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This toolkit provides information, guidance, checklists, and other resources to help communities incorporate assistance for victims into their mass violence and terrorism preparedness and response efforts. The toolkit may be useful to behavioral healthcare professionals, victim service providers, emergency managers, and others involved in planning and responding to mass violence and terrorism.
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This newsletter issue examines research related to traumatic stress and suicide after disasters. It attempts to answer a number of research questions focusing on topics that may be of interest to disaster behavioral health professionals.
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This recorded webcast describes an incident involving a person in Texas who was experiencing homelessness when he got sick with Ebola virus disease in 2014. The webcast features firsthand experiences, lessons learned, and best practices for disaster behavioral health services in relation to Ebola and other public health emergencies.
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This guide summarizes information from SAMHSA’s Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 57 to provide clinicians and other behavioral health professionals with evidence-based best practices for providing trauma-informed services. It reviews trauma-informed treatment objectives, potential issues for retraumatization, possible reactions from individuals receiving services, and strategies for pursuing trauma screening and assessment.
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This fact sheet presents five key recommendations for health departments in planning to provide aid and assistance to people with disabilities in disasters or other emergencies. Recommendations include analyzing the population of people with disabilities in their jurisdiction, including people with disabilities in all emergency planning efforts, and ensuring accessibility for all people with disabilities during a disaster or other emergency.
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This fact sheet is designed for individuals coping with job loss. The authors include information on strategies for family communication, self-care, and management of family finances during unemployment.
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This course was developed to help professionals recognize and meet the needs of traumatized youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ). The course aims to teach about the unique needs of this population, leading to more effective treatment and better engagement. The course is available free of charge, but an NCTSN Learning Center account must be created to access it.
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This mobile app provides health professionals with information and tools to identify and assess a patient at risk of suicide. It also offers communication tips and resources for treatment and other support to which health professionals can refer patients.
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This is a self-test from "Tears of a warrior: A family’s story of combat and living with PTSD" (posttraumatic stress disorder) that can help military personnel determine if they are experiencing normal levels of anxiety and stress after a deployment, or if they are experiencing symptoms of PTSD. It can be taken alone in complete privacy and includes a score sheet.
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This site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health, was created to help girls ages 10–16 learn about health, growing up, and issues they may face. This page focuses on explaining posttraumatic stress disorder, exploring symptoms, and providing tips for coping with natural disasters, school violence, and other events.
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This hour-long webcast provides information for disaster behavioral health professionals about providing culturally appropriate services for children and families affected by disasters. It also describes disaster reactions children and youth might experience and how to support children after disasters.
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This webcast, which runs for about an hour, provides information that can be used to assess and strengthen cultural awareness practices in disaster behavioral health programs and services. The webcast provides guiding principles for cultural awareness and discusses lessons learned from past disaster behavioral health programs.
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This journal article reports on a survey to assess emergency preparedness of U.S. parents and guardians of children with developmental disabilities.
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This toolkit describes acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder and the risk factors associated with trauma. It also describes interventions that can be used in times of crisis. Near the end of the toolkit is a list of related resources.
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This tip sheet explains sheltering in place, lists common reactions people have, and suggests ways to cope with the stress that sheltering in place often entails.
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Developed for shelter staff members, this fact sheet provides guidance for supporting families and children experiencing homelessness. It includes a definition of complex trauma, which may involve trauma linked to a disaster, and explores its effects on caregivers and children who are homeless, offering recommendations for providing support.
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This article covers best practice guidelines for helping adults with intellectual disabilities to cope with their responses, including posttraumatic and grief responses, to disasters. The authors emphasize focusing on resilience and the strengths that people with intellectual disabilities can offer to their communities. [Authors: Ballan M, Sormanti M, Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal. 2(3).]
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This guide and toolkit provides an overview of the current state of healthcare infrastructure. It offers recommendations for promoting resilience in public health in preparation for the possible impacts of climate change. Created for healthcare professionals, policymakers, and disaster planners, this resource allows users to develop disaster-specific preparedness and recovery plans.
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In this brief presentation (about 17 minutes), the speaker provides information about common individual and community reactions to public health emergencies, identifies populations whose members may be particularly at risk during public health emergencies, and suggests ways for people to cope.
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This tip sheet discusses how to cope with grief after community violence. It lists common signs of grief and anger and offers tips for helping children with grief.
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This tip sheet from SAMHSA DTAC identifies signs of stress that are common during infectious disease outbreaks, ways to maintain physical and mental health, and signs that you may need help from a mental health professional.
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Individuals experiencing homelessness often experience traumas that cause them to be especially vulnerable during disasters. This manual defines trauma and highlights the need for a trauma-informed approach when providing services and support to communities that have survived trauma.
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This tip sheet provides tips for disaster response workers transitioning back to routine work after responding to a disaster or traumatic event. It focuses on stress management, fatigue, and emotion management to provide coping strategies to first response workers.
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This tip sheet describes compassion fatigue and its components, burnout and secondary traumatic stress. It offers tips for coping with compassion fatigue, and it also describes compassion satisfaction and notes ways to foster compassion satisfaction among members of your response team.
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This tip sheet provides guidance for managers in supporting members of their team who return from disaster deployment, as well as other members of their team who are adjusting to the return of the responder. It suggests ways to build support into the work environment, help address issues common among responders returning to work, and identify and follow up with staff members who may need additional support.
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