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.

This guide provides information about drought as it affects the health of the U.S. public. Behavioral health-related information is discussed in various sections of this document, particularly beginning on page 27.

Part of SAMHSA’s Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) series, this manual provides best-practice guidelines for practitioners offering mental health and substance use disorder treatment services to individuals experiencing homelessness. It defines types of intervention and prevention, stages of recovery, and forms of treatment through discussion and vignettes, as well as a literature review.

This website provides information on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment, which it describes as "an approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment to people with substance use disorders and those at risk of developing these disorders."

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 1-hour course provides general knowledge of how disaster affects children and adolescents. The course also emphasizes skills such as administering Psychological First Aid to children in the aftermath of a disaster and screening them for mental disorders in the months that follow. The course is provided through Prepare Iowa, a partnership of the Iowa Department of Public Health and the University of Iowa.

This checklist and tip sheet provides general steps that emergency responders should take to prepare to meet the needs of individuals with limited speech. The tip sheet reviews different methods of augmentative and alternative communication, including speech generating devices and personal communication displays.

This fact sheet provides information for disaster managers and planners about the challenges that women face in East Asia and the Pacific. The document highlights key findings, explains why women are at higher risk, and describes recommendations for best practices in the planning, decision-making, and implementation processes.

This article features infographics that show how Ebola is similar to and different from several other infectious diseases, including H1N1 pandemic influenza, seasonal influenza, and malaria. It includes a table with detailed information about Ebola and other infectious diseases.

At this web page, CDC lists and describes resources for training in emergency preparedness and response for public health workers, healthcare workers, and public leaders. Resources include core competencies, as well as training centers and organizations offering courses on public health preparedness and community planning and engagement.

This report presents recommendations from a national consensus conference on how first responders, emergency managers in all levels of government, and communities can incorporate the needs of people with disabilities into emergency preparedness and response.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers numerous resources related to disasters and pregnant women and women with newborns as well as older women to offer guidance to health, mental health, and public health officials.

This web page is a part of the Rural Health Research Gateway and provides publications and articles specific to emergency preparedness and response. It also links to information on studies on rural emergency preparedness and response.

Provided through Prepare Iowa, a collaboration of the Iowa Department of Health and the University of Iowa, this 1-hour course is intended for anyone who may come into professional contact with disaster victims. The objectives of the course include defining disaster and trauma and understanding how proximity to a disaster event affects the potential for a traumatic response.

In this 1-hour course, information is provided on mental health assessment and intervention with disaster survivors, as well as on making sure that services provided after a disaster are culturally appropriate.

This page provides information about funding opportunities for state and local public health systems. It is part of the CDC’s effort to help public health departments nationwide improve their ability to respond to and prepare for emergencies. The page includes emergency response funding for crises and outbreaks such as Zika, Ebola, and H1N1.

The CDC earthquake page contains helpful information and resources on earthquake preparedness, surviving during an earthquake, and what happens after an earthquake.

This web page provides information on emergency wound care after a natural disaster, including basic steps that healthcare providers can use to asses and manage wounds and rashes.

This 2-hour course covers the mental health effects disaster may have on survivors, including acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. It provides public health professionals with information about common mental health consequences of disasters, strategies in the immediate response to a disaster that can help with prevention of mental disorders, and public health approaches to post-disaster mental health.

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.

Part of the CCP, the ISP funds short-term disaster relief and crisis counseling services to help communities in the immediate aftermath of disaster. The ISP lasts up to 60 days after a Presidential disaster declaration that includes Individual Assistance. State, territorial, and tribal governments are eligible to apply and must submit an ISP application within 14 days of the Presidential disaster declaration to be considered for funding.

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 document is a resource is for emergency responders and federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial officials charged with communicating with the public in the immediate aftermath of an improvised nuclear detonation in the United States. It provides information, instructions, and messages that emergency responders can share with the general public in the initial moments following the explosion, before federal assistance arrives.

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.