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This web page explores community violence data, including data surrounding youth and vulnerable populations, to highlight the important preventive strategies communities can pursue. It provides community members with resources, including databases and technical guides, to encourage the continued collection of data and strategies for building community resilience.
View ResourceThis web page highlights resources that explore incidents of gun violence. It includes relevant books for adults and children, podcast episodes, news articles, and other resources that highlight strategies for coping with acts of terror, planning for emergencies, and building resilience.
View ResourceThrough this center, SAMHSA provides training and technical assistance to American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities, tribal SAMHSA grantees, and individuals and organizations who work with AI/AN people.
View ResourceNoting the prevalence of suicide and substance misuse in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth, this resource from the Education Development Center highlights the possibility of promoting protective factors in AI/AN communities to support prevention. It includes examples of positive AI/AN youth development programs and explores unique community factors that can protect against suicide and alcohol misuse.
View ResourceThis series of videos covers topics in suicide prevention that are presented by leaders in the field. Lasting no more than 6 minutes, each video touches on a key idea in preventing suicide and emotional distress.
View ResourceThis presentation from the Education Development Center explores strategies for supporting substance misuse prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native populations. The suite of tools provided considers culture-based best practices to ensure traditions, values, and community strengths are measured and supported to promote community health.
View ResourceThis resource from the Education Development Center explores cultural factors unique to American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations that influence the prevalence of substance misuse and mental health challenges. The guide identifies strategies for assessing and planning programs for promoting community and individual wellness, with special attention to cultural strengths in AI/AN populations.
View ResourceThis tool from the Education Development Center highlights the importance of culturally informed practices in substance use and mental health programs for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. It features 71 programs and practices in tribal communities, some of which have documented evaluation findings showing a reduction of substance misuse and promotion of well-being in tribal populations.
View ResourceHHS is the U.S. Government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
View ResourceThis tip sheet describes grief and the grieving process, both of which are often associated with disasters. It suggests ways to support survivors, as well as highlighting signs of complicated or traumatic grief or other grief that may require professional mental health care.
View ResourceThese teleconferences, held each Tuesday, address the communication concerns, and needs of state, local, and territorial health communicators, as well as partner organizations. Topics include risk perception, clear communication techniques, and the speed at which new information is presented to the public. Slides, audio files, and transcripts of past teleconferences are available.
View ResourceDeveloped for public health officials and leaders around the world, this document presents guidance for response under WHO’s strategic Zika response framework.
View ResourceThis document was developed in early 2016, at a point at which increases in microcephaly had occurred in several countries at the same time as the Zika outbreak in those countries, but Zika during pregnancy had not been found to cause microcephaly.
View ResourceCompatible with iPhone, iPad, and Android devices, this app is designed to support responders in meeting the mental health and substance use-related needs of disaster-affected communities. It can be used to access preparedness and response resources and find local mental health and substance use disorder treatment services for referrals.
View ResourceHumanitarian professionals and practitioners developed this handbook to improve gender equality programming in humanitarian efforts and programs. The handbook discusses the basics of gender equality, the coordination of gender equality in emergencies and the elements of conducting effective coordination, and the numerous gender issues with health, food, shelter, and education in emergencies.
View ResourceAccording to its online description, the objectives of the Rural Healthy People 2010 project are to employ a survey of State and local rural health leaders to identify rural health priorities, to synthesize available research and other publications on these priorities, to identify and describe models for practice employed by rural communities to address these priorities, and to disseminate this information to rural communities.
View ResourceThis center provides training and technical assistance for behavioral health service providers serving Hispanic and Latino communities and supporting prevention of substance use and violence. The center hosts webinars and provides resources that promote best practices and culturally competent behavioral health prevention, treatment, and recovery services.
View ResourceThis web page from the Capacity Building Center for Tribes provides information regarding trauma and healing for Native American communities. It highlights videos, presentations, case studies, a mobile application, and more resources focused on historical trauma, protective factors, resilience, and trauma-informed practices to best serve and support tribal communities.
View ResourceThis toolkit from NICWA explores strategies and best practices for engaging tribal families in systems of care. The resource describes strategies that incorporate cultural competence, can be applied to behavioral health and disaster response programs and services, and prioritize the wellness and needs of tribal families and communities.
View ResourceThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention serves as the national hub of efforts to develop and apply disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities to improve the health of the people of the United States.
View ResourceAt this part of its website, the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) provides links to suicide prevention plans for 54 states and territories. In addition, SPRC lists contact information for officials and organizations within the state or territory that lead suicide prevention initiatives, as well as suicide prevention grantees and reports on efforts in suicide prevention within the state or territory.
View ResourceThis section of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center’s website features information for people who work with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals and communities. It presents basic information about the issue of suicide among AI/AN people, tools to begin to address the issue, best practices in suicide prevention and health promotion in Native communities, and links to a wide range of resources.
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