CWB Included in the 28 Incredible Web Sites About Post-Disaster Work
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CWB Work with DC Japanese Mental Health Network
CWB team consulted with the DC Japanese mental health network (DCJMHN) on setting up post-disaster counseling to the Japanese living in the greater Metro DC area after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Interview: Japanese, Waiting in Line for Hours, Follow Social Order After Quake
“Few other places in the world have had the accumulation of history as Japan,” said Fred Bemak, professor of psychology at George Mason University who has experience in cross-cultural counseling in Asia. He founded the group Counselors Without Borders, which responds to international disasters. Continue reading
American Counseling Association – Counseling Today Story
With a passion for international counseling, Bemak, professor and director of the Diversity Research in Action Center at George Mason University, founded Counselors Without Borders in 2005. The catalyst for the organization’s creation, Bemak says, was witnessing the great underserved need for culturally responsive counseling in the Gulf Coast region in the months after Hurricane Katrina.
Counselors Without Borders Provides Training In Haiti
Counselors Without Borders (CWB) teamed up with Partners of the Americas in April 2010 to provide counseling training in post-disaster situations for counselors, social workers, psychologists, principals, and teachers in Port-au Prince and Jacmel. Continue reading
Mason Counselors Without Borders Reach Out to California Wildfire Victims
Shortly after the fires began, San Diego State University contacted Bemak and asked if he could send a group from Counselors Without Borders to the area to meet and talk with culturally diverse groups that had been affected by the fires. Continue reading
Students Help Meet Mental Health Needs in Hurricane-Ravaged Gulf
Counselors without Borders, is the first program of its kind at a U.S. university. Fourteen students from CEHD underwent intensive training on the skills needed for disaster counseling before making their initial trip to the Gulf Coast last November Continue reading
