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The authors present an overview of six free, just-in-time training modules developed to address mental health issues that may arise in response to an influenza pandemic.[Citation: Ayers, K., and Yellowlees, P. The Internet Journal of Rescue and Disaster Medicine. 2013; 9(1).]
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The National Medical Reserve Corps Mental Health Work Group recommends PFA as a standard model of mental health intervention in early response to disasters and other traumatic events.
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This is a guide for communities to help them improve their capacity to respond effectively to disasters and terrorism. It includes information, suggestions, and resources for nine sectors, including business, cultural and faith-based groups and organizations, and first responders.
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This guidance informs parents of common child reactions to earthquakes and provides tips on supporting children after an earthquake.
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This document helps families prepare for a disaster or other emergency. It reviews information families should know before an emergency, such as the location of evacuation routes. It also helps families create an emergency plan and a family communication plan.
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This document helps families prepare for a disaster or other emergency. It reviews information families should know before an emergency, such as the location of evacuation routes. It also helps families create an emergency plan and a family communication plan.
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This press release reports on findings in 2007 of the annual Stress in America survey commissioned by the American Psychological Association.
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This tip sheet provides information on how responders can apply PFA during and in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. It highlights actions to take in interacting with survivors, things not to say or do in providing PFA, and the importance of training in PFA for a range of types of responders.
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This paper examines the impact of public health emergencies on the healthcare needs of people who live in rural areas. The authors provide recommendations for assessing preparedness and ensuring the availability, quality, and continuity of healthcare services for rural residents in the aftermath of a bioterrorism or other public health emergency.
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This publication presents examples from several countries of incorporating gender equality and gender-related issues into disaster risk reduction. Examples come from countries including India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru. Each example includes lessons learned. The publication may be useful to practitioners and policymakers, particularly those who work in rural areas and developing nations.
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This document offers information regarding the role of the American Red Cross in disaster relief work as it relates to pet sheltering. It includes guidance regarding communication and mass care and provides examples of effective programs to support the care of pets.
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This document was created for parents and other caregivers to help them understand what their child may go through after a disaster, and it offers ways to help children following disasters. Basics are taught, and space is provided to write down a child’s answers to questions and behavior, as well as to come up with ways to support a child in feeling better and coping. [Authors: Schreiber, M., and Gurwitch, R.]
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This report presents recommendations from a national consensus conference on how first responders, emergency managers in all levels of government, and communities can incorporate the needs of people with disabilities into emergency preparedness and response.
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This 1.5-hour webinar covers how to treat children who are deaf or hard of hearing, or hearing children of parents who are deaf, who have experienced trauma, including trauma linked to disaster. While the webinar is available free of charge, users need to create an account with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Learning Center and log in to access the webinar.
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This brief explores challenges faced by youth experiencing homelessness and defines trauma and related consequences, such as substance use, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. It includes treatment considerations for mental health and substance use disorder service and treatment professionals when working with youth experiencing homelessness who are coping with trauma or retraumatization.
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This brochure describes harmful workplace stress and notes that this type of stress is its focus. It includes risk factors for job stress, signs and symptoms of stress, suggestions for managing stress, and an assessment tool to help readers figure out their level of job stress. Although designed for teachers, this brochure is applicable to people in many professions.
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This webpage discusses the six signs that indicate that service men and women may need to seek professional assistance with transitioning to everyday life after a deployment.
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Founded to coordinate interfaith recovery work following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, NDIN is an organization composed of subject matter experts who work with faith communities and faith-based organizations in support of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.
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This paper addresses the specific vulnerability of girls and women with respect to mortality from natural disasters and their aftermath and discusses how natural disasters lower the life expectancy of women more than that of men. In other words, natural disasters (and their subsequent impact), on average, kill more women than men or kill women at an earlier age than men.
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This handout provides information for parents including reactions and/or behavior they may notice in preschool-age children after a disaster and suggestions for what to say and do once the disaster is over. This resource is part of the Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Operations Guide, which helps people provide PFA, an evidence-informed, modular approach for assisting disaster survivors.
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This document offers information on how school-age children commonly react to disasters and how parents can respond. It is part of the Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Operations Guide, which prepares people to deliver PFA, an evidence-informed, modular approach anyone can use to assist disaster survivors.
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This guide provides the details of Psychological First Aid (PFA), which it explains is "an evidence-informed modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism." PFA can be used by a range of people responding to disaster, including those who are not mental health professionals.
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Part of the Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Operations Guide, this handout provides parents with tips for how to respond to an adolescent child after a disaster. The document includes adolescents’ possible reactions, how parents can respond, and examples of what parents can do and say.
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Part of the Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Operations Guide, this handout helps parents understand how infants and toddlers may be feeling after disaster. It also lists ways for parents to help their young children cope with disaster. PFA is an evidence-informed, modular approach anyone can use to assist disaster survivors.
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This guide provides the details of Psychological First Aid (PFA), which it explains is "an evidence-informed modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism." PFA can be used by a range of people responding to disaster, including those who are not mental health professionals.
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