The theme for this year’s Great Plains Disaster Behavioral Health Conference is Long-Term Recovery: It’s Everybody’s Job. Adjusting to a virtual format, the conference will be held Wednesday, July 22, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Thursday, July 23, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
This year’s conference will focus on learning how to prepare and respond to the psychological effects of disasters and mass casualties. Conference sessions include disaster basics, a long-term recovery panel, disaster cognitive behavioral therapy (CBY), ethics in disaster work and cultural competency, and more.
The featured presenter is Jane Cage, principal of InsightFive22, an adjunct instructor at FEMA, and former chairman of Joplin’s Citizens Advisory Recovery Team. Jane will share the lessons learned from Joplin, Missouri’s recovery from a historic disaster event.
For more information and to register for the 2020 Great Plains Disaster Behavioral Health Conference, visit http://www.disastermh.nebraska.edu/conferences/Conference2020.php
Conference sponsors: Nebraska Extension, Bryan Health, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Omaha Metropolitan Healthcare Coalition, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Public Policy Center, Nebraska Medicine, Nebraska Emergency Management Agency.