Typhoon Morakot destructed Taiwan on August 8th. Hundreds of the victims are buried by mud in Hsiaolin in Kaohsiung, which was almost completely covered in a mudslide triggered by several days of extremely heavy rainfall. Up to now, at least 619 people are killed and 76 people are still missing in this calamity.

Many NGOs and social workers involved in providing social services and cooperated with governments to help the victims of disaster. Social workers have their own roles in each stage of disaster management cycle. From preparedness plans to recovery plans, social workers took responsibilities for helping victims, implement the recovery projects, reorganize resources and empower to local communities in disaster management. Indeed disaster management must base on the collaboration among government, NGOs, and social workers.

Duo to the key role of the social workers in every stage of disaster management, the experiences need to be shared and to help governments and social workers to face next disaster and to achieve better disaster management experience.

Miliken considered there are at least three uncertain factors including state uncertainty, effect uncertainty and response uncertainty to paralyze government actions. Social worker works with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities in disaster to provide basic and useful social services for those who need assistants. Disaster is become a main issue over recent years. Not only governments but also social workers need to share their practices, experiences and insights to deal with the possible calamity in the future. This international conference invites several academics, social workers, and NGOs to discuss the relevant issues in each stage of disaster management and look forward to reach following purposes:

1. Discuss the actions and practices in disaster rescue
2. Discuss the role of the public, private, third sector in disaster management
3. Discuss the influence on the social work education after disaster
4. Discuss the disaster recovery plan and other issues
5. Provide recommendations to governments, NGOs, and social workers
6. Share the values, practices, and experience among social workers and NGOs in disasters.