The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation provides grant funding to a variety of priorities, including disaster relief and recovery. Their work focuses on ensuring funds are available for long-term recovery and enhancement of resilience at the community level. Their website provides information about the grant programs they support and the funding they have available.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 report covers how agencies and organizations used social media to support preparedness, response, and recovery from Hurricane Sandy in 2012. It also describes challenges encountered and how they were addressed - and issues remaining to be addressed to help improve future use of social media as part of disaster management.

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

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.

This WHO checklist provides an overview of the necessary steps for local organizations, state entities, and federal governments to take in pandemic influenza preparedness planning. The resource contains information for public health professionals on how to maintain essential health services, provide treatment, and reduce the risk of the spread of infection.

In this online article, ICOR presents a model of a resilient community called the Community Resilience Framework. The organization also presents and discusses each of the elements of the framework.

This guidebook helps community officials and individuals throughout a region affected by a technological disaster recognize, identify, and mitigate the adverse psychological effects associated with these events. Included are culturally appropriate outreach and community healing strategies, as well as chapters with information for community groups and counselors, individuals and families, and local government and businesses.

The appendices are a companion document to <em>Coping with Technological Disasters: A User Friendly Guidebook</em>. This document includes community surveys, newspaper articles, in-service training, information directories, and reports.

FEMA implements the CCP as a supplemental assistance program available to states, U.S. territories, and federally recognized tribes after a Presidential disaster declaration that includes Individual Assistance. After the award of this grant, the state, territory, or tribe works with contracted provider agencies to hire and train crisis counselors to conduct outreach in the affected areas.

This pandemic influenza response plan outlines response strategies for the State of Arizona. The resource serves as an annex to the Arizona State Emergency Response and Recovery Plan and also contains a workforce support supplement section focused on psychosocial considerations and information needs, which can be used as a stand-alone document.

This toolkit provides state and federal officials, as well as emergency and disaster preparedness directors and coordinators, with key emergency response volunteer concepts and federal and state regulations relevant to emergency volunteers. The toolkit can be used as a resource for educational, training, and planning activities.

The authors present data on a survey conducted in the Netherlands on the expected behavioral responses of people during an influenza pandemic. The research was conducted via a survey based on risk perception theories. [Citation: Kok, G, Jonkers, R, Gelissen, R, Meertens, R, Schaalma, H, and de Zwart, O. BioMed Central Public Health. 2010;10:174.]

This website explains actions the general public can take to remain safe and healthy in the event of an earthquake.

These fact sheets from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network discuss challenging financial circumstances and economic hardships that can negatively affect youth, families, and communities. The series offers practical ways to address the challenges during economic hardships by improving a sense of safety, calming, self- and community efficacy, connectedness, and hope.

The MHBG provides funds to grantees states and U.S. territories to provide comprehensive, community-based mental health services to adults with serious mental illnesses and to children with Serious Emotional Disturbance and to monitor progress in implementing systems through which these services are provided.

Every year, CDC promotes flu vaccination nationally through a mixed- campaign. This toolkit contains information, strategies, and resources (e.g., press release templates, a speech-writing tip sheet) to help public health planners, spokespeople, educators, and other health professionals engage in messaging.