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 resource library collection highlights resources focused on mass violence incidents. It provides a collection of tip sheets about mass violence and active shooter incidents and includes links to other topic collections that focus on related topics.

This web page highlights resources to support the development of mass violence and terrorism response plans. It includes the Helping Victims of Mass Violence & Terrorism: Planning, Response, Recovery, and Resources Toolkit and a related webinar training series, resources for survivors and service providers, and opportunities to request training and technical assistance.

This tip sheet explores evidence-based and best practice interventions that can address the needs of individuals affected by mass violence events. It highlights some interventions that are included in training and consultations provided by the South Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center to support community preparedness and response.

This collection of resources compiled by the Improving Community Preparedness to Assist Victims of Mass Violence and Domestic Terrorism: Training and Technical Assistance (ICP TTA) program covers the 16 areas identified by the program as essential for mass violence and terrorism-related preparedness, response, and recovery. The collection features resources for disaster planners, first responders, survivors, and other community members.

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.

The paper presents findings from a survey of health care workers at nine hospitals in Toronto, Canada, following the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Results showed that workers who treated SARS patients were more likely than other workers to experience long-term adverse outcomes, such as burnout, psychological distress, and posttraumatic stress.

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 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 web page provides an overview of the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and the risk factors that may make it more likely for children to develop PTSD. It also describes the signs of PTSD in children and adolescents and different techniques to treat PTSD.

Designed for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities, and continuing care retirement communities, this toolkit contains a suite of resources with information about mental health and suicide prevention. It includes a manager’s guide, fact sheets for residents, and hands-on training tools for professional staff and family members.

QPR is a suicide prevention training for participants to be able to recognize the warning signs of suicide and question, persuade, and refer people at risk for suicide for help.

The Ask Suicide-Screening Questions tool is a brief (20-second) assessment that healthcare professionals can administer in a variety of settings (emergency department, inpatient medical unit, primary care clinics) to gauge suicide risk in patients. The toolkit website explains how to administer and respond to screening test results.

This course prepares participants to apply basic Psychological First Aid (PFA) with children, older adults, the general population, and themselves. The course defines PFA and presents its basic principles, features demonstrations of PFA, and covers how individuals may respond to disaster-related stress. Although the course is available free of charge, registration with the provider's learning management system is required to take the course.

The Headington Institute offers a variety of trainings, educational materials, and counseling and consultation services for humanitarian relief and development workers and emergency responders. It does work to support the well-being of responders and response organizations and the effectiveness of response efforts.

This pamphlet defines and describes indirect trauma, which is sometimes also referred to as compassion fatigue or vicarious trauma. It explains how indirect traumatization occurs, highlights effects of indirect trauma, and suggests ways to cope.

This tip sheet describes grief and the grieving process, both of which are often associated with disasters. It suggests ways to support survivors, as well as highlighting signs of complicated or traumatic grief or other grief that may require professional mental health care.

This web page provides information on the factors that may lead to suicide. It lists warning signs that someone may be suicidal based on their behavior, mood, and what they talk about. It also describes the health factors, environmental factors, and historical factors that put a person more at risk for becoming suicidal.

The Indian Health Service website provides links to resources that may be helpful to healthcare professionals in working with American Indians and Alaska Natives who may be at risk of suicidality and suicide.

This 2-hour training covers children’s needs during disasters and other emergencies from medical and public health perspectives. Presenters discuss the healthcare delivery system, review experiences after disasters, and present strategies for ensuring that children’s needs are met in and after disasters. Although the course is available free of charge, registration with the provider's learning management system is required to take the course.

Pandemic influenza preparedness and response guidance for healthcare workers and healthcare employers.

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale is a 10-question screening tool to identify if a parent is suffering from depression, anxiety, or thoughts of harming themselves. This questionnaire should be conducted and scored by a health professional. This website from Perinatal Services British Columbia includes a scoring guide and questionnaires in 14 different languages.

This website provides an overview of suicide in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities and presents information and resources for providers, patients, and people interested in helping prevent suicide and promote behavioral health among AI/AN communities.

Led by experts associated with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Project 2025 aims to lower the annual rate of suicide by 20 percent by 2025. On its website, the program offers resources in its four areas for intervention: firearms, healthcare systems, emergency departments, and corrections systems. Links to related resources from other organizations are also provided.

This website features several Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) screeners, including the PHQ-9, a widely used scale to assess for depression that also asks about suicidal thoughts. This tool is often used in primary care settings. An instruction manual available for download from the website presents recommended follow-up based on various types of responses to the PHQ.