A Department of Homeland Security Emeritus Center of Excellence led by the University of Maryland

Fran Norris

Fran Norris

Former Investigator

Lead Investigator on START Research Projects

An Integrated Conception of Community Resilience

March 2010 to February 2012

Community Assessment of Resilience Tool (CART)

June 2005 to May 2008

Developing Community Resilience for Children and Families

June 2005 to May 2008

Quantitative Index of the Public Health Impacts of Terrorism

June 2008 to October 2011

Selected Publications

Exploring Community Resilience in Workforce Communities of First Responders Serving Katrina Survivors (Journal Article)

Measuring Capacities for Community Resilience (Journal Article)

Looking for Resilience: Understanding the Longitudinal Trajectories of Responses to Stress (Journal Article)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Postdisaster Distress: A Community Based Treatment Program for Survivors of Hurricane Katrina (Journal Article)

Evaluation of a National Effort to Reach Hurricane Katrina Survivors and Evacuees: The Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (Journal Article)

Factors Predicting Crisis Counselor Referrals to Other Crisis Counseling, Disaster Relief, and Psychological Services: A Cross-site Analysis of Post-Katrina Programs (Journal Article)

Innovations in Disaster Mental Health Services and Evaluation: National, State, and Local Responses to Hurricane Katrina (Journal Article)

Piloting a New Model of Crisis Counseling: Specialized Crisis Counseling Services in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina (Journal Article)

Service Characteristics and Counseling Outcomes: Lessons from a Cross-Site Evaluation of Crisis Counseling after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma (Journal Article)

Financial and Social Circumstances and the Incidence and Course of PTSD in Mississippi During the First Two Years After Hurricane Katrina (Journal Article)

Validation of the Short Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Rating Interview (expanded version, Sprint-E) as a Measure of Postdisaster Distress and Treatment Need (Journal Article)

Longitudinal Linkages Between Perceived Social Support and Psychological Distress: A Test of Sequential Model of Social Causation and Social Selection (Journal Article)

Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness (Journal Article)

Community Resilience and Wellness for Children Exposed to Hurricane Katrina (Book Chapter)

Community Resilience and the Principles of Mass Trauma Intervention (Journal Article)

The Epidemiology of Trauma and PTSD (Book Chapter)

A Psychometric Analysis of Project Liberty's Adult Enhanced Services Referral Tool (Journal Article)

Community and Ecological Approaches to Understanding and Alleviating Postdisaster Distress (Book Chapter)

Challenges in Implementing Disaster Mental Health Programs: State Program Directors' Perspective (Journal Article)

Disaster Research Methods: Past Progress and Future Directions (Journal Article)

Early Physical Health Consequences of Disaster Exposure and Acute Disaster-Related PTSD (Journal Article)

Methods for Disaster Mental Health Research (Book)

News References

School principals can help assess community resilience (Featured Research)

START Releases 2011 Research Review (Featured Research)

START responds to White House report on preventing violent extremism (Featured Research)

Have you seen it yet? START Research Review (Featured Research)

START releases first Research Review (Featured Research)