Published work : True worked extensively in developing and training others in mental health disaster assistance . She helped organize disaster mental health assistance for the residents of San Francisco after San Francisco was hit by the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989 . Later , she went to Japan to provide mental health assistance to disaster victims after the Kansai-Awaji Earthquake in 1995 . For six months , she trained mental health professionals on disaster mental health assistance as a visiting Fulbright Senior Scholar at Kobe University Medical School . Similarly , she later worked with the Japanese Community and Cultural Center of Northern California ( JCCCNC ) to train Japanese disaster workers in San Francisco in disaster mental health assistance . She continued with her disaster assistance work in 2011 after the Tohoku Region Disaster when she organized mental health disaster training for a select group of workers from the affected Tohoku region
Tohoku Region Disaster
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Reiko True