2. Mark R. Marquez, LCSW, MSW, EdD Fayetteville State University eSocialWorker LLC

3.  During crises, such as disaster, the luxury of an overabundance of time, resources, or personnel generally does not exist. Additionally, communication within and between responders and response systems can be confusing.

4.  It is under such circumstances when a rapidly implemented behavioral health assessment and triage tool could be helpful to crisis responders and systems in making and communicating informed decisions about how to best utilize time and available resources.

5.  It is the product of 25+ years of professional clinical experience combined with the synthesis of functional tools and scholarly concepts.

6.  While the model has proven effective for the author it has yet to be field tested and thusly requires further study through use to determine if it is a reliable tool.

7.  Global Assessment of Functioning Scale is one of, if not the primary behavioral health assessment of functioning scale used by behavioral health clinicians.

8.  Situational Fluidity is described as the ability to be used by a wide variety of responders in a wide variety of situations with a wide variety of individuals WITHOUT modification of the tool or instrument.

9.  Color does influence an individual’s response (Fortmann-Roe 2011) including level of attentiveness (Camgoz et al. 2004).  Shah et al. (2003) indicates, that in stressful situations complicated by significant time constraints, the use of color-coding to be beneficial

20. Mark R. Marquez, LCSW, MSW, EdD Fayetteville State University Department of Social Work e SocialWorker LLC mmarque2@uncfsu.edu mark@marquez.com www.eSocialWorker.com