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 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.

The Johns Hopkins Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center has developed a variety of mental health preparedness trainings that are available online.

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 tip sheet from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach notes that farming is one of the most stressful occupations and also that farmers typically love their work and have likely found ways to manage job-related stress. The tip sheet identifies common sources of stress for farmers, symptoms of stress, and ways to manage stress.

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

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 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.

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 webpage contains five fact sheets about Ebola preparedness. One fact sheet focuses on steps members of the general public can take to protect their health. Another is for health care providers and gives tips on how to recognize Ebola, and also how to talk to patients who are worried about the outbreak. There is also a fact sheet for community leaders that describes effective communication tactics in high-stress situations.

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.

This workbook from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation offers a PowerPoint presentation and a variety of resources to help business become better prepared for a disaster. It includes tips for disaster preparedness and a preparedness checklist.

This publication presents examples from several countries of incorporating gender equality and gender-related issues into disaster risk reduction. Examples come from countries including India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru. Each example includes lessons learned. The publication may be useful to practitioners and policymakers, particularly those who work in rural areas and developing nations.

This part of the HHS ASPR website notes that tribal communities in the United States have distinct cultures, provides some tips for culturally appropriate disaster response with tribes, and links to sources of additional information.

The purpose of this report is to provide a step-by-step planning process guide to ensure the continuation of police work during an influenza pandemic. The resource includes information on identifying a department planning team, gathering information and resources, communicating internally and externally before and during a pandemic influenza, and exercising and updating the plan.

This 50-page document discusses risk communication in the five phases of a public health emergency: preparedness, emergency onset, containment, recovery, and evaluation. It guides officials, agencies, and governments in developing a public health risk communication strategy and plan, emphasizing the preparedness phase as a critical time to lay the groundwork for effective communication in an emergency.

FEMA is the U.S. Government’s principal agency charged with building and supporting the Nation’s emergency management system.

Developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services, this guide is designed to help individual schools and school districts develop and update emergency operations plans in response to potential emergencies. It highlights lessons learned and recommendations to ensure high-quality school emergency operations plans.

In this fact sheet, the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress offers guidance on pandemic influenza preparedness and response. The authors list steps that officials can take to support communities in preparedness, response, and recovery, and to plan for mental health interventions such as effective risk and safety communication and Psychological First Aid.

The NDMC helps people and institutions develop and implement measures to reduce societal vulnerability to drought, stressing preparedness and risk management rather than crisis management. Their website includes a section to help children better understand drought.

This guide outlines the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s work in fiscal year (FY) 2023 in areas including communications and awareness, programs, and research. The guide includes links to information and opportunities to engage in awareness activities and trainings.

This article describes research on the process and effects of merging, after Hurricane Sandy, of substance use disorder treatment programs in New York City to ensure continuity of care. Investigators interviewed healthcare practitioners in the programs to understand challenges and measures they took that proved successful in terms of patient retention and both patient and staff health and well-being following the hurricane.

This journal article explores the issues that occur when medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder is disrupted by a disaster. Through interviews with health professionals and emergency managers, it identifies the elements that should be included in disaster planning in relation to medication-assisted treatment.