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Red Group: Priorities for disaster mental health response

Red Group: Priorities for disaster mental health response. Premise: no national blueprint exists for how we manage mental and behavioral health problems related to disasters

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Red Group: Priorities for disaster mental health response

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  1. Red Group: Priorities for disaster mental health response • Premise: no national blueprint exists for how we manage mental and behavioral health problems related to disasters • Create BLUEPRINTS to maximize healthy adaptive behaviors and well-being while minimizing dysfunction and caring for those distressed and ill. Plans must reach local levels and be actively evaluated and updated based on experience from drills and events. • Premise: we haven’t learned enough from the past; lack a thorough understanding that enables better public policy, which generates new research on a continuum • LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: Research and Evaluation

  2. Red Group: Strategies for disaster mental health response 1. Blueprints; A. Enumerating the assumptions and expectations to address behavioral and mental health needs, mapping intervention strategies: done as a collaborative effort within communities B. West Point- Lifelong learning, continuing education, best practices, gaming, partnering, mixing perspectives 2. Learning from experience: Research and Evaluation A. Interdisciplinary research strategies B. Strategic questions to better enable public policy construction and understanding of the human condition

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