It was noted that a lot of cities get benefits from Project Impact involvement. Jim introduced Chuck Walts. Chuck distributed handouts to go along with his presentation. Dealing with Traumatic Stress. Chuck began his presentation by emphasizing that disasters do happen, all kinds of disasters including floods, fires, and tornados.
Disasters can be big or small.
Disasters that result in traumatic stress usually involve death or injury to employees or their loved ones. Chuck showed several slides of the aftermath of several disasters. The slides included pictures of volcanic eruptions, fires, floods, hurricane, tornado and bombings. Chucked stressed that your most critical resource is always people. People have to execute any recovery plan.