To: William Spea
From:
Sent: Tue 11/12/2013 9:10:19 PM
Subject: Re: Letter of Intent from Fortunate Blessings
of course!
On Nov 12, 2013, at 4:07 PM, William Spear wrote:
Kindly pass this on to Jeffrey.
Many thanks,
Dear Jeffrey:
I've tried a number of times through Ito see you but it looks as if
our paths keep moving in different directions. I hope she
communicated to you that most of all I simply wanted to catch up,
as a friend with birthday wishes and mutual interests. Perhaps we
can find a time before the end of the year to meet. By the way, I
did arrange for a family to meet with Andres Serrano but he failed
to return my calls.
I am writing to you today wearing my disaster response hat and
reaching out to you as a possible source of funding. I am sending
this letter of intent in advance of a phone conversation I hope to
schedule with either you or your foundation's director this week.
As you know, beyond my work in feng shui and end-of-life care, for the
past nine years, the Foundation my wife Joan and I founded has
worked globally to prevent PTSD in children traumatized by
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natural disasters and tragic events. This is really the heart of my
work.
Through an initiative we call Second Response, our teams implement
simple, body-centered and proven therapeutic events offered as
"PLAYshops" with two specific goals:
Reduce the PTS (Post Traumatic Stress) that exists in the
affected population after a disaster and prevent the onset of full-
blown PTSD;
Build on-the-ground capacity that is both cost-effective and
easily replicated through pre-emptive trainings of local providers
before a disaster strikes.
We have seen remarkable results and recently retained a mental health
care researcher to further investigate the efficacy of our method
that makes a measurable difference in preventing PTSD.
This past year, our Board of Directors, Advisory Council and staff —
including physicians, clinical psychologists, entrepreneurs and
PhD educators — have guided our efforts to develop and
position Second Response as a "best practice methodology", the
broader, two-year goal of which is collaboration with larger
disaster response organizations. Toward this end, we have
begun accumulating past research that will become a "White
Paper" further authenticating our approach; in addition, we are
developing a proposed research methodology, a copy of which is
attached below.
This effort will result in a significant expense that we estimate to be
$100,000 covering staff salaries and infrastructure needs to
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underwrite the two-year study. Michelle Wang, PsyD, currently
Program Director for the San Francisco Veteran's Administration
PTSD Clinic, is developing and will oversee the specific
methodology under guidance of our Board of Directors and
Advisory Council.
All of us feel that this is an opportunity to significantly reduce the
extraordinary burden that full-blown PTSD places upon an
affected population. Our time-tested interventions commence
shortly after first responders stabilize communities at the
conclusion of the emergency phase of disaster response. For
example, in the case of the current disaster in the Philippines, this
would mean getting on the ground there sometime in mid-
December.
Costs of our interventions are a fraction of those incurred by local
mental health providers and municipalities as a result of currently
deployed palliative care — interventions that have never been
proven to reduce incidences of PTSD in populations.
It is not our intent to develop a larger infrastructure as a disaster
response agency but rather to continue to focus on developing
effective intervention methodologies that can be incorporated
within existing organizations. Upon the completion of this study, it
is our intent to collaborate with groups like Doctors Without
Borders, Mercy Corps, Save the Children and others with whom
we have worked closely and who would incorporate our
methodologies to create their own Second Response units.
Second Response PLAYshops provide a unique approach and
invaluable opportunity that is otherwise not available in disaster
response. I very much look forward to speaking further with you
about our proposal. I will contact Leslie for direction in this regard.
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In Health and Peace,
Bill
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"Healing is a matter of time, but it is also sometimes a matter of
opportunity." Hippocrates
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