Macclesfield Disaster Recovery Group & Macclesfield CFA presents an Information Evening

Macclesfield Disaster Recovery Group & Macclesfield CFA

presents an Information Evening

 

Children & Teenagers in Emergencies

 

What effect would a high impact emergency have on your child?

What is the best way to support them?

How can you minimise long term psychological effects?

 

Featuring a presentation by Clinical Psychologist

Dr Rob Gordon

Rob Gordon is a Clinical Psychologist and Consultant to the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services for Disaster Recovery and to Australian Red Cross for International and Emergency operations as well as a number of other welfare and humanitarian agencies. He has been involved in the field of trauma, critical incidents for 30 years. Beginning with the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria he has worked on large scale events such as the Australian recovery of the Bali Bombings and East Asian Tsunami, Cyclones, the Black Saturday bushfires, the Christchurch earthquake and the Margaret River bushfires in WA among others. He has consulted on some 30 large scale events and double that number of smaller emergencies.

 

When:          7.00-9.30 pm Thursday 11th February 2016

Where:        Emerald Secondary College

Registration: at http://www.trybooking.com/JXWG OR http://www.trybooking.com/174310

 

 

 

Funding generously provided through the CFA Summer Fire Safety initiative grants

(Evening will be postponed if a Code Red day)