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Trauma Response Teams

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Trauma Response Teams: Exercise Design - Effectiveness of Crisis Protocol
Wednesday, June 8 in Texas

Trauma Response Teams: Exercise Design - Effectiveness of Crisis Protocol is an all new collaborative presentation by TLC presenters William Steele and Marie Nelson, and Esther Corwin of the Texas Governor’s Division of Emergency Management. This workshop will identify the four phases of the Emergency Management Cycle, an overview of Emergency Management Planning, an assessment of your current readiness related to established protocol used in schools across the country, and ways to train and prepare your school, staff for future crisis and community emergencies. Table top activities will be used, handout materials, worksheets and ample time for discussion will be provided.

Esther Corwin is an Exercise Training Officer with the Texas Governor’s Division of Emergency Management. She has served over twenty years with the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve in medical services. She has developed and coordinated training exercises for military, civilian and other governmental agencies including the National Disaster Medical System, and Red Cross. She has been on numerous search and rescue teams as a medical first responder and has worked closely with many independent school districts including all levels of faculty and staff in providing hands-on training in emergency response.

Marie Nelson, M.Ed. is a counselor with the Tyler Independent School District in Texas.  She is also the Trauma/Crisis Response Coordinator for her district of 17,000+ students.  As coordinator she has been heavily involved in research, training of administrators and Campus Trauma Response Teams, and has helped to develop the basic protocol for the district.  She also has participated in terrorism exercises and some emergency management training through the Texas Department of Emergency Management and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
 
Her years of experience include classroom teaching, spending time as a Reading Specialist, and becoming certified as a Mediator in Education.  She has trained adult trainers in mediation as well as over 1,000 students in how to be mediators.  There was time spent in being a member of the Texas Attorney General's Board on Mediation Initiative as well as speaking extemporaneously before the Texas Attorney General's Task Force for Violence.
 
She is certified as a Trauma and Loss Consultant Supervisor through TLC.  She has co-authored with Dr. William Steele, Dee Ingle, and Patti Porter the Trauma Response Protocol Manual for Schools.  She is a member of the TLC faculty and presently serves on TLC's Advisory Board and TLC's Journal Board.

William Steele, MSW, PsyD is the Founder and Director of The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC) established in 1990. He has over 35 years of experience in the field of trauma. He consults and provides debriefing to those exposed to critical trauma-inducing incidents. He has trained over 40,000 educators, human service, mental health, hospice, and healthcare professionals and was one of the first Americans selected by the Kuwait government after the Gulf War to train their newly formed mental health staff in trauma intervention. He worked with the staff of the Jewish Child Care Association in Manhattan and consulted with hundreds of school administrators, social workers and therapists from across the country after the 9/11 tragedy. He is the author of numerous publications and intervention programs being used in agencies, hospitals, hospices and schools across the country. Over 4,000 professionals have attended intensive training leading to Certification as Trauma and Loss Consultants and School Specialists. His most recent book is, Trauma Intervention: Structured Sensory Interventions for Traumatized Children, Adolescents and Parents (SITCAP), published by Mellen Press in 2001. TLC intervention programs and resource materials provide needed help to children, adolescents and adults in school and agency settings in over 40 states. Dr. Steele is most proud of the hundreds of professionals who have given countless hours of their time to field-test TLC programs and resource materials.