DCRTeam.The DCRT is composed of a collaboration of educators, practitioners, university faculty, and services professionals committed to providing information, tools, and resources to be used as coping resources in the aftermath of a disaster. The Disaster Coping Resources Team is an international team with members from the USA, Canada, Turkey, and South Africa.
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Established in 2017The DCRT was formally established as a Research and Intervention team by the Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling as a direct response to the increasing number of major disasters affecting communities locally, nationally, and internationally.
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Our GoalThe main goals of the DCRT are as follows:
1. Disseminate disaster coping resources to communities in need 2. Collection of data on existing disaster coping resources 3. Formation of Rapid Response Teams (RRT) to disseminate coping resources |
The Disaster Coping Resources Team
Dr. Brian Gerrard, Institute for School-Based Family Counseling, Stuart, Florida, USA
Brian has a PhD in Sociology, from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and a PhD in Counseling Psychology, from the University of Toronto. Brian is an Emeritus Associate Professor with the University of San Francisco. He helped develop the University of San Francisco’s masters MFT program and for 14 years served as MFT Coordinator.He is an experienced administrator and has been Chair of the USF Counseling Psychology Department three times. Currently, he is a member of the Board, University of San Francisco Center for Child and Family Development. The Center, co-founded by Brian, has for years managed the largest longest-running School-Based Family Counseling program of its type in the USA. Its Mission Possible Program has served more than 16,000 children and families in over 100 Bay area schools. Brian is also Chair of the Institute for School-Based Family Counseling and Symposium Director for the Oxford Symposium in School-Based Family Counseling. His publications include the books: Learning by Doing: Developing Teaching Skills; Interpersonal Skills for Health Professionalsand School-Based Family Counseling: Transforming Family-School Relationships. Currently, Brian is a Core Faculty member in the Western Institute for Social Research in Berkeley, California where he teaches MFT students and supervises masters and doctoral dissertations. He has an active research project developing Computer Content Analysis programs for use in School-Based Family Counseling. He lives in Stuart, Florida with his wife Olive Powell and more cats than he is willing to admit to.
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Dr. Daniela Dominguez, Counseling Psychology Department, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USADr. Daniela Domínguez is a licensed psychologist, licensed clinical counselor, and author of several articles in academic and scientific journals. She has a special interest in disaster response, social justice concerns, bilingual/bicultural training, multiculturalism, human sexuality, and immigration issues. As a mental health first responder, Dr. Domínguez has provided counseling services to families impacted by hurricane Harvey, the 2017 wildfires in Sonoma County, and the 2017 earthquakes in Mexico. In addition, she has a history of providing counseling and therapy services in a variety of settings, including a community clinic, a child guidance center, a detention facility, a rape crisis center, a homeless shelter, two university counseling centers, as well as her own private practice.
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Dr. Belinda Hernandez-Arriaga, Counseling Psychology Department, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA |
Dr. Emily Hernandez, Division of Special Education and Counseling, California State University, Los Angeles, California, USADr. Emily Hernandez is a full time professor at the Charter College of Education at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the Program Coordinator in the School-Based Family Counseling program, a graduate training program that integrates the marriage and family therapy degree with the school counseling credentials. She has extensive experience as a K-12 administrator and counselor in the field of School Counseling and Child Welfare and Attendance. Her areas of expertise are dropout prevention and intervention, school attendance, school climate and safety, bullying, student engagement, community partnerships, and school-based family counseling. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with experience working in private practice, agency, and government settings with family systems, victims of violent crime, trauma, and children with school-related problems. She has served as a crisis team responder for various schools in Los Angeles and provided consultation after major crises incidents, including the San Bernardino, California, school shootings for Fox Channel 11 News. She also serves as a mental health consultant for Los Angeles County Office of Education and as a School-Based Family Counseling consultant for school districts in Los Angeles. She is a Board Member for the National Dropout Prevention Center, Institute for School-Based Family Counseling, and the Friends of Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE).
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Rapid Response Teams
Rapid Response Teams are university led multi-collaborative teams trained to go out after a major disaster and providing support and relief to a community. This component of the DCRT is currently being developed after a model RRT with the University of San Francisco.
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