Social work as multi-faceted profession plays a vital role at the community level in disaster risk management and/or problems that emerge from disasters such as heavy rain and floods. The social work profession has long been involved with disaster relief, both through the profession’s roots in the provision of wartime relief, and its concern with the peoples’ physical and social environment. Beginning with the Civil War and continuing with the formal role of social workers in Vet Centers, social workers have helped treat the trauma resulting from wartime deployment (Pryce & Pryce, 2000). Social workers are community developers, counselors, educators, policy makers, and coordinators amongst many other roles that they play. As such, they play
