1. Premise: no national blueprint exists for how we manage mental and behavioral health problems related to disasters

2. Create BLUEPRINTS to maximize healthy adaptive behaviors and well-being while minimizing dysfunction and caring for those distressed and ill. Plans must reach local levels and be actively evaluated and updated based on experience from drills and events.

2. Premise: we haven’t learned enough from the past; lack a thorough understanding that enables better public policy, which generates new research on a continuum

3. LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: Research and Evaluation

Red Group: Priorities for disaster mental health response

Red Group: Strategies for disaster mental health response

1. Blueprints;A. Enumerating the assumptions and expectations to address behavioral

and mental health needs, mapping intervention strategies: done as a collaborative effort within communities

B. West Point- Lifelong learning, continuing education, best practices, gaming, partnering, mixing perspectives

2. Learning from experience: Research and EvaluationA. Interdisciplinary research strategiesB. Strategic questions to better enable public policy construction and

understanding of the human condition