What is the greatest cost of bushfires and other disasters?
Is it the physical damage or the emotional harm?
Come and hear how the mental anguish caused by loss can be diverted from traumatic memories and re-purposed into positive directions.
A dinner at Kew Golf Club on Monday, 24 February
6.30 for 7 pm till 9.30 pm. https://www.trybooking.com/BIBRW
” There is consistent evidence that anywhere between 5–40 per cent of people involved in an emergency event are at risk of sustaining severe and protracted psychological injury” (DHS Vic 2014)
In 2016 the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience & Safer Communities released a report commissioned from Deloitte Economics, which estimated that the social impacts of the Black Saturday Bushfires - at $3.9 billion - outweighed the direct financial cost impacts at $3.1 billion.
Among the projected lifetime costs, the largest were mental Health issues at $1.1 billion and Family Violence at $985 million, far exceeding Environmental Damage at $411 million, said the report.
Dr Farrell is a world authority on disaster recovery and will be in Australia to upskill professionals from affected communities in how best to treat mental trauma arising from the bushfires, using his experience from the Middle East and Asian disasters over recent years.
Arranged by the Rotarian Action Group for Family Safety Inc, an Australian Registered Charity.
