Video Resources

Lead Presenter: Candy TIAN Zhou – DIRECTOR, SOCIAL WORKERS ACROSS BORDERS

China is rapidly developing and many cities expanded to tremendous size. While people are amazed of the speed of development there are inadequate concerns towards risk management and security monitoring. Serious City Disasters occur and took away lives pointing to the hard fact that we are totally unprepared to respond.

Lead Presenter: Randy Linthicum – Director, Emergency Operations, Maryland Institute for EMS Systems Co-Presenter: Richard Ottenstein – CEO, The Workplace Trauma Center Co-Presenter: Erich Bonny – Regional Coordinator, LCSW-C, The Workplace Trauma Center

Learning Objectives: Learn about the Emergency Management Assistance Compact Learn about the development and delivery of a program to support USVI territorial employees four months post disaster.

Lead Presenter: David A. Middlemas – Professor/ Chair ATs Care CISM/Peer-support team, Montclair State University/ National Athletic Trainers’ Association

Athletic Trainers are certified and licensed health care professionals specializing in the prevention and care of injuries and medical conditions in active people. Athletic Trainers are employed by scholastic, university and professional athletic programs as well as the performing arts, industrial, hospital and clinical practice venues. It is not uncommon for the Athletic Trainer to be exposed to traumatic events involving the athletes with whom they work on a daily basis including significant injury or death.

Lead Presenter: Oliver Michael Barbour – Col Retd Co-Presenter: Peter Twomey – Commander, Minister of Defence

This presentation is designed to give Government and NGOs providers the knowledge and skills they need to manage behavioral emergencies and respond to crisis situations in the field. It will be presented with a professional PowerPoint and will allow for questions. We will give a short overview of the Irish Naval Service Operation in the Mediterranean Sea, dealing with the migrants from Syria.

Lead Presenter: Adrian O’Grady

Station Officer/Psychotherapist/Acc. EMDR Practitioner, Dublin Fire Brigade

Present a new idea of bringing families in early to the CISM process

ICISF World Congress Lead Presenter: Johanna O’Flaherty – Psychologist, Crisis Manager, J.F. Recovery, LLC Prior to the Las Vegas shooting I had the privilege of training over 200 first responders on the CISM protocols. Multiple teams were mobilized in the immediate aftermath and worked very efficiently with MHPs and other responders from outside areas. Lessons learned is that it is imperative that we’re all working from the same page and philosophy in the aftermath of a disaster.

ICISF World Congress Lead Presenter: Paul Isaak – Staff Sergeant, Winnipeg Police Service In the span of eleven months my father-in-law died after an aggressive battle with cancer, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor identified as a rare presentation of leukemia, and my mother-in-law was murdered in her home by a stranger. Using the vehicle of personal story, I will challenge the attendee to consider their goals and objectives in trauma care.

ICISF 15th World Congress Presenter: Jeff Buchanan – Deputy Fire Chief, Clark County Fire Department Details of the deployment and lessons learned from the October 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, NV