Dear Constituent,

My office will hold our third telephone Town Hall tomorrow, Tuesday, March 31, from 4 pm to 5 pm, focused on Staying Calm: Resources for Coping during this Corona crisis. The town hall will feature licensed clinical professionals and experts from the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. 

Our experts will discuss strategies to help each of us prevent anxiety and stress from taking over: whether we are living alone, are families with children now home 24/7, are one of the many still going to work in essential jobs, or are among those who lost a job.

During the telephone Town Hall, experts will provide information on strategies and resources such as:

• Managing frustration or anger
• Taking care of our own well being
• Coping with children and teens at home
• Dealing with social isolation
• Various hotlines for specific stresses or problems, like the Peer "Warm Line," Crisis Text Line, Caregiver Help Desk, and more.

My staff is collecting information on resources and programs to help individuals and families manage. We will relay this information on the call and distribute it in an email and on my Senate website following the Town Hall.

The telephone Town Hall is tomorrow, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

To RSVP for this event, please click here.

Participating experts include (complete list will be sent tomorrow to those who RSVP):

• Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith, clinical psychologist, faculty at The Wright Institute, former Mental Health Program director at Oakland Children's Hospital  
• James Baraz, author of Awakening Joy and founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
• Senator Skinner

Please submit questions in advance via email, and we will do our best to have them answered during the telephone Town Hall. Please email your questions to this link by noon, Tuesday, March 31. Whatever questions we are unable to answer in the 1-hour time period will be responded to individually by my office.  

Those who wish to participate will need to RSVP by 12 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, March 31. After we receive your RSVP, a follow-up email will be sent to you with the call-in phone number and passcode.

To RSVP for this event, please click here.

Submit questions you have for our guests by noon tomorrow by emailing to this link using the subject heading, "Town Hall Question." You may submit questions whether or not you intend to participate.

Sincerely,

Nancy Skinner
Senator, 9th District