Workshop Name: |
Ready, Willing & Able: Advances in Psychosocial Response to Crisis, Emergencies, and Disasters |
Description: |
This workshop is designed specifically for professionals who want to update and strengthen their abilities to effectively support members of the public and peers in the workplace facing the extreme stress of a crisis event or disaster. This workshop will draw on the many lessons learned from peer support and disaster response from events such as Dawson College, 9/11, Virginia Tech, Hurricane Katrina and SARS. Four major models of psychosocial interventions for survivors and responders will be reviewed, including Safety Function Action (SFA), Psychological First Aid (PFA), Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA) model. The workshop will introduce SFA as a framework for integrating the best practices and lessons learned from PFA, NOVA, CISM and the Canadian standards of emergency management. Workshop participants will also gain practical information on team well-being and resilience from current research in traumatic stress, as well as from the fields of neuroscience, sports psychology and risk and emergency management. This will be a unique opportunity to connect with colleagues working with similar challenges and to build professional networks. Please note that this workshop can be presented on-site and customized to meet the specific needs of your organization |
Fee: |
$278 (HST included) |
Date: |
February 3rd & 4th, 2012 |
Instructor(s): |
Ted Bober, MSW, RSW Ted currently works at the Ontario Medical Association’s Physician and Professionals Health Program with health professionals experiencing significant stress, mental health or substance-use related problems. On a part-time basis he is the Clinical Coordinator of Pearson International Airport’s Crisis Response Team and a clinical and wellness advisor to Health Canada’s National Psycho-Social Emergency Response Team. Ted has been a part of the response efforts to numerous crises, emergencies and major events including airline disasters, the terrorist attacks in New York, and the SARS crisis. He has presented workshops in Canada and the US. Ted is a co-author of peer reviewed articles and the book In the Line of Fire: Trauma in the Emergency Services published by Oxford University Press.
John has been a front-line firefighter for over 25 years, and has also worked as a trauma counsellor for the last decade. John has led hundreds of debriefings and interventions to corporations and first-responders alike. Larger scale incidents include the terrorist attacks in New York after 9/11, SARS in Toronto, and most recently H1N1 in Ontario. John is currently on disaster health teams For Health Canada, Greater Toronto Airport Authority, Tema Conter, and Emergency Measures of Ontario. John frequently presents at government and private sector conferences on the subject of Traumatic Stress and has co-authored several articles on PTSD and firefighting. Alan Dick MSW, RSW Alan currently works as a SW in General Medicine and CrCU at Sunnybrook. Secondarily, He is Supervisor of the Psychosocial Health Team, part of the Ontario’s Emergency Medical Assistance Team (EMAT). Alan has been involved in at least 20 hospital disaster exercises over the last 5 years as either an organizer or responder. He was involved or responded to 9/11, SARS and the First Nations Kashechewan E Coli evacuation. Alan is a member of several psychosocial response planning committees at both the municipal and federal levels. His interest is the psychosocial response role hospitals play in major mass casualty events.
Deane is the Manager of Emergency Management Systems
for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority at Toronto Pearson International
Airport. She is responsible for the Airport's Emergency Management Program and
is the Administrative Director for the Pearson Crisis Support Team and the
Family Support Program.
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