samsung Minority Fellowship and
48:22the Yellow Flex Fund. And Lastly,
48:25compassion at home action together,
48:28the home also refer to our
48:31Child study Center.
48:32This is a home for many leaders,
48:36clinicians, students and trainees,
48:38including myself as a family member.
48:41I am calling for action.
48:44This is an education outreach program
48:47that help us to learn from each other,
48:50no matter who we are, how we look.
48:53We can have a way to learn from each other.
48:58If you have any skit, ideas,
49:00translation, language translation,
49:01outreach opportunity, let us know.
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49:11Thank you all for your attention.