The articles here are largely on psycho-social support and social capital recovery, and are applicable to any disaster. Following the 2009 Victorian bushfires the University of Melbourne carried out a long-term research project in this area, the recommendations of which were largely incorporated in the State Government’s Psychosupportr Framework (both these in Essential Reading section). Check out the Aiustralian Red Cross videos, particularly Dr Rob Gordon’s video on COVID-19 in bushfire recovery setting. Gordon is Victoria’s most experience disaster-related Clinical Psychologist. His articles (+ Alrich’s) highlight important of social recovery initiatives. Eddy, I was thinking of your agency’s experiences of this following the 2018 Indonesian Lombok earthquake, and Sulawesi earthquake/tsunami …
