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This 13-minute training video teaches crisis counselors how to perform an individual and family crisis counseling encounter. It utilizes role play to highlight crisis counseling skills and ways to interact with survivors. Although the video was developed for Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program staff, it may be useful to anyone providing crisis counseling to disaster-affected individuals and families.
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This 13-minute video teaches crisis counselors to lead and facilitate group crisis counseling encounters and public education sessions. It includes group crisis counseling encounter goals, the difference between group crisis counseling and public education sessions, and tips and best practices. Although developed for Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program staff, the video may be useful to anyone serving disaster-affected communities.
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This 13-minute training video teaches crisis counselors how to perform an individual and family crisis counseling encounter. It utilizes role play to highlight crisis counseling skills and ways to interact with survivors. Although the video was developed for Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program staff, it may be useful to anyone providing crisis counseling to disaster-affected individuals and families.
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This infographic from the Center for Health Care Strategies explores 10 key organizational and clinical practices for trauma-informed care. It includes a brief explanation of possible traumatic events, the impact of trauma on mental and physical health, and guidance for organizations seeking to implement a trauma-informed framework.
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This fact sheet from the Center for Health Care Strategies describes key organizational and clinical practices necessary for ensuring trauma-informed care and services. It explores the effect of trauma on health and identifies key principles at work in different organizations in the field, explaining how they address trauma-informed needs through their efforts.
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This comprehensive toolkit provides communities with information and resources to develop a disaster response and recovery plan that addresses the needs of community members experiencing homelessness. The toolkit features information regarding stakeholders; data regarding homelessness; provider networks; and checklists of key actions for disaster planners to consider before, during, and after disasters.
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This fact sheet explains normal reactions to a disaster, what a survivor should do to cope, and where to seek additional help if needed.
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This fact sheet provides information on what to do before, during, and after a flood.
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This tip sheet explains how to prepare for a hurricane and lists supplies to have on hand and steps to take after a hurricane.
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This checklist offers preparedness ideas and safety concerns before, during, and after a tornado.
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This fact sheet provides information on earthquake preparedness, safety during an earthquake, and what to do after an earthquake.
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This fact sheet provides information on how to prepare for a wildfire.
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This guide lists three steps to preparedness - getting a kit, making a plan, and being informed and describes the activities that should be involved in each of these steps.
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After a disaster or other potentially traumatic event, emergency medical services (EMS) providers may encounter people with suicidal thoughts or behaviors. This 8-page information and tip sheet guides EMS providers in reducing the risk of suicide among those they serve, responding to people who have attempted suicide, and supporting survivors of suicide loss.
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This webpage provides information for older adults on how to deal with the stress of extreme heat, which can place them at high risk for health problems. It also provides a link to the symptoms of heat-related illness and a checklist for caretakers to help them protect older adults from heat stress.
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This guide was developed for policymakers and others responsible for handling communication about a public health emergency, as well as professionals involved in development of risk communication plans. It includes recommendations on integrating emergency risk communication into health and emergency response systems and building trust with emergency-affected populations. The guide is also available in several languages other than English.
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This webpage offers a link to tips for preventing heat-related deaths and illnesses. It also reviews the causes of health-related illness and who is most at risk.
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This tip sheet from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach notes that farming is one of the most stressful occupations and also that farmers typically love their work and have likely found ways to manage job-related stress. The tip sheet identifies common sources of stress for farmers, symptoms of stress, and ways to manage stress.
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This toolkit helps service providers for the aging learn more about alcohol and medication misuse and mental illness among older adults. It provides tools such as a program coordinator’s guide, suggested curricula, and handouts, including screening tools to help identify problematic alcohol use and depression in older adults.
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An updated version of the 2013 interim guidance, this guide provides information to guide nations and regions in preparedness for and response to pandemic influenza. It outlines WHO’s responsibilities related to pandemic preparedness, describes the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, and offers guidance on pandemic influenza risk assessment and management.
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This recorded webinar explores the role emergency shelters must fill during a housing crisis and encourages providers to assess their response plans and practices. It includes data and research related to length of stay, reasons individuals may avoid shelters, and shelter outcomes. The page also links to self-assessments shelter providers can use to determine opportunities for improvement in their crisis response plan.
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This pamphlet provides mental health information that can help individuals prepare for an influenza pandemic. It provides key points on how to maintain a positive outlook, where to seek reliable information, and where to look for additional mental health help.
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Developed for health professionals and community leaders, this guide provides a comprehensive background about climate change and its impacts on individual and community well-being. It includes research-based strategies for addressing and supporting public mental health on individual and community levels.
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OSHA and NIOSH provide workers and their supervisors with guidance for reducing the likelihood of contracting Zika, dealing with exposures and cases among employees, safe travel, and links to related resources.
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This archived hour-long webinar covers emergency preparedness for people with hearing loss. Presenters also share advances in technology developed to better prepare and aid individuals with hearing loss experiencing an emergency.
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