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AVI TENENBAUM PFA was founded by Avi Tenenbaum, an expert in Disaster Behavioral Health and Psychological First Aid. His experience includes providing aid for people coping in the wake of numerous large-scale disasters and wars including the Second Lebanon War, Hurricane Harvey, Pittsburg Tree-of-Life Massacre, Haifa 2016 Fires, Covid-19, Operation Cast-Lead, Meron Civil Disaster, Karlin Bleacher Collapse, Sorotzkin Arson Fires, Operation Guardian of the Walls, and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, as well as an estimated 2000 small-scale tragedies, as a psychological first aid provider, trainer, and supervisor.

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Avi is a speaker, trainer, and panel member on the topics of acute trauma and grief, resiliency, addiction, mental health wellbeing, leadership with mental health. Aside from an academic background, Avi has the rank of sergeant as a volunteer law enforcement officer in Israel Police’s operational units as well as being a trained Emergency Medical Technician, giving him first-hand exposure to acute trauma from the position of a first responder in both the EMS & Law Enforcement worlds. Avi is also an EMT, a former Sergeant (vol.) in the Israeli police, and has been operating a security response unit in Israel since 2023. 

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