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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 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 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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Developed for local and federal planners, this report builds upon lessons learned from several disasters to offer recommendations for improving climate change preparedness programs. It addresses the opportunities available for disaster relief programs and service providers to help communities build long-term resilience.
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This tip sheet defines historical trauma and describes impacts of historical trauma in American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) cultures and communities. The tip sheet also provides tips to help responders prepare to support AIAN communities that have been affected by disasters.
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This tip sheet notes the diversity of Native American cultures in the United States, presents some general commonalities across many Native American cultures and societies, explains historical trauma and how tribes may think about and respond to disasters, and suggests ways to support tribal communities that have experienced disasters. References and related resources are listed.
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This fact sheet presents individual and organizational approaches for preventing and managing stress among emergency response and public safety workers. It describes normal reactions to a disaster, signs of the need for stress management, and strategies for handling stress.
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This tip sheet identifies ways that survivors of disasters and other traumatic events often react to the experiences they may have after an event and offers suggestions for college students to help them cope with disaster-related distress.
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This half-hour webcast helps disaster behavioral health professionals learn about working with American Indian and Alaska Native populations before, during, and after a disaster or other traumatic event. It helps provide an understanding of cultural values shared by Native Americans, and how to work with tribes to understand their perspectives and experiences.
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This report summarizes key findings and lessons learned from multiple case studies across the nation to discuss climate crises and the importance of climate adaptation planning. Through multiple case studies of disasters, it highlights decision-making guidelines for local and federal leaders working to address needs of vulnerable populations and community members during climate crises.
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This guide offers a comprehensive analysis of the impacts of climate change on human well-being by presenting findings on the effects of climate crises and disasters on mental, physical, and community health. Based on these findings, the guide includes recommendations for engaging the public on climate change topics and ensuring community resilience.
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Developed for programs serving people experiencing homelessness, this fact sheet offers information and guidance for supporting youth who are homeless and who have a trauma history, which may include traumatic experience associated with disaster. It includes a definition of complex trauma and explores its effects on youth experiencing homelessness, offering providers recommendations for conducting intake assessment and providing ongoing care.
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This LACCDR work plan offers questions and worksheets as a guide for communities and organizations seeking to build resilience.
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This tip sheet explains how teens may experience traumatic grief following a disaster or other traumatic event. It describes 10 ways teens may feel, behave, and express themselves as they go through a period of grief. It also suggests ways parents or caregivers can support them and identifies signs that a teen might benefit from seeing a mental health professional.
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This tip sheet provides information about the traumatic grief that Children and Youth DBHIS may experience after a disaster or other traumatic event. It explains that school-age children my experience traumatic grief differently from adults and suggests tips for parents and caregivers to support them in moving through and coping with grief.
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This tip sheet explains how young children may experience traumatic grief, which can arise after a disaster or other traumatic event in which the child lost a loved one. The tip sheet lists ways in which young children may go through and express traumatic grief and offers suggestions for parents and other caregivers to support children in coping.
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Created for behavioral health professionals, this SAMHSA Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) gathers experience and information from experts in behavioral health to highlight best practice guidelines for pursuing a trauma-informed approach and providing trauma-specific services. The resource provides a research-based explanation about trauma and its impacts on substance use and mental disorders to explore intervention and treatment principles.
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This paper describes a survey of nearly 90 patients in a program in New York City for treatment of dependence on opioids when Hurricane Sandy struck the area.
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This report assesses the exposures and risks communities face due to climate change and provides policymakers with suggestions for managing impacts. It considers the mental and physical health of vulnerable populations to provide adaptation tips and decision-making guidance.
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This infographic shows where to go and what to do in the event of a radiation emergency (i.e., get inside, stay inside, stay tuned for updated instructions from emergency response officials).
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This study investigated experiences of people in a treatment program for dependence on opioids (e.g., heroin, Vicodin, OxyContin) in New York City around the time of Hurricane Sandy. Findings highlight how programs and individuals can and do adapt during hurricanes and other disasters to ensure ongoing management of addictions.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and Android and BlackBerry devices, this app is designed to support responders in meeting the mental health and substance use-related (behavioral health) needs of disaster-affected communities. It can be used to access preparedness and response information and to find local behavioral health services for referrals.
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This fact sheet discusses general principles for disaster mental health response, including the importance of identifying survivors with psychiatric disorders and providing them treatment. It also introduces frameworks for disaster mental health response, and case identification for posttraumatic stress disorder, the most common psychiatric disorder after disasters.
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Compatible 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.
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This fact sheet is designed for parents and contains information on how to talk to children about tsunamis.
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