Lisa LaDue, M.S.W.

Mass Fatality Mental Health Services Expert

Lisa LaDue has been actively involved in developing disaster response plans that focus on behavioral health services, mass fatalities and family assistance in major cities and counties across the US. She is the co-founder, former director, and former senior advisor for the National Mass Fatalities Institute. For over 30 years, she has been providing clinical social work and mental health services for individuals and families impacted by traumatic events.  Read More…

Accomplishments/Achievements:

• Executive Director, Pi Trauma Services Group, Ltd.
  • Established to provide consultation, training and direct services to enhance resilience to, and recovery from stress, trauma and disasters
• Indian Ocean Tsunami
  • Worked with a team of trauma specialists sponsored by the Foundation for Human Enrichment
  • Co-leader of a team of trauma specialists in India providing trauma recovery training and services for tsunami survivors suffering from persistent post traumatic stress symptoms
• Hurricane Katrina, Mental Health Specialist
  • Part of a team that established and maintained a field hospital for hurricane survivors
  • Part of a trauma outreach team providing Trauma First Aid training to crisis counselors, outreach workers, and New Orleans Fire Department peer counselors
• American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Coordinator, Pentagon, 2001
  • Pentagon Family Assistance Center following the terrorist attacks of 9/11
• Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Services, November 2001
  • Coordinated services on New York’s Staten Island 

Resume available upon request.