School Counselors are now included in the group of mental health volunteers.  Check with your local Red Cross so that you can be one of those volunteers! Red Cross Recruiting Disaster Mental Health Workers in Preparation for Hurricane Gustov The Red Cross is recruiting for Disaster Mental Health (DMH) workers in preparation for Hurricane Gustov and is asking for registered and non- registered Disaster Mental Health-eligible volunteers to contact their local chapter if they are available to deploy to the gulf states. Use the chapter locator on www.redcross.org to find the closest Red Cross chapter. People who haven't received the Red Cross Foundations of Disaster Mental Health training may have to wait to deploy until a training can be scheduled (or until a decision is made to do trainings at a staging site or at the relief operation). In either case, those interested should contact their chapter to begin the process of registering as a Red Cross volunteer. Those of you who are already registered as Red Cross DMH workers, please contact your chapter to update your availability in DSHR (the Red Cross national database system) as this will facilitate your deployment. Also, if you’re not able to deploy until a later date, updating your availability in DSHR will expedite a later deployment as well. Find your local chapter email: ascaaspects@schoolcounselor.org web: http://www.schoolcounselor.org