Dr. Michael T. "Mick" Maurer is a crisis management expert prepared to train
individuals to be resilient for themselves, their families and their businesses in
New York and throughout the world in response to all hazards which include
terrorism and other potential manmade/systemic/natural disasters.

Mick is a Specialist in the areas of Crisis Management, Disaster Management Training,
Mitigation, NIMS Training, Public Administration Education, Incidents of National
Consequence Training, ICS Training, and Public Advocacy. As well as Mental Health
All-Hazards Disaster Planning, Trauma Counseling, Individual & Collective Responses to
Disasters, CISD, EAP, and Research & Analysis Methods in Disaster Management.
Specializing in the Impact of Violence, Disaster, and War & Terrorism upon
Adolescent Development.



    Services Provided
  • Mitigation
  • Business Continuity
  • Crisis Management
  • Disaster Management
    Training
  • NIMS Training
  • ICS Training
  • Incidents of National
    Consequence Training
  • Planning
  • Public Advocacy
  • Exercise, Drills &
    Table Top Training
  • Distance Learning
  • EAP
  • Program Evaluation
  • Continuum of Care
  • Resource Allocation
  • Mental Health All-
    Hazards Disaster
    Planning
  • Trauma/PTSD
    Counseling
  • Individual &
    Collective Responses
    to Disasters
  • Research & Analysis
    Methods in Disaster
    Management
  • Specializing in the
    Impact of Violence,
    Disaster, and War
    & Terrorism upon
    Adolescent
    Development.
Dr. Maurer has developed, for the Professional Studies Programs of the Paul McGhee
Division of New York University’s School for Continuing & Professional Studies, a  
Bachelor of Science in Critical Infrastructure Protection degree program with
concentrations in Homeland Security, Emergency Management, Strategic Intelligence, or
Business Continuity.  

This degree will be taught entirely with distance technology.   The Paul McGhee Division within
the School of Continuing and Professional Studies was created especially for adult students who
want to go back to college and earn their degrees.

Adjunct Assistant Professor in Department of Applied Psychology:

- NYU Fall 2011 classes:
  • E63.1271.01 Developmental Psychology Across the Life Span T-R 4:55-6:10 - Silver 405
- NYU Spring 2011 classes:
  • E63.1271.01 Developmental Psychology Across the Life Span T-R 4:55-6:10 - Silver 203
  • E63.2138 Human Growth and development T 2:00-3:40 - 48 Cooper 112

Dr. Maurer was the co-founder/curriculum writer and the first director of the
Metropolitan College of New York's Master of Public Administration in Emergency &
Disaster Management degree program. Established in the wake of 9/11, when the national
landscape changed forever, an emphasis on security and crisis management was born.  It was the
first such graduate degree in New York State. When developed in 2003 only the 20th graduate
degree in this academic field in the U.S.  Associate Professor 2001-2005

Adjunct Professor May 2010-to present
"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man
and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards."
- Sir William Francis Butler
Mick Maurer at MCNY
Training a
Resilient Nation
Mick Maurer
Site Meter
Emergency Management
Memorial at NETC
In August 2007 Mick Maurer was hired by the American Red Cross in Greater New York
to become the             Director, Disaster Training & Exercises
Department:      Disaster Planning & Response
Location:              Manhattan
Reports to:           Senior Director, Planning & Preparedness              Now to: Chief Response Officer
Start date:          4 September 2007                                                          Effective: 1 December 2009
Last date:         30 June 2010 (released during RIF due to Recession)

Training and Exercising for a Resilient Chapter

  • Co-Chair Training and Exercises Task Force, American Red Cross in New York State
    Disaster Consortium, 2009-2010
  • Exercise Lead, ARC NY State Consortium Leadership Disaster Exercise, June 2010
  • Chair, ARC Metro NY Regional Training Committee, 2008-2010
  • Member, NYC Coastal Storm Plan Unified Operations Resource Center (UORC) Steering
    Committee, 2008-2010
  • Regional Catastrophic Planning Group for Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and
    Pennsylvania
  • Member, Training and Education Committee, International Association of Emergency Managers     

INSTRUCTOR:
I-700a National Incident Management System: An Introduction

I-100b Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS)

I-200b ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents

09/09/2009 by the New York State
Department of State Office of Fire Prevention & Control
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin
Dr. Mick Maurer
Photo from
theKlaxon.com
Mick Maurer at NYU
•  Advanced Certificate in Psychoanalysis studies begun January
2010 to present; Alfred Adler Institute of New York; NYC, NY

