Episode 2: Preparedness

SAMHSA DTAC speaks with Curtis Brown, former Chief Deputy State Coordinator of Emergency Management at the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, current Visiting Senior Practitioner in Residence at Virginia Commonwealth University, and co-founder of the Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management. DTAC and Brown discuss how to engage historically marginalized communities in disaster planning, the role of cultural and linguistic factors in disaster behavioral health preparedness, and how to use technology to promote DEIA in disaster behavioral health.