In what may be the most ambitious effort by charitable organizations to address the emotional needs of disaster victims, the program will provide reimbursments for mental health therapy.
They note that the Red Cross typically addresses the immediate needs of disaster victims and leaves long-term recovery to other organizations.
"Our immediate focus is continuing doing everything we can to support our state and local partners as they respond to Irene and meet the immediate needs of disaster survivors, and we have the resources needed to do this," an agency spokeswoman, Rachel Racusen, said.
The needs of disaster victims for the temporary shelters and houses should be met rapidly.
Applications that cater to the needs of disaster incident response generate large amount of data and demand large computational resource access.
A picture delivery service for camera sensor networks was proposed in [25], which is motivated by the needs of disaster-response applications.
This is contrary to best "potential" practice that would need to be based on all disasters as well as systematic research into the information needs of disaster affected communities.
To rapidly respond to natural disasters, a key problem is how to efficiently schedule multiple earth observation satellites to acquire image data of a large stricken area by coordinating multiple different even conflicting needs of disaster relief, such as the extent of coverage over the stricken area, timeliness, and the spatial resolution.
Ed Schwartz of the Red Cross told the news source the organization provides more than just food and water -- but focuses also on the mental and spiritual needs of disaster relief victims.
Much wisdom gleaned from after action reports about Hurricane Katrina and Virginia Teach, Aurora, Newtown, Oregon, Charleston and, now, San Bernardino. 1) The primary needs, of disaster survivors and their loved ones, are information and reassurance.
