Objective: The online guest speaker session was organized exclusively for the MSW students is to discuss and learn about Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Child Protection in Emergency Management from a long term expert.
No.of Participants: 33
Everett Ressler, HDPi Executive Director, Specializes in preparedness, risk reduction and child protection Everett has a lifetime of work internationally in the humanitarian and development fields. He has lived and worked for most of career in Asia, Africa and Europe. The focus of his work includes organizational development, programme management, research and evaluation, training and consulting support.
Everett Ressler shared with students that he made a decision that his field of work would be the field of emergencies, that is working with people in acute distress situations. It doesn’t have status, and it doesn’t have money. But it has purpose. And he decided that would be his life’s work. He shared the three factors based on the experience that go together to be a good person in this field. His discussion covered how students can approach Emergencies in India; The Myths of Disaster Response; defining Emergency; social workers in Emergencies; what one can do to prevent conflict and can do to mitigate it. Always take the approach of talking and listening to people find creative ways to solve problems.
Students got a broad understanding of how to hold onto your values during an emergency, how to define an emergency, and what the basics of response are in terms of social work.
