(June 19, 2006) New Haven, Conn. —
To help local communities reduce the psychological impact of terror
and disaster, the City of New Haven’s Urban Area Security Initiative
(UASI) and The National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV)
at the Yale Child Study Center, will host a series of seminars through
a grant from the Department of Homeland Security.
The first of three seminars will be held on Monday, June 19, 2006
on Yale University’s campus at the Betts House located at 393
Prospect Street, in New Haven, CT. The second and third seminars are
scheduled for July 28th.
The seminars will be attended by emergency management leadership
from the municipalities of New Haven, East Haven, North Haven,
Hamden, West Haven, Woodbridge, and Orange.
The seminars, which are a follow-up to the Disaster Planning Conference
hosted by the NCCEV, the City of New Haven and the Department of Psychiatry
at the Yale University School of Medicine in March 2006, are designed
to increase the capacity of Greater New Haven municipalities to understand
and prepare for the human response to mass-disaster and the implications
for disaster management. Integrating the knowledge and experience
of local emergency management leaders, managers and first responders
with the faculty’s knowledge and experience with trauma will
result in an increased ability to respond and recover from disaster.
The NCCEV was established at the Yale Child Study Center in 1999,
based on the work of the New Haven Child Development-Community Policing
Program, an innovative collaboration of mental health professionals
with law enforcement officials who provide emergency clinical services
to children and families following exposure to a violent or traumatic
event. The NCCEV and CD-CP Programs are under the direction of Dr.
Steven Marans, the Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychiatry at
the Yale Child Study Center. The goals of the NCCEV are to raise public
awareness about the effects on children’s exposure to violence;
provide training and technical assistance in the CD-CP Program model
to communities nationwide; and, to serve as a national resource center
for professionals and the public on children’s exposure to violence.
The seminar is closed to the public and is intended for invited participants
only. For further information on the seminars or the NCCEV please
call 203-785-7047 or 1-877-49-NCCEV (62238).
The seminar schedule is:
8:30 Registration
9:00 Opening Remarks / Seminar Overview
1:00 Seminar Concludes
