Categories: Announcements

Mental Health Providers Needed in Response to Oakland Fire

Alameda County officials responding to the recent warehouse fire have asked for Mental Health Professionals (already licensed) to provide pro-bono services to survivors of the fire, and family members, affected by the fire—throughout the State of California. Alameda County Officials do not want to be contacted directly!

Instead, please forward your info (see below) to the California Disaster Mental Health Coalition, Co-Chair, Robin Siegal, LCSW, at rsiegal@usc.edu

We represent mental health professionals throughout California, dedicated to promoting training, volunteerism and expanding service delivery in disaster mental health: http://www.cdmhc.org  

If you can provide pro-bono services as a licensed mental health professional [NO interns or assistants], experienced in Trauma or Grief & Loss [for this project], please send the needed info to rsiegal@usc.edu Subject Line: CDMHC,  by December 15th. We will collect this contact information and send it to Alameda officials, next week.

Lastly, please forward this “Call for Mental Health Volunteers” announcement to your colleagues, and professional associations on email list-serves, LinkedIn, Facebook and other social media?Thank you for your help!

We need the following Info:

Name:

City/County:

Contact Info (Email & Cell Phone):

License Type (Psychologist, LCSW, MFT, LPCC) and License Number:

They will be verifying licenses.

 

NO INTERNS or ASSISTANTS

Staff

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