Academic Committee for the development of the New York State
Education Department Licensure-Qualifying Program in Adlerian
Psychoanalysis in:
  • Advanced Certificate in Adlerian Psychoanlysis
  • Professional Certificate in Continuing Education
  • Certificate in Community Education
  • Adlerian Teaching Certificate
  • Group Psychotherapy Certificate
  • Child & Adolescent Adlerian Psychoanalysis Certificate
   Featured in
"Voices in Emergency Management"
at http://theklaxon.com/voices
copyright 2010 MickMaurer.com
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

April 14th, 2010 The panel  "Disaster Strikes - How Best to Organize Relief?"
- Moderator: Dr. Ron Daniels, President, Haiti Support Project

* Dr. Michael T. Maurer, Director of Disaster Training & Exercises, American Red Cross of Greater New York

* Bill de Blasio, Public Advocate, New York City

* Dr. Jean Claude Compas MD., Family Practice Physician

* Matheiu Eugene, New York City Councilmember

* Dr. Joe Leonard, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Agriculture

* Rose Jackson Flenor, Manager of Social Responsibility, FedEx Corporation

* James “Rocky” Robinson, Jr., Founder, Bedford Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Brooklyn, New York

This was at the 2010 National Convention of the National Action Network.

12 noon, Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers.

Presentation: Disaster Strikes How Best to Organize Relief

Not Your Grandmothers Red Cross: Opportunities Available for Undergrad and Graduate Emergency Management
Students - Presented 13th FEMA Higher Education Conference, June 10, 2010

Presenters:      
Mick Maurer, Ph.D.
Director, Disaster Training & Exercises for the American Red Cross in Greater New York
& Adjunct Professor MCNY

James H. Savitt, Ph.D.
Chair, American Red Cross in New York State Disaster Consortium
& Professor at Empire State College

Jacqueline Villafane, Ph.D.
Manager of Leadership Development at ARC/HQ

PDF: Not Your Grandmothers Red Cross

The griffin (or gryphon) crest has been associated with the Morgans of Tredegar, Wales and related families for many centuries.
The griffin is a mythical beast, part eagle and part lion. It was known in Britain from Roman times. In Ireland the worship
of the sun in pre-Christian times was often represented by the Griffin. It later became a symbol of gold - 'yellow light'
Meaning: Valiant soldier - to the death, Vigilance.

Or (Gold) Generosity
Red (Gules) Warrior or martyr; Military strength and magnanimity
Blue (Azure)         Truth and loyalty

Left Shield of the then GRAND DUCHY OF BADEN, a former sovereign state of Germany, lying in the south-west corner of the
empire, bounded N. by then kingdom of Bavaria and then grand-duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt; W. and practically throughout its
whole length by the Rhine, which separated it from then Bavarian Palatinate and then imperial province of Alsace-Lorraine; S. by
Switzerland, and E. by then kingdom of Wurttemberg and part of Bavaria. The Esswein, Schilly, Birkenmeier, Ferenbach
and Allgaier families all came from the Grand Duchy from the 1850s through the 1890’s to unite with the Maurer
and Morgan families in St. Louis.

Right Shield - Definition:  mason -- der Maurer
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a builder of walls of stone or brick, from an agent derivative of Middle
High German mure, German Mauer ‘wall’ (from Latin murus ‘wall’, especially a city wall). In the Middle Ages the majority of
dwellings were built of wood (or lath and plaster), and this term would have specifically denoted someone employed in building
defensive walls, castles, churches, and other public buildings.

Combined connotes Vigilance and Resilience (Mitigation)

3:00–5:00        2nd Round of Tuesday, June 8th Afternoon Breakout Sessions

(7) Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM): A Program to Address Issues of Secondary Traumatization
Among Disaster Workers

Description: This presentation is a Critical Incident Stress Management Program (CISMP) that is designed to anticipate and mitigate the emotional
impact of external and internal critical incidents upon individuals and groups who deliver disaster recovery services.

This comprehensive program provides for immediate and sustained responses to assist disaster workers in effectively minimizing the emotional
detriment of stressful incidents that commonly result from interactions with disaster victims.  These disaster workers are further compromised with
potential for secondary traumatization as they listen to the pain and losses of disaster victims, work longer hours daily and extended work weeks
without sufficient restful breaks.  

