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Chaplain Linda Walsh-Garrison, CPSP's Red Cross representative, announces that Board Certified CPSP Clinical Chaplains are invited to join the Red Cross' elite “Spiritual Response Team”; expanding CPSP's relationship with the American Red Cross in response to national events. (See “A World Without Grounding" by Joel Harvey, PhD)
She provides the following information from the Red Cross national headquarters:
The American Red Cross Spiritual Care Response Team (SRT) is an integral part of the ARC Critical Response Team (CRT) and is deployed following aviation and other transportation disasters, mass casualties, WMD/Terrorism events, and by government request. Non-traditional deployments have included natural disasters with mass casualties. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the SRT, and, a compassionate legacy of over 20 aviation responses, 9/11, and, catastrophic hurricane response. SRT’s are deployed as spiritual care managers and assist our federal government partners, including in the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Office of Victims Assistance of the FBI. SRT’s are expected to serve one month each year on call, and, be deployable within four hours to travel to site of the disaster and set up support services. The SRT is a part of the larger Critical Response Team (CRT) and collaborates with ARC Disaster Mental Health and Health Services and Disaster Childcare.”
Six or seven applicants from each cognate group partner may be accepted for the upcoming two-day SRT training in Orlando, FL in January 2009. Board Certified Members in good standing and the support of their chapters, may apply by October 27th, 2008.
Pre-application required. “Those selected for the ARC SRT training will be notified by November 1st. Although all American Red Cross disaster training is offered free of charge, participants will be responsible for their own travel and maintenance. You will need to travel to Orlando on January 28, 2009, so that you will be available for the training on January 29 and 30, 2009.Chaplain Walsh-Garrison urges CPSP Chaplains to take advantage of the free training offered at the local ARC chapters and become credentialed members of the ‘Critical Response Teams’ (CRT) locally and nationally.
For more information, please contact:
Linda Walsh-Garrison
917-597-6319
CPSP.emergencyresponse@gmail.com
Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at October 21, 2008 9:05 PM
