This toolkit helps service providers for the aging learn more about alcohol and medication misuse and mental illness among older adults. It provides tools such as a program coordinator’s guide, suggested curricula, and handouts, including screening tools to help identify problematic alcohol use and depression in older adults.

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.

Developed for institutions of higher education, this guide incorporates lessons learned from recent incidents and recommendations from experts in the field to provide guidance for emergency planners revising and updating existing emergency operations plans. This resources was jointly developed by the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services.

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.

This part of FEMA’s website describes IS courses offered through FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI). Designed for first responders, emergency managers, and the public, EMI IS courses cover a range of emergency management topics.

This web page maintained by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, provides information and resources on influenza, including recent news stories and journal articles.

The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Fire Administration developed this manual in an effort to provide pandemic influenza best practices, models, and protocols for emergency responders.

The International Consortium for Organizational Resilience offers professional development, training, and credentialing; an online library; and membership to help professionals increase the resilience of their organizations and communities.

The mission of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, according to its website, is to provide leadership, education, training, consultation, and support services in comprehensive Intervention and disaster behavioral health services to the emergency response professions, other organizations, and communities worldwide.

The International Stress Management Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world a less stressful place. It seeks to advance the education of professionals and students, facilitate sound research in several professional interdisciplinary stress management fields, and improve human welfare by providing the tools to understand and manage stress.

The Johns Hopkins Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center has developed a variety of mental health preparedness trainings that are available online.

Individuals dealing with layoffs or unemployment can use the information on this webpage to help understand the grieving process and to learn about coping with the stress of job loss.

This fact sheet offers advice to leaders on crafting effective messages about high-stress topics, such as public health emergencies. It echoes other risk and crisis communication resources in highlighting the importance of developing messages in advance of a crisis.

This fact sheet provides tips for team leaders on how to monitor and minimize their stress when managing teams during traumatic events.

The document presents a model set of minimum competencies in public health emergency law for mid-tier public health professionals. The model includes nine key competencies in three domains: systems preparedness and response, management and protection of property and supplies, and management and protection of persons.

In this resource, AARP, which works to enhance quality of life for older adults, provides guidance for disaster-affected communities to help them rebuild and recover in ways that make them better places to live for people of all ages. AARP points out that the U.S. population is aging and argues for the importance of making communities accessible to and livable for older adults and those of all ages.

This tip sheet from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach notes that farming is one of the most stressful occupations and also that farmers typically love their work and have likely found ways to manage job-related stress. The tip sheet identifies common sources of stress for farmers, symptoms of stress, and ways to manage stress.

The authors assess the long-term psychological effects on civilians who were exposed to sulfur mustard gas. Many civilians reported emotional distress even 20 years after exposure.

Supported by entities including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the RAND Corporation, this project is an effort to understand and increase community resilience to disasters, pandemics, and other public health emergencies. Its website features tools that communities across the United States may find useful.

This book presents discussion and recommendations from a workshop on ways to improve mass casualty response in rural areas. The book includes a review of the incident that led to the workshop, a 2008 bus crash in Utah, as well as another rural mass casualty incident; challenges in rural emergency response; and ideas for improving response to rural mass casualty incidents.

This section of the CDC website lists several online preparedness resources that are specific to chemical emergencies.

FEMA shares five steps for developing a business preparedness program.

This web page describes the Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) grant program, which provides grants to local educational agencies and institutions of higher education to support recovery after a violent or other traumatic incident. It includes links to further information about Project SERV and contact information for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Supportive Schools and Disaster Recovery Unit.