Not until 1989 did the Red Cross officially recognize a need for a systematic and organized plan for the mental health needs of disaster survivors. Over the next decade, the Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Services program has developed and evolved to assist both disaster victims and the Red ...
摘要: Focuses on the American Red Cross (ARC) Disaster Mental Health Services (DMHS) program. Use of a multidisciplinary approach to deliver crisis intervention; Use of the model as a response to Hurricane Andrew in 1992; Primary aim and priorities of DMHS....
Since then, I've become certified in areas such as disaster health services, shelter operations, damage assessment, family services, and mass care. When tornadoes hit central Arkansas in January 1999 and in April 2000, I served as a Red Cross nurse, assessing the health status of families liv...
Johnson Controls announced the Johnson Controls Foundation's pledge of $1 million to the American Red Cross Annual Disaster Giving Program.
Sphere Handbook: Health Services Chapter 4 of the online Sphere Handbook sets minimum standards, indicators, & guidance for providing health services in disasters. Green Cross Foundation Home page of trauma therapists who volunteer to assist disaster victims and those who support them. Disaster Mental...
"However, people would stay in the tents, and would not like to speak and play together," he said. Noticing that villagers, particularly children, were avoiding interaction, Song Yao, head of the psychological relief team from the Sichuan Branch of the Red Cross Society of China, and his ...
Deutsche Post DHL Group, the world’s leading mail and logistics services provider, entered into a Cooperation Agreement with the Colombian Red Cross to enable DHL’s Disaster Response Team (DRT) to provide logistics support during future disaster recovery operation in Colombia....
The department of health and human services and Public health service played an important role in the health and medical response. One hundred and sixty-seven persons were assigned to Disaster Medical Assistance Teams and a Medical Support Team to support the response in New York and remain in ...
If your missing loved one is elderly, has medical or mental health needs worsened by the disaster, doesn’t speak English or has a disability, contact your local Red Cross chapter to file an emergency welfare inquiry. If you lived with your missing loved one but were separated during ...
Local Social Capital, Disaster Housing Damage, and Mental Health: Insights from Hurricane Harvey https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21568693241290307 The role of community leadership in building community adaptive capacity to coastal hazards – Insights from neighborhood networks in Semarang, Indonesia...