Mass Fatality: Reunification and Family Assistance Center

Training will focus on how to set up reunification and a family assistance center after a mass fatality event.

"Disasters and mass casualty incidents can strike at any time, separating families and friends from their loved ones or displacing them for long periods of time. Some patients will not survive, and family notification and support must be provided. Patient tracking and family reunification and support services are key aspects of disaster response and recovery, but also some of the most challenging". - HHS.gov

Who Should Attend: Coroner's, First Responders, Funeral Homes, School Administration, Hospital Administration, Nurses, Church Personnel, and Counselors

Speaker Biography

Wayne Freeman has been in law enforcement for 29 years and is the South Carolina Active Shooter and CCTA Training Coordinator. He is a Captain with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, and supervises the State Active Shooter Training Program. Past assignments include: special operations, firefighter, EMT, SWAT, medic, tactical flight officer, explosives K-9 handler, bloodhound tracking team, hazardous materials response, fugitive operations, DARE Officer, school resource officer, and other assignments.

His active shooter experience includes: SCAASCAT Instructor, ALERRT 1 Instructor, ALERRT 2 Instructor, LASER Instructor, AAIR RTF Instructor, PACOP Instructor, MACTAC, CRASE Instructor, NTOA Active Shooter Instructor, GTI Immediate Action Team, Blue Line Active Shooter Response, ALICE Instructor, ERASE Instructor, and several other programs. He has been honored to work with survivors and responders from Margery Stoneman Douglas, Columbine, Virginia Tech, the Greenwood SC Shooting, Trolley Square, the Naval Yard Shooting, Sandy Hook, Mother Emanuel, and many others. He has trained more than 100,000 students in active shooter response and is the author of the South Carolina active shooter training manual.

He has managed the South Carolina Active Shooter and CCTA Training Program for more than a decade and was the program director for the Federal Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attack Grant Program. He has trained students from all fifty states and 10 countries.