The DisastMH e-mail discussion forum serves as on ongoing conference for disaster mental health professionals. Through DisastMH, colleagues can discuss mental health issues in disaster preparedness, disaster response, and disaster recovery. If you are a mental health professional or invited associate in disaster psychology, you are welcome to this forum. Regional Disaster Documentation Center in San Jose, Costa Rica, has served as one of the western hemisphere's principal repositories of information, in both Spanish and English, on hazard and disaster management. Now the center is expanding even further.
Plans are underway to make the center a multiagency project.
Under the plan, the member organizations will create a cooperative regional disaster information system with CRID serving as the coordinating center. A new search engine on the above Web site now allows anyone to search out names, organizations, and e-mail addresses of all discussion group members. The site also offers information on disasters in Nicaragua and may serve as a model for countries interested in developing similar sites. Speaking of Latin American Disaster Discussion Groups . Subscribers will receive e-mail communications from the group with instructions on how to circulate messages and participate in discussions.