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2010 Navy Marine Corps Conference
This year the Marine Corps will be participating in a combined Navy/USMC Combat Operational Stress Control (COSC) Conference, which will be held on 18-20 May 2010 at the Town & Country Resort, San Diego, CA.  The conference will bring together individuals and organizations from around the world to roll out the new combined USMC/Navy COSC doctrine, as well as new policies, research, data, programs, interventions, and best practices pertinent to COSC in both the Marine Corps and Navy.  The conference is open to leaders, chaplains, medical and mental health personnel, Marine and Family Service Center counselors, family members and others with interest in COSC.  Continuing education units (CEUs) will be available for medical and counseling personnel who attend.  We encourage anyone interested to attend and submit presentations for the conference.  Registration is not yet open.

COSC Road Shows
COSC training will be offered to leaders, providers, and all hands at all major installations in the spring of 2010. Dates and locations TBD.

"Cover Me" Video
The Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund has developed a combat stress video with testimonials from the Commandant of the Marine Corps, SgtMaj of the Marine Corps, General Mattis, and many more. Please visit the following website to see the video or to order a free copy of the DVD, http://www.semperfifund.org/resources.html

COSC Quick Series Pocket Guide
HQMC COSC program has introduced a new Combat Operational Stress Control (COSC) Quick Series for Marines Leaders. To order copies of the pocket guides, please send an e-mail to cosc@usmc.mil. Each box has 375 copies. Please specify how many boxes you want.

American Red Cross Course - "Coping with Deployments: Psychological First Aid for Military Families"
We are pleased to announce the release of the new Red Cross course entitled "Coping With Deployments: Psychological First Aid for Military Families". The course provides significant information on Resiliency strategies for adults and children, as well as explaining the steps in performing PFA for others under stress. It has an Adult Section, a Childrens Section and a significant Resource and Referral Section. This new 4 hour course was designed exclusively for military families and is now available to be taught in the following 16 states plus Washington, D.C.: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. The Red Cross plans on making the course available to the rest of the country by late spring/early summer 2009.

For more information, contact your local Red Cross chapter in the states where it is available or the Red Cross liaison working out of the state National Guard headquarters for more information.

Military One Source - Change in Number of Counseling Sessions Offered(BUSINESS WIRE)--Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) - Humana Military Healthcare Services, TRICARE contractor for the South Region, is partnering with the University of Louisville to jointly sponsor a new continuing medical education course (CME) for physicians. Civilian providers throughout the country will have access to an online course on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
Military OneSource announces that effective 1 April 2009, they will increase the number of non-medical behavioral health counseling sessions offered for service members and their families from six to 12 sessions per person per issue. The new 12 session limit applies to face-to face counseling through our Affiliate Providers, Short-Term Solution-Focused Telephonic Consultations, and Online Consultations. They are actively developing an aggressive roll-out plan to ensure the information about this new guideline is appropriately reflected throughout their operational systems, information platforms, policies and procedures, marketing materials, and communications. For participants already authorized for six sessions of counseling before 1 April 2009, requests for six additional sessions will be authorized on a case-by-case basis when the Network Affiliate Provider requests the additional sessions.

Humana Military Healthcare Services Offers Continuing Medical Education Course for Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Online course available through joint partnership with the University of Louisville.

MD Informatics, a small veteran-owned and physician led healthcare information company, developed the content for the two hour course, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury, to address the unique needs of military personnel returning home from active duty. The training will enable civilian providers to recognize and care for active-duty and retired service members who show signs of TBI or PTSD. The University of Louisville will award CME credit as an accredited agency and joint CME sponsor.

Upon completion of the course, physicians will receive two hours of Category I AMA Physician Recognition Award credit. There is no cost to physicians taking the course. For more information, or to register, please visit: www.chse.louisville.edu/courses.html and select the "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury" link.

MD Informatics is a privately held, physician-owned, veteran-owned, Limited Liability Company. Originally established in 1999, MD Informatics began as a partnership between three Medical Informatics fellows at the University of Utah. As a team of highly-skilled physician informatics, educators, instructional designers, and former clinicians, the companys goal is to become a leading provider of medical information technology and Distance Learning solutions for healthcare organizations and individuals worldwide.

COSC Regional Training Coordinators (RTCs)
The COSC RTCs provides guidance, liaison, assistance, and facilitation to the operating forces and other commands in their geographic regions to fully implement COSC programs at every level. Their main objective is to standardize and facilitate COSC training across the entire Corps. They are located at: