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Last updated:
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Keith Lang
Director of Project Recovery, Lutheran Social Services
Keith Lang is the Director of Project Recovery, a FEMA funded crisis-counseling program that provides outreach services to disaster survivors impacted by Presidential declarations as a result of flooding in Wisconsin in 2007 and 2008. He has been with Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan since 2007 and is Chairperson of the Wisconsin Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster.
Prior to his current position, Keith served as the Disaster Mental Health and Emergency Human Services Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services from 1996 until 2004. His prior experience in disaster related activities included responding to the Weyauwega train derailment, Siren and Ladysmith tornados, 2004 Wisconsin flooding and resettlement of Hurricane Katrina survivors to Wisconsin. From 2004 to 2007 he directed the Disaster Human Services Project funded by the Wisconsin Division of Public Health providing training, technical assistance and consultation to Wisconsin County Human Services Departments and private agencies. He has written and managed six previous FEMA crisis-counseling grants and administered a Center for Mental Health Services Emergency Mental Health Capacity Expansion Grant issued to the state in 2003 and 2004. In 2003 he was invited to serve as a member of a national focus group sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create mental health all-hazards disaster planning guidance to states.
Keith has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Florida State University. In 2005 he retired from the Army Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel having served as Commander of the 467th Medical Detachment. He is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College and served in both Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.