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Created for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander families, this guide provides detailed steps for preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a disaster event. It includes an emergency supplies checklist families can use, emergency plan considerations, and strategies for coping after a disaster.
View ResourceThis guide provides First Responders agencies with the steps to follow to ensure good health for their workforce. The authors offer an overview of occupational health and safety, review comprehensive occupational health and safety programs, discuss assessing current efforts, and present challenges and provide recommendations for overcoming them.
View ResourceCreated by the U.S. Fire Administration, this manual provides emergency responders with guidance on pandemic influenza best practices, models, and protocols. The guide details suggestions to protect first responders and their families, operation adjustment for emergency preparedness and response maintenance, emergency service telecommunication references, and additional useful tools, including a staff planning tool and gap analysis activity.
View ResourceCompanion animals are often essential for individuals experiencing homelessness to reduce stress and enhance resilience. This resource provides best practice guidance for treating this bond as a family unit when providing individuals experiencing homelessness with services, shelter, and support during disasters.
View ResourceDeveloped by the Louisiana State Animal Response Team (LSART), this plan describes how evacuation points and household pet shelters within the State of Louisiana will be operated during a disaster. The plan aims to enable residents with household pets to evacuate during an emergency, as well as to control and support the humane care and treatment of household pets during such events.
View ResourceThis guide provides information on Psychological First Aid for Schools (PFA-S), an adaptation of the Psychological First Aid evidence-informed intervention. It provides information on how to use PFA-S to support child and adolescent students, adults, and families in the aftermath of a school crisis, disaster, or terrorism event.
View ResourceThis resource highlights the importance of disaster services that include and account for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, and two-spirit (LGBTQI2-S) community. It identifies barriers the LGBTQI2-S community may face, ways disaster planners and responders can mitigate or address these barriers, and tips for finding and using a person’s preferred pronouns.
View ResourceThis guide provides information for first responders who are working with survivors who have lost a loved one to suicide. The manual includes information on reducing the stigma of suicide, assisting survivors, and supporting first responders.
View ResourceThis guide provides law enforcement agencies with the steps to follow to ensure good health for their workforce. The authors offer an overview of occupational health and safety, review comprehensive occupational health and safety programs, discuss assessing current efforts, and present challenges and provide recommendations for overcoming them.
View ResourceThis manual presents an adaptation of Psychological First Aid for professionals working with youth experiencing homelessness. It explores childhood trauma and offers strategies for establishing engagement, offering practical assistance, and creating a safe space. The manual includes worksheets and examples to refer to when offering services.
View ResourceThis guide provides suicide facts and figures, information on the role of first responders in suicide prevention, and information on helping someone who is suicidal. It offers information that may be helpful to managers of first responders as they plan, implement, and assess training and programs to prepare responders to work with individuals experiencing suicidality or scenes in which a suicide has been completed.
View ResourceThis 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.
View ResourceDeveloped by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network with the National Center for PTSD, Psychological First Aid (PFA) is, according to this guide, “an evidence-informed modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism.” The guide describes how to use PFA after a disaster and includes worksheets responders can use for tracking interactions with survivors.
View ResourceDesigned for a range of types of disaster responders, this pocket guide describes the cycle of stress in the body and highlights signs of stress. It also presents tips for managers to prevent and manage stress for themselves and their workers during disaster response, as well as offering simple, practical stress management techniques for responders.
View ResourceThis booklet provides first responders with several exercises to aid in the functions of emergency response. It includes a toxic stress self-assessment, a self-care guide, and a breathing exercise guide to reduce stress. The manual further provides resources specific to Wisconsin, as well national resources first responders can use in times of need.
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