Critical Infrastructure Failures
- In a 10 to 15 slide PowerPoint presentation, identify a recent disaster event (within the most recent 10 years), providing a description of the major events of the disaster leading up to, during, and after the event, to the extent possible.
- Incorporating the selected area above, discuss, with detail and support, how the area is illustrated in the disaster event.
- Explore how the selected element influenced disaster response efforts.
- Provide details of the ways in which these influences were observed.
- Discuss any barriers presented by the selected element in providing effectual behavioral health interventions.
- Prepare a plan describing how the challenges experienced might be more effectively navigated using the principles of disaster behavioral health learned throughout the course.
- Share the steps and resources you would deploy to overcome or avoid the challenges faced in the selected element.
- Ensure the plan presented is based upon evidenced based practices established in the field as effective in addressing psychological needs in disaster settings.
