Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this Wednesdays at the Center event, we hosted Eve Puffer, Wanda Boone and Amber Rieder to present a program they developed in North Carolina to provide mental care support to local communities.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health care and psychosocial support for families has been scarce worldwide, including in North Carolina. To help fill this gap, two Durham-based community organizations partnered with a team of faculty and trainees from Duke to develop "Coping Together"—a program to support and strengthen families that was adapted from a similar program implemented in Kenya. Coping Together is a virtual intervention that brings families together to learn family communication, problem solving, and psychological coping skills. It is provided by non-specialists, including community health workers.
Dr. Eve Puffer is a global mental health researcher and a licensed clinical psychologist.
Dr. Amber Rieder is a Global Mental Health Postdoctoral Associate at the Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.
Dr. Wanda Boone is the Executive Director of the non-profit Together for Resilient Youth (“TRY”)--the major partner for the Coping Together project.
This event was presented by Duke's John Hope Franklin Center, the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, the Duke Global Health Institute, and Bass Connections at Duke.
Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.
Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
In this Wednesdays at the Center event, we hosted Eve Puffer, Wanda Boone and Amber Rieder to present a program they developed in North Carolina to provide mental care support to local communities.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health care and psychosocial support for families has been scarce worldwide, including in North Carolina. To help fill this gap, two Durham-based community organizations partnered with a team of faculty and trainees from Duke to develop "Coping Together"—a program to support and strengthen families that was adapted from a similar program implemented in Kenya. Coping Together is a virtual intervention that brings families together to learn family communication, problem solving, and psychological coping skills. It is provided by non-specialists, including community health workers.
Dr. Eve Puffer is a global mental health researcher and a licensed clinical psychologist.
Dr. Amber Rieder is a Global Mental Health Postdoctoral Associate at the Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.
Dr. Wanda Boone is the Executive Director of the non-profit Together for Resilient Youth (“TRY”)--the major partner for the Coping Together project.
This event was presented by Duke's John Hope Franklin Center, the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, the Duke Global Health Institute, and Bass Connections at Duke.
Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.
Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
