Jack Herrmann

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  www.csmonitor.com/2008/0908/p01s02-usgn.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/9/2008    Last Visited: 9/9/2008  

  Planning on the fly for multiple storms is a juggling act made easier by clear directives and open lines of communication between various agencies, says Jack Herrmann, a senior adviser for the National Association of County and City Health Officials in Washington.
  
  Increased focus on volunteer capabilities, too, has given emergency officials a more accurate picture of who is available to help out, when they can come, and what they can do.
  
  "The mood is pretty calm," says Mr. Herrmann from the Red Cross command center in Washington.
  
  "I think people recognize the potential of having storms going on at the same time, and the resource challenges that might occur," he says.

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  www.daltondailycitizen.com/health_mind_body/local_story - [Cached Version]
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  Jack Herrmann, Senior Adviser for Public Health Preparedness at NACCHO, added, "We are proud to offer this funding in partnership with the OVMRC.

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  Jane Causey, Members Director Jack Herrmann, Webmaster

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  Jack Herrmann, MSED, NCC, LMHC

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  Jack Herrmann, M.S.Ed., NCC Secretary
  
  Univ. of Rochester Medical Center

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  Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness - [Cached Version]
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  Jack Herrmann, M.S.Ed, N.C.C.
  
  Program Director, Disaster Mental Health585.275.6740
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  Jack Herrmann joined CDMEP as Program Director for Disaster Mental Health in February 2004.He brings a wealth of front-line disaster experience gained over the past decade as a volunteer with the American Red Cross.His disaster mental health expertise focuses primarily on training and preparing mental health professionals to respond to disasters as well as managing and administrating the mental health function on disaster relief operations.In 2004, Jack was awarded a grant to develop a curriculum that will be used to train mental health professionals throughout New York State.In addition, he is developing guidelines for that State's counties on how to plan for and respond to the psychological consequences associated with disasters.
  
  Jack has responded to numerous local, state and national disasters including the Northridge California Earthquake, the explosion of TWA Flight 800, and Hurricanes Danny, Georges and Floyd.In 2001, he served as the American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Coordinator for the New York City Family Assistance Center following the attacks on the World Trade Center.Most recently, Jack was deployed to oversee and coordinate American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health volunteers assigned to relief efforts following Hurricane Ivan in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
  
  His commitment to disaster mental health was recognized by the American Red Cross in 2001 when he was given the National Disaster Services Award, their most prestigious disaster volunteer award.In 2004, he was awarded the United Way Community Champion Award for outstanding volunteer contributions.
  
  Jack currently serves on many local, state, and regional committees and advisory councils for the American Red Cross.Most recently, he has been named the Chair of the Emergency Response Committee for the Northeast Service Area and will be responsible for assessing the disaster response capabilities for Red Cross chapters throughout the northeast region, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.In addition to these committees he has served as the volunteer New York State Disaster Mental Health Lead, and is a current member of the Red Cross National Critical Response Team.
  
  Prior to joining the Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness, Jack had a distinguished career in suicide prevention.He served for 14 years as Coordinator of the University of Rochester Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide and was a practicing mental health clinician specializing in the treatment of suicide survivors and traumatic grief.
  
  Mr. Herrmann earned a master's degree in counseling, family and work life studies from the University of Rochester and has received the National Board of Certified Counselors (NCC) certification.In addition to his role with CDMEP, Jack holds dual faculty appointments at the University of Rochester as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (School of Medicine and Dentistry) and Clinical Nursing (School of Nursing).

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  Democrat & Chronicle: Living - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/2/2006    Last Visited: 2/2/2006  

  Jack Herrmann saw some of that during his two trips to New Orleans to coordinate mental health counseling after Hurricane Katrina.One volunteer, for example, was so rattled about his dwindling compassion for those he was helping that he sought help from Herrmann.
  
  "We often don't get told, or give people permission, to feel a wide range of what we'd call positive or negative emotions," explains Herrmann, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester.
  
  But in extreme situations, or in relationships with decades of unresolved issues, colliding emotions , shame over realizing you hated your departed uncle yet still want his power tools , can rush out awkwardly.
  
  "That dissonance can wreak havoc with people," Herrmann says.

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  Democrat & Chronicle: Local News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/9/2005    Last Visited: 9/9/2005  

  Jack Herrmann, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, went to Louisiana as an American Red Cross volunteer and found he was often called upon to lend a shoulder to cry on.
  
  "I had to hear many of the sad stories, and the losses that people had suffered personally and economically," Herrmann said from his office at UR.He stopped in Thursday before flying today to London for a conference on international disaster preparedness.
  
  He said he often had to tell people that he had no financial help for them yet.
  
  "Many who were coming in were living with family, 17, 25 to a home.They were running out of food and medication," Herrmann said."They hoped they would get individual financial assistance.We weren't there yet."
  
  Herrmann expects to return to Louisiana after the London conference.

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  Democrat & Chronicle: Local News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/4/2005    Last Visited: 9/4/2005  

  Tips for coping with the emotions that follow a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, from Red Cross mental health volunteers Diane Porcelli and Jack Herrmann, who also is an assistant professor in the University of Rochester Medical Center department of psychology.

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  Democrat & Chronicle: Local News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/2/2005    Last Visited: 2/2/2005  

  Jack Herrmann, a coordinator for the hospital's family assistance center, said the victims and their families were experiencing "a wide range of emotional reactions."
  
  "There are some who are very stoic and who are very able to contain or restrain their emotions, and there are others who are very emotionally distraught and pained by what they have gone through," he said.
  
  The family assistance center, which was set up Saturday to help the families locate their missing loved ones and then deal with the many issues relative to their care and transport, had wound down Tuesday.
  
  Over the past several days, though, coordinators were busy handling phone inquiries; communicating with the Canadian consulate about traveling over the border; arranging hotel accommodations and phone service for the families; helping them retrieve belongings from the bus; and providing them with pillows, blankets, food, coffee and water.
  
  Social workers also were on hand to counsel people, Herrmann said.

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