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Development of First Responder Training Curriculum for use throughout New Independent States (former Soviet Union) |
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Development of Assessment Tool for evaluation of Disaster and Emergency Medical Services Training Centers (DEMSTC) for use in NIS |
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Development of concept for web-based data collection and distribution program for DEMSTCs |
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Organize and lead EMS meeting at AIHA annual conference in Washington, DC |
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Develop, coordinate and implement a Train the Trainers course in Emergency Management in Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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Conduct site assessment and prepare report for DEMSTC in Minsk, Belarus |
For International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Direct IAEA Disaster Fellowship Program |
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Participation in the implementation of a Nuclear Accident Preparedness and Inter-Regional Harmonization Program for Eastern Europe ad the former Soviet Union |
In Collaboration with Harvard Medical School/Division of International Disaster
and Emergency Medicine) (DIDEM)
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Development of criteria for appropriate equipment and supplies for the US National Stockpile for response to civilian victims of weapons of mass destruction |
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Research project on best training methods of personnel in the skills needed for self protection and response to incidents of hazardous materials exposure and weapons of mass destruction |
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Development of a surveillance system to detect biological terrorism in metropolitan areas |
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Creation of an internet-based biological terrorism surveillance, reporting, and education system for physicians |
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Development of Assessment Tool and Program for evaluating the effectiveness of training activities in NIS |
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Consultation roles for the Domestic Anti-Terrorism Preparedness Program at the US Department of Defense |
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Consultation for environmental health and safety at the US Coast Guard |
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Consultation for the Advisory Panel for the Emergency Response Coordinating Group-National Center for Environmental Health at the Center for Disease Control |
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Consultation for the US Task Force on Weapons of Mass Destruction for the US Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Bureau of Investigation National Domestic Preparedness Office |
For National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network & National Center for PTSD
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Primary developer and content provider for Psychological First Aid (PFA), Psychological First Aid for Schools (PFA-S), and Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) for all hazards mitigation psychosocial and psychological acute stabilization during and after acute disasters and terrorists attacks under mandate from SAMHSA and DHS |
For Transcultural Psychology Organization-PLAN International,
Netherlands; World Bank-Washington
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Provide child and family focused clinical consultancy, technical assistance for program expansion of international disaster management, and psychosocial intervention development training methodology for the Transcultural Psychological Organization (TPO) of the Netherlands, PLAN International and the World Bank to assist with ongoing efforts to provide school, community and tribal based clinical and psychosocial interventions to successfully demobilize child and youth soldier survivors and to care for other youth exposed to psychological trauma resulting from armed conflict in Sudan, Burundi, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Eritrea, Afghanistan, and Nepal. |
For U.S. Department of Education; Washington-DC
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Consult to Department of Education-Office of Primary and Secondary Education on the design, construction and implementation of district-based templates providing school preparedness and crisis response and recovery protocols for the United States Public School system. |
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Consult to the Deputy Undersecretary-Elementary Schools & Director of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program and the Center for Disease Control Liaison on best Practice Programs for Preparedness, Crisis Response Planning and Recovery Post Traumatic Incidents in schools and their communities. |
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Grant development, lead trainer and technical consultant for U.S. public and private school consortiums awarded $20,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Education Safe and Drug-Free Schools PL 107-110 grant for Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans for School Safety Initiative. |
For United States Agency for International Development & Save The Children Federation;
Palestine-Israel, New York & Washington
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Design, develop, implement and manage systematic assessment, training and psychosocial intervention programs for NGO, Ministry and local mental health staff in Jordan, Palestine, and Nepal, to deliver classroom-based interventions (CBI) and community based traumatic incident stress reduction programs, stress inoculation and preparedness planning for youth impacted by armed conflict, identity conflict, community and domestic violence and traumatic incidents. ICDR, and its affiliate Center for Trauma Psychology, have developed these specialized youth-based psychosocial interventions, customizing intervention content and developmental approach to local cultures and utilizing local expert medical and psychosocial caregiver networks, delivering direct services to over 400,000 impacted youth between 2002-2008. |
For U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, New York City and Boston Massachusetts
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Scene commander for mental health providers at Logan Airport/Massport for surviving family members of passengers, flight crews and ground crews of American Airlines Flight #11 and United Airlines Flight # 175 post the 9/11/01 World Trade Center Attacks |
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International American Red Cross (Mass Bay Chapter) trauma psychology team liaison for ongoing assessment and support to the parents and children of surviving family members of passengers aboard American Airlines Flight #11and United Airlines Flight # 175 post the 9/11 attacks: 2001-2005 |
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Primary sole source provider of psychological services for a United States Government Agency, providing specialized traumatic stress orientations, post traumatic stress management groups, traumatic stress assessments and referrals for 880 eyewitness and Ground-Zero workers of the 9/11/01 World Trade Center Attacks: 2001-2003 |
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Primary child and youth trauma psychosocial/psychological trauma team for the Massachusetts 911/Fund and the Massachusetts Chapter of the International Red Cross providing design, development and implementation of psychosocial stabilization, recovery and reintegration initiatives for youth and parent survivors who lost family members on Flights #11 and #175: 2001-2005 |
For United Nations/UNICEF; Ankara-Istanbul, Turkey
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Lead Psychosocial Incident Command-Develop training methods, manuals, materials and curriculum to train the entire Turkish Guidance Counselor Association (1000 members) to implement an 18 hour classroom-based psychosocial intervention program (CBI®) targeting reduction of psychosocial and traumatic stress for the 75,000 youth left homeless from the two 1999 Turkish earthquakes. Working closely with UNICEF managers and the Turkish Ministry of National Education (MoNE) to train all the Guidance Counselors and Social Workers (SHCEK) of Turkey, conducting field visits to tent cities and demonstrating resiliency based stress reduction techniques for impacted youth. Between 1999 and 2001 the CBI® reached in excess of 30,000 children.
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