Participants learned how to coordinate and implement a comprehensive family assistance and reunification system that assists the friends and family members of those affected by a terrorist attack or civil emergency in the greater Washington, D.C. area.

• Providing information to family members about their loved ones and facilitating the reunification of families in a secure and comfortable environment
  
  
• Gathering and protecting information about potential victims of an event by collecting and uniformly consolidating data from various facilities 
  
  
• Collecting pertinent information from families from families to facilitate the identification of persons missing, injured or presumed dead
  
  
• Death and injury notification that ensures family member of victims receive information about their loved ones before media broadcasts
  
  
• Working with behavioral health care providers and spiritual care providers to meet the immediate needs of those impacted by a mass casualty event
  
  
• Coordinating the inclusion of local, state, federal, volunteer and community based organizations that provide financial, technical, and casualty assistance programs
  
  
• Providing for the health, behavioral and physical needs of responders
  
  
• Planning for housing, transportation, and basic needs of family members and friends that come to the scene to attempt to locate and assist loved ones