Crisis Recovery- Human Perspective
Dr. Wong is the Director of Crisis Counseling and Intervention Services at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second largest school district in the United States. Identified by the Wall Street Journal as one of the architects of schools safety, she has on-the-ground experience with organizing hundreds of school crisis incidents in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Littleton, Colorado, New York City, Springfield, Oregon, Dover, Tennessee and Red Lake Minnesota. Dr. Wong has co-authored and served as lead editor for three books on School Safety: "Jane's School Safety Handbook", "Jane's Safe Schools Planning Guide for All Hazards" and "Jane's Teacher's Safety Guide." She is also the author of the COPS in Schools curriculum on Mental Health Intervention and Crisis Recovery and is co-author of articles on school-based interventions with students exposed to life threatening violence published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American School Board Association and the California Teacher's Association. Internationally, she has advised teacher unions, school and government officials on the effects of psychological trauma on school children and adults after devastating earthquakes in Kobe, Japan and the Peoples' Republic of China. Dr. Wong was a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health and served on the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee that prepared the IOM Publication: "Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism", released in August 2003. Currently, she is a trainer for the "Recovery Phase" of the US Department of Education's "Emergency Response and Crisis Management" initiative to enhance and improve school preparedness for all hazards, including terrorist attacks.
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