Video Resources

Presenter: Roy E. Cox, Jr. – Retired District Chief City of Pittsburgh EMSOperation Director Pittsburgh CISM, Adjunct Faculty Point Park University, Adjunct Faculty Center for Emergency Medicine University of Pittsburgh, Adjunct Faculty CCAC, Paramedic HHS PA1 DMAT, Co-Presenter: Jenifer A. Swab – Training Coordinator, Ross/West View EMS Co-Presenter: Sheila G. Roth – Professor, Social Work Department and Member Pittsburgh CISM, Carlow University

Lead Presenter: Cheng Lee – Vice Chairman Medical Board (Clinical), Institute of Mental Health Co-Presenter: Jansen Ang – Asst Prof (Adj), Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore

A. NATIONAL CARE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM by Lee Cheng The National CARE (Caring Action IN Response to Emergencies) Management System (NCMS) was incepted in 1994 as a response element to national emergencies in Singapore. It is developed as a home-front system to provide psychological inputs in the management of a crisis and the first line of psychological and emotional support to cushion and mitigate the impact of the trauma in a crisis.

ICISF World Congress Lead Presenter: Melissa R. Hyatt – Vice President for Security, Johns Hopkins Medicine & Johns Hopkins University

University campuses and hospital settings present a unique set of challenges for both first responders and on-site security officers. This presentation will describe some of the elements that often make responses in those settings challenging as well as offer mitigation strategies to assist in planning and response.

ICISF World Congress Lead Presenter: Steven J. Thomas – Lieutenant, Anne Arundel County Police

Learning Objectives: Participants will understand how the Critical Crisis Action Plan was developed during the active incident. Participants will understand the conflict between an active criminal investigation and the need to assist those after a traumatic event.

Lead Presenter: C. Dwight Bain – Nationally Certified Counselor, The LifeWorks Group

Media can make a crisis incident better or they can unknowingly create secondary traumatic stress to a community. Learning how to partner with Media to stabilize people after a community crisis follows a proven rapid response approach to bring calm after a critical incident.

Lead Presenter: John Durkin – Psychologist The ‘medical model’ so beloved of psychiatry and clinical psychology has long been upheld as the most authoritative explanation of mental disorder. It comprises techniques amenable to a professional elite, drug treatments only delivered by medical doctors and psychiatrists and a lexicon of medico-statistical jargon to justify its expert status.

Presenter: Jeffrey T. Mitchell, PhD, CCISM