Request for ICISF CISM Trained Personnel

Project Medishare

Request for ICISF CISM Trained Personnel

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a planned mental health support team for Haiti with the first deployment potentially scheduled for February 2, 2010 with rotations following thereafter. The mental health teams will be partnering with Project Medishare

http://www.projectmedishare.org/who-are-we/

a non-government organization that has been in Haiti since 1994 providing health and other much needed services.

Project Medishare staff will be our on the ground support and will be providing the lodging, sustenance, transportation, security, and translation for our team.  Mental health teams will provide support at Project Medishare’s sites. The teams will be working with children and their caregivers so I am looking for a wide range of skills. Psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, and other mental health professionals, and clergy. If you are NOT a mental health professional but have responded to a National disaster in the past, please provide me with your information. Deployment will be for 4-5 days.

What I am hoping to do is have enough people interested to be able to send people down in rotation with teams overlapping throughout for several weeks. I will also designate a lead person/coordinator for each team when I can’t be there.  Project Medishare has private planes that have been donated for their use that leave from Miami daily to Haiti. We are currently working with airlines and other organizations to get team members to Miami. At this point we do not foresee a cost to the team member for transportation. If you know of other mental health professionals who have expressed an interest in deployment who have been trained in a disaster/crisis response model (ICISF-CISM, NOVA, or TLC) please forward this email to them.

Thanks.

For those wishing to GO TO Haiti to volunteer time/skills please e-mail:

1.  Full name
2.  Contact #
3.  Home address
4.  Date of birth
5.  E-mail address
6.  Languages spoken
7.  Title/ profession/degree
8.  Specialty/skills
9.  Country of citizenship
10. Passport # with exp date
11. Mental Health/Medical License #
12. Crisis response training/deployment history
13. Availability
14. ICISF Membership
15. ICISF Certificate Of Specialized Training (COST), preferred but  not required
16. Medishare is advising you should have a current Tetanus Shot and  Hepatitis “B” shot

Respectfully,

Samantha Madhosingh, Psy.D.
Project Medishare in Haiti
Your point of contact shall be:

Samantha Madhosingh, Psy.D.
madsamdoc@gmail.com

Utilize the above e-mail for inquires or to forward your information to be considered for this mission. All inquiries and questions are to be sent to directly to Dr. Madhosingh.

Please do not contact ICISF for any additional clarification of this request.

We at ICISF appreciate your willingness to use your ICISF training to serve those in need within the Haiti disaster, and thus supporting one of our partner agencies in this response. If selected, you will be responding with project Medishare. Please be advised that this deployment is not an ICISF deployment, and is solely under the auspices of Project Medishare.

For those looking for upcoming training opportunities offering various ICISF CISM Trainings, please view the following ICISF links:

ICISF Conference Calendar
http://www.icisf.org/training/calendarofcon.cfm

ICISF Conference Brochure
January – June, 2010
http://www.icisf.org/training/2010JanuaryJune.pdf

Regional Conference Schedule 2010
http://www.icisf.org/training/12.8.09.pdf

Approved Instructor Workshops
http://www.icisf.org/training/calendarOfTrain.asp
Donald R. Howell
Executive Director
International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc.
3290 Pine Orchard Lane, Unit 106