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.

This manual provides guidance for prescribers, administrators, and program managers in pharmacological treatment of people with co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder and opioid use disorder. The manual also provides links to information about psychosocial interventions.

The Ask Suicide-Screening Questions tool is a brief (20-second) assessment that healthcare professionals can administer in a variety of settings (emergency department, inpatient medical unit, primary care clinics) to gauge suicide risk in patients. The toolkit website explains how to administer and respond to screening test results.

Part of SAMHSA’s Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) series, this manual provides best-practice guidelines for practitioners offering mental health and substance use disorder treatment services to individuals experiencing homelessness. It defines types of intervention and prevention, stages of recovery, and forms of treatment through discussion and vignettes, as well as a literature review.

Part of SAMHSA’s Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) series, this handbook provides programs that treat people with mental and substance use disorders with information and tools for disaster planning.

This publication includes sections to help substance use counselors work with clients with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. It also includes information for administrators to help them ensure that their substance use treatment programs include components to support clients with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The guide also features a literature review that has been updated since it was first developed.

This 1-hour course provides general knowledge of how disaster affects children and adolescents. The course also emphasizes skills such as administering Psychological First Aid to children in the aftermath of a disaster and screening them for mental disorders in the months that follow. The course is provided through Prepare Iowa, a partnership of the Iowa Department of Public Health and the University of Iowa.

This website from Kids Health presents basic pandemic influenza information that parents or other caregivers can review with Children and Youth DBHIS.

This brochure provides information regarding the emotions one might experience after the death of a pet. It reviews the stages of grief, discusses the difficult decision regarding whether or not to get another pet, and provides guidance on remembering the pet.

This story was developed to help young children and their families talk about feelings and worries they may have after they have experienced an earthquake. The story describes children’s reactions and talks about how their parents help them to express their emotions and feel safer. In the back of the booklet, there is a parent guide that suggests ways that parents can use the story with their children.

This children’s book was developed to help young children and their families talk about feelings and worries they have after experiencing a hurricane. The story describes children’s reactions and talks about how their parents help them to express their emotions and feel safer. In the back of the booklet, there is a parents’ guide that suggests ways that parents can use the story with their children.

This book for children follows two characters, Trinka and Sam, as they learn how to prepare for a tornado. It helps children to understand common reactions and feelings they may experience before, during, and after a tornado.

This 47-page booklet tells the story of Trinka and Sam, two mice who are friends and neighbors who survive a tornado and experience and cope with reactions, with help from their parents. It is designed to help children who have survived tornadoes to reflect on their experiences, and to help parents and other caregivers to talk with their children and support them in coping.

This booklet tells the story of Trinka and Sam, two young mice who are friends and neighbors who survive a wildfire. The booklet covers effects a wildfire can have on a community, as well as the emotions and behaviors children may display after a wildfire.

This section of the website of the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is for professional researchers, mental health treatment practitioners, and others who focus in their work on helping people cope with trauma. The website brings together free, in-depth continuing education courses with topics ranging from PTSD in older adulthood to cross-cultural considerations to suicidality to resilience.

These fact sheets from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network discuss challenging financial circumstances and economic hardships that can negatively affect youth, families, and communities. The series offers practical ways to address the challenges during economic hardships by improving a sense of safety, calming, self- and community efficacy, connectedness, and hope.

This web page provides information on the current funding opportunities available from the Office for Victims of Crime. It highlights grant funding opportunities in response to mass violence events and provides guidance for those interested in applying.

In this app designed for children in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, participants help cities prepare for four types of natural disasters (earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes).

This website explains actions the general public can take to remain safe and healthy in the event of an earthquake.

These fact sheets from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network discuss challenging financial circumstances and economic hardships that can negatively affect youth, families, and communities. The series offers practical ways to address the challenges during economic hardships by improving a sense of safety, calming, self- and community efficacy, connectedness, and hope.

This web page provides an overview of the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and the risk factors that may make it more likely for children to develop PTSD. It also describes the signs of PTSD in children and adolescents and different techniques to treat PTSD.

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress is dedicated to advancing trauma-informed knowledge, leadership, and methodologies. The Center’s work addresses a wide scope of trauma exposure from the consequences of combat, operations other than war, and terrorism, to natural and human-caused disasters and public health threats.

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.

QPR is a suicide prevention training for participants to be able to recognize the warning signs of suicide and question, persuade, and refer people at risk for suicide for help.

This guide offers strategies for teens to develop their own resiliency.