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What does Green Cross do?

The Green Cross Academy of Traumatology responds to requests from individuals, organizations, and other entities following a traumatic event. The requests can include any or all of the following:

  • Crisis assistance and counseling - helping those in shock get back on their feet and access their natural coping methods and resources.
  • Assessment and referral services - identifying who is recovering properly from the traumatic event, who is not, why they are not recovering and what additional or other services are needed when and by whom.
  • Orientation and Consultation to Management - educating management about the immediate, week-to-week, and long term consequences of traumatic events for individuals, work groups, families, and larger systems.
  • Training, Education, and Certification - preparing management, human resources, employee assistance professionals, and service providers with sufficient guidance and competence to first do no harm to the traumatized and help them recover.
  • Family Resource Management - designing and implementing programs for strengthening and promoting family wellness in the wake of traumatic events, with special attention to young children.
  • Long-term trauma counseling - helping those unable to recover quickly from the trauma by providing individual and group trauma and grief counseling.

These services are provided over varying periods of time and performed initially by members of a deployment team. They are transported into The impacted area within hours after the request is made. They stay from between 3-6 weeks or until local Green Cross Academy of Traumatology members can relieve them.
 

Alert Status

Alert Status

 

Green Cross is monitoring the situation in Oklahoma and sending thoughts and prayers to all who are affected. first responders, victims, people who are still waiting to hear about people they care about. We have not received any formal requests for assistance but will put an Alert Message on the website if we do.

Red Cross seeks GCAT

The Red Cross is seeking Green Cross Members to lend a hand in the after math of Hurricane Sandy. Particularly to help our at the shelters. If any Green Cross member has community-mental health services experience such as: clinical social workers, psychologists, professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychiatric nurses, and psychologists with independent licenses, you are more than needed to help assist the Red Cross.


If you have a minimum of two weeks to volunteer for this effort, have an active license in one of the above specialties, and are in excellent physical health, the people impacted by Hurricane Sandy need your help. The Northern Minnesota Region of the Red Cross is looking for volunteers who could attend training on Friday, November 9th and travel to the East Coast as early as November 10th. There may also be opportunities to deploy later in November or early December.


If you are interested or would like additional information, including specific eligibility requirements, please contact Red Cross Staff Services at arctc.disasterstaffing@redcross.org or 612-460-3660.

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