In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this web page explores strategies for individuals to increase their sense of safety and practice self-care while coping. It includes comprehensive lists of tips for staying healthy, connected, calm, and hopeful during unprecedented times.

Disasters and traumatic events have great effects on mental and emotional health, which can cause feelings of stress, anxiety, and worry during and after. This web page explores self-care strategies that can be used while coping with the effects of a disaster to help survivors build resilience and manage stress.

This tip sheet explores retraumatization signs and symptoms that survivors of disasters and other traumatic events may experience. It provides tips for managing symptoms and building resilience.

This tip sheet explores the effects a pandemic can have on an individual’s ability to manage stress and provides coping skills and strategies. It provides information concerning common reactions in adults, children, and teenagers, as well as tips for managing financial stress.

These SAMHSA Disaster Behavioral Health Information Series resources are in one of eight languages other than English. Disaster behavioral health professionals can use these resources to reach individuals in disaster-affected communities who read and speak Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, French, and several other languages.

This tip sheet identifies ways that survivors of disasters and other traumatic events often react to the experiences they may have after an event and offers suggestions for college students to help them cope with disaster-related distress.