Disaster 200 courses: 3 hour training seminars including tabletop exercises, each class size limited to 30 participants.

(201)Disaster Mental Health with Children: resources and services already in place for children in disaster settings, disaster mental health interview and intervention skills with children, developmental aspects of response to disaster trauma, working with parents and caretakers

(202)Disaster Mental Health with Special Populations: elders, disabled, mentally retarded, non-literate and non-English speaking populations and the challenges they face in disasters. Communication, interventions, and factors to consider in facilitating preparation and response to disasters.

(203)Disaster Support in Education Settings: Colleges, universities, preparatory schools, private and public schools produce a unique set of considerations in disaster support. Faculty, staff and students have a wide range of needs in the face of catastrophe with limited counselor to student ratios. Short and long term response strategies are provided.

(204)Assessment of Disaster Trauma Survivors: For clinicians providing follow up assessment and interventions with survivors, their family members, family members of deceased disaster victims, first responders and relief workers with clinical symptoms.

(205) Clinical Interventions for Acute Stress Reactions, PTSD and Other Clinical Responses to Disaster: For clinicians providing individual, family or group therapy with diagnosed disaster survivors, treatment strategies, theoretical considerations, psychophysiology of trauma, cognitive, emotional and insight based strategies.

(206)Organizing a Disaster Mental Health Response: for clinical/administrative personnel who will serve as incident command officer or operations officer within their mental health agency in the immediate and longer term response to a local, state or federal disaster. How to develop and use the regional all hazards disaster mental health plan, integrate services with hospitals, EAPs, emergency operations and relief agencies as well as local community resources. Planning, mobilization protocols, natural and human caused disasters, mass casualty response and participation in drills.

(207) Disaster Mental Health in Quarantine and Pandemic Events: General overview of disaster mental health applications in this unique situation, research from the SARs Toronto experience and options for pandemic mental health issues.

(208) Disaster Support Counseling for Faith Based Ministries: (4 hours): Prepares volunteers for the emotional side of relief work in catastrophic situations. Relief volunteers will learn how to support survivors, provide mental health referrals when necessary and offer spiritual support to culturally diverse groups. Disaster can precipitate spiritual crises in survivors and workers- how to recognize a true spiritual crisis and provide guidance to those in need.

(209) Building Partnerships for Disaster Response: a three hour course for agencies, schools, universities, hospitals, nursing homes and government organizations on building valuable partnerships for disaster response. Knowing who and what is available and how to incorporate them into an emergency response will save resources and avoid duplication of services and effort.