Developed by the World Health Organization, the AUDIT is a brief (10-item) screening tool that primary care practitioners, healthcare paraprofessionals, and individuals can use to screen others, or themselves, for problematic alcohol use. The AUDIT is provided in both interview and self-report versions and includes illustrations and measures of standard drinks.

This toolkit helps service providers for the aging learn more about mental illness and substance use disorders in older adults, including focus on alcohol and medication use. It provides tools such as a program coordinator’s guide, suggested curricula, and handouts.

This issue of The Dialogue, SAMHSA DTAC’s quarterly newsletter, features articles about the response to Ebola in Africa, including measures taken to support responders during and after their work. It also covers the experience of a provider who helped with part of the response to Ebola in Dallas, Texas, when he and others were challenged with supporting the quarantine of an individual who had been exposed to Ebola and was homeless.

This section of the CDC website provides information on COCA, which prepares clinicians to respond to emerging health threats and public health emergencies by communicating relevant and timely information on disease outbreaks, terrorism events, and disaster response.

This treatment manual for clinicians uses cognitive behavioral therapy for acute stress disorder.

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.

CTG Web is a follow-up training course to TF-CBT web that teaches therapists how to apply TF-CBT to cases of child traumatic grief. The course also includes streaming video demonstrations, clinical scripts, cultural considerations, clinical challenges and other learning resources related to TF-CBT and tailored for childhood traumatic grief.

The goal of this 60-minute podcast is to assist disaster behavioral health responders in providing culturally aware and appropriate disaster behavioral health services for children, youth, and families affected by natural and human-caused disasters.

This webinar provides an overview of the challenges journalists face covering disasters and how mental health professionals can collaborate with the news . It covers how professionals can help journalists cover children and disasters, and how to assess whether disaster plans are -friendly.

This guide is intended to serve as a general briefing to enhance cultural competence while providing services to American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

The mission of the Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence, according to its website, is "to promote[s] state-of-the-science traumatic brain injury care from point-of-injury to reintegration for service members, veterans, and their families to prevent and mitigate consequences of mild to severe TBI [traumatic brain injury]."

Disabled-World.com is an independent health and disability website that provides information on topics related to seniors and disability. This section of the website provides links to resources specific to disasters and emergency planning for seniors and people with disabilities.

This fact sheet discusses the physical and mental health issues that affect each gender differently. The document also stresses the importance of maintaining a gender perspective in emergencies, how to provide gender-responsive health services in emergencies, how to address the physical and psychosocial trauma of gender-based violence in emergencies, and the guiding principles for providing support to survivors.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health (OWH) was established in 1991. According to its website, it works to improve the health and sense of well-being of all U.S. women and girls. It aims to promote health equity for women and girls through sex- and gender-specific approaches. OWH develops programs, educates health professionals, and disseminates health information to motivate behavior change in the public.

FEMA implements the CCP as a supplemental assistance program available to states, U.S. territories, and federally recognized tribes after a Presidential disaster declaration that includes Individual Assistance. After the award of this grant, the state, territory, or tribe works with contracted provider agencies to hire and train crisis counselors to conduct outreach in the affected areas.

Designed for first responders, disaster responders, emergency managers, mental healthcare practitioners, and others, this curriculum helps those supporting disaster-affected communities to provide services that are appropriate and effective for people of all cultures.

Designed for public health workers including mental and substance use disorder providers and practitioners, healthcare providers and practitioners, first responders, and emergency planners, this 1-hour training provides an overview of the psychological challenges communities may face after a disaster.

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).

At this part of its website, AACAP provides an overview of the topic of disasters and how they affect children, and how parents can offer support, and then presents links to fact sheets, answers to parents’ frequently asked questions, and policies and articles for clinicians. The webpage also features information and links for finding help for a child or adolescent struggling with his or her disaster reactions.

The American Psychological Association provides an overview of disasters and their mental health impacts and presents links to articles on the impacts of a range of types of disasters. Also provided are links to news articles and related publications by the American Psychological Association.

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 tip sheet discusses the needs of individuals with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders after a disaster. It also covers key considerations for healthcare practitioners and others who provide services and formal and informal support after disasters for individuals with co-occurring disorders.

In this online article, the NIA provides guidance for caregivers in ensuring preparedness of someone with Alzheimers disease for a disaster or other emergency. The article lists supplies to have on hand, key points to cover in planning for an evacuation, and what to do if a caregiver gets separated from someone with Alzheimers.

This checklist and tip sheet provides general steps that emergency responders should take to prepare to meet the needs of individuals with limited speech. The tip sheet reviews different methods of augmentative and alternative communication, including speech generating devices and personal communication displays.