What is Missing?
 
In order to respond to the very real challenge facing the disaster response community and provide a more holistic approach to survivors, it is essential that we clearly define what is missing.

The three major emergency management response sectors are medical, security and public-mental health or psychosocial. Currently, there is a lack of philosophical, educational, and operational integration between these sectors.

What is clearly missing?

  Integrated philosophical and operational standard operating procedures (SOP’s) between three response sectors
  Integrated educational and skill drilling curriculums between three response sectors
  Integrated table top and ‘live’ drills between three response sectors focusing on disaster resiliency approaches
  Integrated annual national and international conferences between three response sectors focusing on SOP’s and disaster resiliency approaches
  Designing, developing, and sustaining affiliation between disaster relief NGOs and the three major response sectors.
Why We Integrate the Two
Acute physical trauma is normally accompanied by acute psychological trauma.
The most at risk disaster populations
(children, disabled, previous conditions)
require mind-body focused stabilization procedures.
Care-givers require standard operating procedures to care for themselves and each other on a daily basis.


ICDR News
ICDR will be opening a center to help healers and caregivers relive their bodies of the trauma they absorb during their work.
ICDR in affiliation with BCF is working with the Governor’s commission to implement a trauma response network that will help stem the current outbreak of youth violence.
ICDR travels to Haiti each month to work with partners providing psychosocial and medical assessments and recovery interventions to 1,500 children and their adult caregivers.
ICDR Events
Trauma Informed Care trainings in Florida
September-December 2011
ICDR continues to train strategic partners in Florida in evidence based trauma informed care practices to build Centers of Excellence for emergency response.
ICDR Delivers PFA/PTSM Training to State of New Jersey
October 2011
ICDR continues their emergency preparedness work with the State of New Jersey.
November 2011
ICDR and the Midwestern Trauma Services Network is hosting a 2 day regional conference on Psychological Trauma, Children and Communities: Current Research and Practice Trends Disaster Response and Recovery: Focus on Success and Resilience .