Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to Talk Coronavirus Economic Relief, Mental Health Impacts and Resources During Upcoming Tele-Town Hall

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On Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. HST, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) will be hosting her next tele-town hall meeting to update Hawai"i residents about COVID-19.

She will be joined by guests Darin Leong, an unemployment attorney who has worked with Hawai"i community leaders to raise awareness about relief programs available to employers and employees, as well as Sondra Leiggi-Brandon, APRN, and Anthony P. Guerrero, M.D., from The Queen's Medical Center.

Ms. Leiggi-Brandon is the director of systems behavioral health programming for psychiatric/mental health nursing at Queen's. Dr. Guerrero is a psychiatrist at Queen's as well as a Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Hawai"i's John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Together, they will discuss ongoing federal relief efforts to help Hawai"i as well as the mental health stress faced by many during this public health crisis and what resources are available to help those in need.

This will be the twelfth coronavirus-related live telephone town hall Rep. Gabbard has hosted since the first COVID-19 cases showed up in Hawai"i.

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