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NTSB to Provide Training on Managing the Family Assistance Process PDF Print E-mail
Written by Ryan Gray   
Wednesday, 13 April 2011 10:27

The National Transportation Safety Board will offer a three-day training course in June that teaches advanced skills needed to assist families who are victims of a disaster.

The NTSB leadership skills event June 7-9 in Ashburn, Va., aims to provide more in-depth best practices to commercial transportation officials, representatives of federal and state agencies, and local and national non-governmental and/or private organizations that have a recognized role in disaster response.

The event will focus on key techniques for effective family assistance leadership in disaster situations. This will include practical strategies for disaster crisis management, managing family assistance operations and integrating lessons learned from recent disasters into the next generation of family assistance operations. For example, participants will establish and operate a Family Assistance Center as part of an exercise.

NTSB said those who complete the course will be able to define an integrated model of disaster family assistance and more effectively manage family assistance responses using crisis management tools. Participants will also be able to communicate with family members on complex and difficult topics and define crisis leadership skills necessary to effectively work in an emotionally charged environment.

In the upcoming May edition of School Transportation News, Senior Editor Stephane Babcock reports on how school districts and bus companies must provide comfort and support to students, parents and the entire school community in the event of a serious crash or other incident that can have injurious or even fatal consequences.

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