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Perceptions of Indigenous Workers Following Participation in a Disaster Relief Project

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A survey design was used to elicit workers'perceptions of providing crisis outreach services tosurvivors of the 1993 flood in Illinois. Findingshighlight the benefits of recruiting local workers indisaster relief work. Positive outcomes of theexperience include both personal and professionalgrowth.

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Soliman, H.H., Lingle, S.E. & Raymond, A. Perceptions of Indigenous Workers Following Participation in a Disaster Relief Project. Community Ment Health J 34, 557–568 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018706900439

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