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Sarasota COAD
| Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Strike Team |
Mission:
To provide behavioral health response and recovery
activities after disaster events, to ensure community access
to critical incident stress management information, and
to target crisis intervention services to individuals and
groups directly or indirectly impacted per requests from
Health and Human Services Operations Center and the public.
2011 - 2012 Priorities:
- Continue to update
resource list to ensure most up to date information on
mental health and substance abuse providers.
- Compile and utilize literature that
can be helpful for responders in times of trauma.
- Interface with the
Medical Reserve Corps.
- Provide education on
topics which are related to mental health, substance
abuse and disasters.
- Engage new members for
the strike team.
Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Strike Team Agencies:
- American Red Cross
- Bayside Center for
Behavioral Health- SMH
- Coastal Behavioral
Healthcare
- Department of Children
and Families
- First Step of Sarasota
- Florida Center for Early
Childhood
- Jewish Family and
Children's Service of Sarasota-Manatee
- Medical Reserve Corps
Sarasota County
- Mental Health Community
Centers
- Tidewell Grief Education
and Support Center
- United Way 2-1-1
Staff Contact:
Lynette Herbert
2200 Ringling Blvd.
Suite 221
Sarasota, FL 34237
941-861-2579
lherbert@scgov.net
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