Traumatology, Vol 31(3), Sep 2025, 380-384; doi:10.1037/trm0000620
In 2005, following Hurricane Katrina, the California Disaster Mental Health Coalition developed a volunteer disaster mental health response for individuals who had been displaced from their residences in Louisiana and the gulf coast. The disaster survivors would get six sessions of therapy to help them adjust to home loss and to being displaced from their community. These survivors who needed more help could be seen for another six seasons at the discretion of the therapist. This program provided the framework for the further development of a public/private disaster mental health response, which has been employed several times after Katrina and is still under development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)