Crisis Management in Human Services

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Through this course, students will take a strong look into lives lost, destruction, and hardship generated by many types of severe emergencies: A) natural disasters B) infectious diseases C) infrastructure & system failures D) purposeful, human-initiated disasters (terrorism, bio-terrorism, riots). Such crises challenge society to respond creatively to novel situations with very high stakes. This course will focus on how human service professionals may need to respond when the unthinkable occurs.