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This resource collection includes materials to help both mental health treatment professionals and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources address helping individuals manage stress during the pandemic, self-care, and approaches to assistance such as Psychological First Aid.
View ResourceThis blog about public health preparedness features articles, event and training information, and stories about preparedness advances in the field. Posts address topics such as infectious disease, pandemic influenza, and healthcare preparedness.
View ResourceASTHO provides links to guides, training, articles, and webinars about various topics in public health preparedness at the state and territorial level. Materials come from 1-year pilot projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support development and implementation of health-focused hazard and vulnerability assessments for specific metropolitan statistical areas. Also included are materials from ASTHO.
View ResourceThis tip sheet provides information to help public health emergency workers manage stress. It discusses ways to cope with the challenges of public health emergency work and suggests self-care activities.
View ResourceThe authors of this PowerPoint presentation share information about the negative effects that a pandemic can have on the mental health of affected community members. The PowerPoint presents information on emotional responses, grief and loss, and mental health planning and response.
View ResourceThis 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.
View ResourceOn this web page, EPA provides information for Flint, Michigan, residents and the public on the response to the discovery in 2015 and 2016 that lead was leaching into the city’s drinking water and that many Flint children had unsafe levels of lead in their blood. Updates on EPA’s response and current Flint water quality are presented, as are materials specifically for Flint residents.
View ResourceThe ACF is responsible for Federal programs that promote the economic and social wellbeing of families, children, individuals, and communities.
View ResourceThis fact sheet offers information on triage, early psychological interventions, and patient education to help disaster responders help themselves, colleagues, and survivors of a radiological incident.
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