Created for behavioral health professionals, this SAMHSA Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) gathers experience and information from experts in behavioral health to highlight best practice guidelines for pursuing a trauma-informed approach and providing trauma-specific services. The resource provides a research-based explanation about trauma and its impacts on substance use and mental disorders to explore intervention and treatment principles.

This video provides information regarding traumatic grief in children, addresses the three main types of trauma reminders, and illustrates how families can experience the pain of loss and then heal. It features physicians and experts in the field and is appropriate for parents and others who care for children.

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 webpage provides information about planning and preparedness for caregivers of people with Alzheimers disease and dementias, which are conditions that are more common among older adults than other age groups. In addition to general emergency planning tips, the page provides ideas and links to help plan for continuity of pharmacological care, safety for the person with dementia, and access to medical records.

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.

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.

This guide describes how a variety of interventions (e.g., isolation, quarantine, and child and adult social distancing) may be implemented in response to a pandemic flu outbreak. The resource highlights the significant role that behavioral health professionals would play in supporting these interventions and provides tools for testing community public health emergency plans.

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.

ISTSS promotes advancement and exchange of knowledge about severe stress and trauma. This knowledge includes understanding the scope and consequences of traumatic exposure, preventing traumatic events and ameliorating their consequences, and advocating for the field of traumatic stress.

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.

inTransition is a voluntary coaching and support program designed to support military service members as they move between health-care systems or providers.

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates and equips local teams to support their communities in and after disasters, providing services such as light search and rescue and disaster medical operations. This 6-hour course is designed to prepare individuals for a classroom-based CERT Basic Training course in their area, which is required before they can serve as CERT volunteers.

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 webpage describes ELCA’s work in disaster response and assistance. It includes links to current efforts, opportunities to volunteer with Lutheran Disaster Response, and resources for congregations.

This web page provides links to information from Mental Health America about mental health and the military for military members, their children, and other members of their families. It also features links to non-Mental Health America resources in areas including health benefits, online screening tools, and support for wounded soldiers.

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 fact sheet discusses common physical symptoms of 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.

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.

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

This guide lists three steps to preparedness - getting a kit, making a plan, and being informed and describes the activities that should be involved in each of these steps.