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 web page defines secondary traumatic stress and explores its effects on traumatized children and their families. It includes resources and links to another web page providing strategies for prevention, intervention, and building resiliency.

This part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s website links to information about terrorism and violent events and how they may affect children and families. Also provided are subpages regarding school shooting and mass violence events, as well as links to related resources.

This part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's website defines childhood traumatic grief and explores its effects and possible interventions. It also links to related resources.

This web page highlights resources that explore incidents of gun violence. It includes relevant books for adults and children, podcast episodes, news articles, and other resources that highlight strategies for coping with acts of terror, planning for emergencies, and building resilience.

This toolkit is designed to help providers and communities to improve linkages to care and increase care integration for people who use drugs. Although the toolkit was developed for the State of Maryland, it may be useful to other states and localities working to improve care for people who use drugs.

This collection of tip sheets was created for a variety of community members to promote healing and community resilience after experiencing a mass violence event. The highlighted tip sheets focus on family members of mass violence victims, survivors, first responders and recovery workers, healthcare practitioners, children, and more.

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.

This press release reports on findings in 2007 of the annual Stress in America survey commissioned by the American Psychological Association.

This web page discusses 50 possible signs of stress and how stress affects the body.

Presents 2012 data from an annual nationwide survey that measures attitudes and perceptions of stress among the general public and identifies leading sources of stress, common behaviors used for stress prevention and management and the impact of stress on our lives.

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center offers technical assistance, training, and materials to increase the knowledge and expertise of suicide prevention practitioners and other professionals serving people at risk for suicide. Resources include information on school-based prevention programs, a best practices registry, and state information.

TF-CBT Web is a web-based training course for learning Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. It includes streaming video demonstrations, clinical scripts, cultural considerations, clinical challenges and other learning resources related to TF-CBT.

This video prepares practitioners to provide trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) to help children with traumatic grief. It features role playing of each component of TF-CBT.

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network Learning Center is a training portal that offers free online education related to child and adolescent trauma. Over 300 of the free online courses offer continuing education certificates, and the portal includes over 200 webinars.

This paper reports on a study in which researchers examined associations between and among the death of a pet, perceived social support after a hurricane, and psychological distress. [Citation: Lowe SR, Rhodes JE, Zwiebach L, Chan CS. J Trauma Stress. 2009 Jun;22(3):244-7. doi: 10.1002/jts.20403.]

Part of SAMHSA’s Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) series, this handbook provides programs that treat people with mental and substance use disorders with information and tools for disaster planning.

This fact sheet for healthcare practitioners contains information relevant after a terrorist incident. It includes self-care tips, pointers for assisting others, and challenges associated with behavioral healthcare work following a terrorist attack.

The RIC, according to its website, provides services for rural communities, local officials, organizations, business, and rural citizens working to maintain the vitality of America’s rural areas. The RIC website contains links to current information on a wide variety of rural resources.

This study examined the psychological effects of quarantine via an online survey conducted with a convenience sample of 129 persons who were quarantined in Toronto, Canada, during the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.

The authors used random telephone surveys to ask Hong Kong residents general and behavioral health-specific questions about the impact of the epidemic on their lives. [Citation: Lau JTF, Yang X, Pang E, Tsui HY, Wong E, Wing YK. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Mar;11(3):417-424. doi: 10.3201/eid1103.040675.]

The U.S. Constitution establishes a trust relationship between the U.S. government and federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes; this relationship has been further supported and defined in treaties, laws, decisions of the Supreme Court, and executive orders.

This website provides a listing of publications and testimonies related to various behavioral health issues among military personnel.

This paper examines the impact of public health emergencies on the healthcare needs of people who live in rural areas. The authors provide recommendations for assessing preparedness and ensuring the availability, quality, and continuity of healthcare services for rural residents in the aftermath of a bioterrorism or other public health emergency.