This LACCDR work plan offers questions and worksheets as a guide for communities and organizations seeking to build resilience.

Mennonite Disaster Service is a volunteer network of churches that assists disaster survivors in the United States and Canada.

NECHAMA is a nonprofit organization through which volunteers of all faiths provide natural disaster preparedness, response, and recovery services across the country. They work to offer help to those who are the most vulnerable or have the greatest need after a disaster.

Founded to coordinate interfaith recovery work following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, NDIN is an organization composed of subject matter experts who work with faith communities and faith-based organizations in support of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.

In this tip sheet, NDIN discusses the need for religious leaders to accommodate the needs of vulnerable populations during the disaster preparedness and response effort. The tip sheet identifies several vulnerable populations and presents preparedness and response best practices to assist individuals within these populations.

HHS is the U.S. Government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.

The mission of the center is to build resilient communities by working with faith-based and community organizations. In collaboration with federal, state, and local partners, the center supports the DHS’s strategy of sustainable risk management by building capacity and resiliency among faith-based and community organizations.

A ministry of The United Methodist Church, UMCOR provides disaster relief, disaster response training, supplies, physical and behavioral health support, and other services in the United States and around the world.

Developed to support religious leaders in helping their congregations after Hurricane Sandy, this tip sheet offers advice on how to effectively provide community and congregational support after a disaster. It also features a sidebar on working with children. The information the tip sheet provides will be useful to religious leaders after any disaster.

This tip sheet is designed to guide religious leaders as they develop disaster plans and move themselves and their congregations through preparedness, immediate response, and short- and long-term recovery. Based on hurricane planning, preparedness, response, and recovery, this tip sheet can be used by religious leaders to prepare for and respond to any type of disaster.

This tip sheet discusses the central role that faith communities and faith-based programs have in disaster recovery. The sheet covers the unique disaster-related supports and services that religious leaders and communities of worship can offer, general tips to help determine and plan to provide support, and suggested roles for communities of faith in disaster mitigation and preparedness.

The Salvation Army provides several basic disaster services, such as disaster response training, food service, donations management, and recovery. The organization responds to disasters across the United States and around the world.

This fact sheet discusses the importance of self-care for religious leaders as they provide support for others after a disaster. It defines and describes compassion fatigue, explains why burnout is dangerous, and offers tips for self-care.

This website provides links to information on suicide prevention that is tailored for specific settings, such as the workplace, faith communities, schools, colleges and universities, and foster care. Each link goes to a page offering guidance and resources for a specific setting.

This webpage provides information on the current funding opportunities available from the OVC. Topics for grant funding opportunities include antiterrorism and emergency assistance programs and mass violence events.

This website, managed by the HHS and operated under the governance of the Office of Management and Budget, provides a comprehensive database of federally funded grant opportunities. The search can be narrowed down by topic, agency, eligibility, and more. The website also offers information on how to register for grants.gov, how to receive updates, how to apply, and other important information for anyone seeking funding.

This webpage offers information on FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMPG). Through the HMGP, FEMA provides funding to states, U.S territories, and federally recognized tribes, and those entities receive applications for funding from businesses, private nonprofits, and individuals (though individuals are sponsored by local governments and do not apply directly).

This guide for increasing safety and building resiliency is directed at places of worship. The guide includes information on identifying threats and reducing vulnerabilities through prevention, protection, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

This tip sheet discusses how religious leaders can adapt their place of worship to be used as a shelter, service center, warehouse, or volunteer staging area during disaster response and recovery.

This article discusses the importance of self-care and how it provides the foundation clergy need to be effective figures within their religious communities. It highlights the self-care practices religious leaders need for resilience at all times, including in the event of a disaster.

This online article introduces the concept of spirituality, explains how spirituality relates to trauma, identifies aspects of trauma most likely to affect spirituality, and suggests ways for spiritual and religious leaders and mental health care practitioners to support people with trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Links to additional information about PTSD are provided.

This checklist was developed primarily for an influenza pandemic, but it can also be used in response to other public health emergencies. The list helps define tasks for community members, public health partners, and labs.

Nazarene Compassionate Ministries takes a holistic approach to responding to both natural and human-caused disasters around the world. They supply people and communities in crisis with a network of supporters and tools to move toward further preparedness and personal stability.

NYDIS is a nonprofit organization comprising faith-based service providers and charitable organizations who work to ensure that communities are prepared for disasters and to support disaster response and recovery in New York City. Among its offerings is an online resource collection with tip sheets and materials to support planning and recovery.

This 27-page report provides extensive guidelines that are based on international research with a global disaster perspective. The guidelines recommend how the humanitarian community can meet the needs of older people and include strategies for supporting older people in contributing to disaster recovery for their families and communities.