**Brief Biography**

**Dr. Norma S. C. Jones, LICSW**

**Howard University School of Social Work**

**601 Howard Place, N.W.**

**Washington,** **D.C. 20059**

**202-806-7300 -- 202-806-7317**

[**njones@howard.edu**](mailto:njones@howard.edu)

Dr. Norma Jones is an Associate Professor who has taught at the School
of Social Work for the last twenty years, and is chair of the Human
Behavior and Social Environment Sequence. She also directs the School's
International Linkage Development Program. She has taught previously at
the University of Maryland School of Social Work and the School of
Medicine. Dr. Jones is a licensed clinician in the practice of
psychotherapy in Maryland and the District of Columbia. She has been a
consultant with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA/DHS) for
the last fifteen years and consults with other international disaster
response organizations.

Dr. Jones' area of specialization is disaster mental health and she
presents papers and seminars at national and international seminars and
conferences. In January, 2007, she presented a paper: *Critical Incident
Stress Management: A Program to Address Issues of Secondary
Traumatization Among Disaster Workers* at the Council on Social Work
Education conference in Barbados, W.I., on "Disaster Planning,
Management And Relief: New Responsibilities for Social Work Education"

In response to the experience of secondary traumatization among disaster
workers at a disaster service response center, Dr. Jones developed and
implemented a Master of Social Work Student Stress Management Program.
The program, an independent study course, provides students an
opportunity to assist with the delivery of stress management services
that include: Individual & group consultation, needs assessment,
referral to EAP and other appropriate resources. As needed, seminars
offering specific content on: Critical Incident Stress Management;
Managing the Traumatized and/or Angry Client; Managing Home & Work are
provided.

The graduate students provide stress management services that assist
staff and management to address disaster related stress by: Enhancing
and maintaining a positive state of physical and mental health;
improving and/or maintaining effective coping strategies; maintaining
and/or increasing productivity and developing effective responses to
manage escalated and crisis situations

Dr. Jones participated in the development and implementation of a new
Howard University College of Arts and Sciences undergraduate course:
FRSM-003 Interdisciplinary Approached to Research-Hurricane Katrina.
This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to explore
issues regarding the Katrina disaster individually and collaboratively
from the perspectives of the natural sciences, social sciences,
humanities and fine arts.

The Howard University Emergency Preparedness Program is directed by Dr.
Franklin D. Chambers. *Howard University is committed to providing and
maintaining the highest levels of emergency* *preparedness and response
for* *all types of emergencies. In* *light of recent events and current
world situations, the need for information has drastically increased.* A
website, <http://www.pfm.howard.edu/emergency/> provides information
regarding campus emergency resources: Telephone numbers, University
television and radio, security/police support resources and key
emergency procedures.