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This article provides parents and caregivers with tips for talking to children about racism and acts of violence. It highlights the importance of discussing these topics with youth and provides strategies and resources to support open discussion.
View ResourceThis web page provides parents and caregivers with recommendations for supporting their child’s return to school after experiencing a tragedy, which can include mass violence incidents. It includes guidance for supporting children’s feelings, emphasizing school safety, and seeking further assistance if needed to ensure students’ comfort and resilience.
View ResourceThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers numerous resources related to disasters and pregnant people and people with newborns. This web page features information and links for mental health and public health officials.
View ResourceThis tip sheet explores retraumatization signs and symptoms that survivors of disasters and other traumatic events may experience. It provides tips for managing symptoms and building resilience.
View ResourceThis tip sheet explores the effects a pandemic can have on an individual’s ability to manage stress and provides coping skills and strategies. It provides information concerning common reactions in adults, children, and teenagers, as well as tips for managing financial stress.
View ResourceThis tip sheet explores the signs and symptoms of stress and compassion fatigue experienced by individuals providing healthcare services. It highlights the importance of self-care and stress management and provides tips for staff and team leads to address stress and compassion fatigue.
View ResourceDeveloped for caregivers, this web page explains how traumatic events such as disasters can affect children and explores how children at different age ranges may react to traumatic events. It includes a fact sheet that provides tips for caring for a child’s well-being before, during, and after a disaster, as well as an activity sheet for children focused on stress management and coping.
View ResourceThis fact sheet explains how youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are at an increased risk for a variety of traumatic experiences. It covers the difficulty youth with IDD can have in communicating their needs and behaviors providers should look out for to better understand what is being communicated. The fact sheet also covers screening and assessment, as well as diagnostic considerations and treatment.
View ResourceThis children’s book follows Rosie, a young girl who is struggling after the death of her mother. It provides parents with strategies for offering support and encouraging healthy coping strategies for children struggling with grief. The children’s book is also adapted into a video format.
View ResourceDisasters and traumatic events have great effects on mental and emotional health, which can cause feelings of stress, anxiety, and worry during and after. This web page explores self-care strategies that can be used while coping with the effects of a disaster to help survivors build resilience and manage stress.
View ResourceThis tip sheet notes the importance of developing stress management skills before responding to a disaster, as well as using these skills in coping with the stress often involved in disaster response. It suggests steps to take before, during, and after deployment; identifies signs of stress; and lists sources of additional support.
View ResourceThis tip sheet provides tips for disaster response workers transitioning back to routine work after responding to a disaster or traumatic event. It focuses on stress management, fatigue, and emotion management to provide coping strategies to first response workers.
View ResourceThis tip sheet describes compassion fatigue and its components, burnout and secondary traumatic stress. It offers tips for coping with compassion fatigue, and it also describes compassion satisfaction and notes ways to foster compassion satisfaction among members of your response team.
View ResourceThis tip sheet describes aspects of the transition families go through when a member returns home after a disaster deployment. It also suggests ways that family members other than the responder can navigate the transition and support the responder in coping with the return home.
View ResourceThis tip sheet identifies ways that survivors of disasters and other traumatic events often react to the experiences they may have after an event and offers suggestions for college students to help them cope with disaster-related distress.
View ResourceThis fact sheet helps parents and teachers recognize and address problems in children and teens affected by trauma after a disaster or another traumatic event. It describes signs of stress reactions that are common in young trauma survivors at different ages and offers tips on how to help.
View ResourceThis fact sheet identifies common reactions to a disaster or other traumatic event. It provides tips for reducing stress and for following up if you feel overwhelmed by stress and lists resources for additional support.
View ResourceIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this web page explores strategies for individuals to increase their sense of safety and practice self-care while coping. It includes comprehensive lists of tips for staying healthy, connected, calm, and hopeful during unprecedented times.
View ResourceThis pamphlet provides information on what may define a substance use problem and its relation to trauma. It also discusses the effects of substance misuse on traumatic stress, and how to approach treatment for people with both traumatic stress and substance use issues or conditions.
View ResourceThese SAMHSA Disaster Behavioral Health Information Series resources are in one of eight languages other than English. Disaster behavioral health professionals can use these resources to reach individuals in disaster-affected communities who read and speak Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, French, and several other languages.
View ResourceThis toolkit is designed to support delivery of a training for mental health and other professionals on supporting children with intellectual and developmental disabilities in coping with and recovering from trauma.
View ResourceThis presentation explains that the Federal Government defines individuals with special needs as those with functional needs in an emergency, including needs related to communication, transportation, supervision, medical care, and maintaining independence. The presentation helps professionals comply with laws prohibiting discrimination against people with functional needs and highlights strategies to help address functional needs in emergencies.