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• Roundtable: Needs of Family and Community After Mass Casualty Incidents

• The immediate, short-term, and long-term needs of those impacted by a mass casualty with particular attention of the needs of the families of the victims and members of communities closely connected to a mass casualty;
• Best practices for addressing those needs; and
• Existing models that support grief, promote healing and foster resiliency.

Roundtable Members

• Facilitator: Dr. Emma Cunliffe, Research and Policy Director
• Dr. Grete Dyb, Adjunct Professor in the Institute of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oslo; Co-Author of Expert Report: Survivors and the Aftermath of the Terrorist Attack on Utøya Island, Norway. Grete Dyb is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo and Head of research at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway. She has been Principal Investigator of numerous studies on childhood trauma and PTSD in children and adolescents and is past president of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies. After the terror attack in Norway in 2011, she initiated the Utøya Study, a longitudinal interview study of youth survivors of the terror attack and their parents.
• Dr. Jaclyn Schildkraut, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Oswego; Author of Expert Report: Supporting Survivors and Communities after Mass Shootings. Dr. Schildkraut holds a PhD in criminal justice from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. A national expert on mass shootings, Dr. Schildkraut’s research has been featured by local, national, and international media.  
• Levent Altan, Executive Director of Victim Support in Europe. Mr. Altan has grown the organization into an international network of victim support organizations which carries out advocacy, policy and capacity building for all victims of crime.
• Mary Fetchet, President and Executive Director of Voices Center for Resilience, an organization she founded following the death of her 24 year-old son on 9/11. A graduate of Columbia University School of Social Work, her 29 years of experience as a clinical social worker influenced VOICES innovative approach to providing long-term support for victims’ families, responders and survivors, and commemorating the lives lost in a meaningful way.
• Serena Lewis, former Northern Zone Grief Coordinator and Provincial Grief Consultant. Ms. Lewis is a registered social worker and holds both a Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work. Since she completed her term, she has continued doing consulting work with teams and groups supporting death and grief literacy as well as psychological safety. She lives and works on the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq, calling Great Village her home.
• Dr. Megan McElheran, CEO of Wayfound Mental Health Group and Clinical Psychologist. Dr. McElheran's work focuses exclusively on work with military members and public safety personnel, including members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal police officers, firefighters, corrections officers, medical personnel, and others who are directly or vicariously impacted by traumatic events.
• Dr. Terry Mitchell, Clinical and Community Psychologist. Dr. Mitchell was the principal investigator of a study on the impact on volunteer first responders and local communities following the Swiss Flight 111 disaster in 1998. She is Professor Emeritus, Wilfrid Laurier University and now is working as a clinical psychologist in private practice, PEI.

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