This multi-tactic early intervention program is a structured, peer-driven, clinician-guided and supported process designed to provide interventions
to address disaster-related mental health issues.  Primary emphasis is placed on individual peer support for immediate action. Specialized
individual and group support, assessment, and referral to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and other resources are provided by a stress
management clinician.  

Peer Partners participate in a training program which includes:
Ø  An overview of stress assessment and management
Ø  Critical/intervention orientation
Ø  Identification and utilization of peer support techniques
Ø  Event pre-planning, event briefings, defusings and debriefings
Ø  Protocol for responding to an incident
Ø  Basic information on workplace violence

Moderator:     Mick Maurer, Ph.D.
Director, Disaster Training & Exercises
American Red Cross in Greater New York & Adjunct Professor MCNY

Presenters:      Norma S. C. Jones, PH.D., LICSW
Stress Management Specialist, (CISM)
US DHS/FEMA
Virginia National Processing Service Center
Winchester, VA

Phillip Franks, Training Manager
US DHS/FEMA
Virginia National Processing Service Center
Winchester, VA

Jeffery Long, (CISM-Advanced)
Training Specialist, US DHS/FEMA
Virginia National Processing Service Center
Winchester, VA

Reporter:       Rick Bacon
American Military University

Summer 2011 Teaching:
  • Economic and Social Trends and the Organization of Services (MPA 532 SYS) S
    11:50-1:30
  • Evaluating Service Delivery Systems (MPA 512 SYS) S 2:00-3:40
  • Initiating and Managing a Disaster Recovery Plan / Field Experience (MPA 532
    PCA/ MPA 532 FLD) F 6:00-9:30
Spring 2011Teaching:
  • Economics of Hazards and Disasters ( (MPA 511 SYS MEW1) S 9:00-11:40
  • Evaluating Service Delivery Systems (MPA 512 SYS MEW2) S 1:00-2:40
  • Identification of Organizational Disaster Needs / Field Experience (MPA 522
    PCA/ MPA 522 FLD) F 6:00-9:30

Developed for online Instruction for Fall 2010:
  • Impact of Disaster on Cultures and Communities (MPA 511 SEL)
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Instructor - AWR-118-1 Awareness and Response to Biological Events
  • Train the Trainer on June 3, 2010
    NYS Office of Homeland Security and Louisiana State University National
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Dean Humphrey Crookendale, JD
School of Management
MCNY
MCNY at 431 Canal at Varick Street, NYC
Professor Ali Gheith, MS
Director
MPA in Emergency and Disaster Management
School of Management
MCNY
Dr Mick Maurer

Subject Matter Expert with SigmaTech, Inc to develop a Federal Emergency Management Agency NRF/NIMS
State Offered G Course.  The primary focus of this course development effort is to educate and train emergency
management/response personnel through a state delivered “G” course on how our nation’s incident management
doctrine (NIMS) supports our response doctrine (NRF). The primary target audience for this course is state, local
and tribal government executives, private sector and non-governmental organizational leaders and emergency
management professionals.  

•        Provide students with a framework for understanding the components of NIMS and how they complement
each other
•        Highlight the importance of NIMS to the implementation of our national response doctrine (NRF)
•        Highlight the importance of the five key principles of our national response doctrine
•        Help formulate state and local guidance for the implementation of NIMS and NRF concepts, terminology and
principles
•        Identify mechanisms for the implementing the doctrine
•        Develop proactive partnerships for implementing the doctrine
Instructor, Empire State College-SUNY Center for Distance Learning

  • Psycho-Social Impacts of Mass Disasters (Spring 2011, Fall 2011)
MCNY 2011 Ad Campaign (wording is not mine)
MCNY 2004 Ad Campaign
FCI-TV The Morning Eye 04-21-2011

On Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010, book author Joe Flood
stood at a podium in the front of a packed room at Metropolitan
College of New York, reading from the first chapter of his book,
The Fires. His audience was composed of Emergency
Management students and professors from the graduate
program at MCNY, as well as visiting guests from the field.

Joe Flood, third from the right.

MCNY President Vinton Thompson, Dean Humphrey Crookendale,
and Program Director Ali Gheith, welcomed a small number of
students and faculty members from the MPA in Emergency &
Disaster Management (EDM) program, who had the pleasure of
being part of an intimate conversation with Kay Goss, CEM—the
former Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA).  

Kay Goss, fifth from right