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This tip sheet lists reactions to stress that are common among children and that caregivers, parents, and teachers may see during and after an infectious disease outbreak. It also suggests ways that adults can help children manage stress.
View ResourceThis fact sheet provides tips on how to remain safe and healthy after a hurricane or a flood. It focuses on prevention of foodborne illness, as well as prevention and treatment of illness from other sources and of injuries that become more likely after a hurricane or flood.
View ResourceThis 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.
View ResourceThis fact sheet provides tips for team leaders on how to monitor and minimize their stress when managing teams during traumatic events.
View ResourceThis fact sheet provides tips on how to remain safe and healthy in the event of a flood.
View ResourceThis fact sheet discusses common physical symptoms of stress.
View ResourceThis fact sheet provides information for disaster managers and planners about the challenges that women face in East Asia and the Pacific. The document highlights key findings, explains why women are at higher risk, and describes recommendations for best practices in the planning, decision-making, and implementation processes.
View ResourceThe webpage provides 27 downloadable tip sheets on many topics relating to faith-based organizations and disasters.
View ResourceThis fact sheet provides three steps for older adults and their caregivers to take in planning and preparing for disasters and other emergencies: make a plan, stock an emergency medical kit, and make a disaster supplies kit. For each step, several items and elements to include are listed.
View ResourceThese 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.
View ResourceThis fact sheet describes the effect of depression on members of the military and their families. It also covers how the primary care setting can be used to help with early identification and intervention.
View ResourceAt this part of its website, AACAP provides an overview of the topic of disasters and how they affect children, and how parents can offer support, and then presents links to fact sheets, answers to parents’ frequently asked questions, and policies and articles for clinicians. The webpage also features information and links for finding help for a child or adolescent struggling with his or her disaster reactions.
View ResourceThis fact sheet suggests positive ways for parents to talk with their children about the economy and its effects on the household.
View ResourceThis 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.
View ResourceThis fact sheet provides information on earthquake preparedness, safety during an earthquake, and what to do after an earthquake.
View ResourceThis fact sheet provides information on how to prepare for a wildfire.
View ResourceThis fact sheet explains normal reactions to a disaster, what a survivor should do to cope, and where to seek additional help if needed.
View ResourceThis fact sheet provides information on what to do before, during, and after a flood.
View ResourceThese 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.
View ResourceThese 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.
View ResourceThis website provides links to fact sheets about bioterrorism agents, such as anthrax, botulism, brucellosis, plague, smallpox, tularemia, and viral hemorrhagic fevers.
View ResourceThis tip sheet provides guidance to help leaders understand their role in individual and community recovery following a tragedy such as a natural or human-caused disaster. This resource offers leaders communication strategies for the immediate aftermath of a tragedy as well as throughout the recovery process. The list of common symptoms of grief can also help leaders provide support and plan recovery activities.
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This online article suggests ways for families and school staff to behave around children, and talk with children, to help them cope with the emotional effects of acts of terrorism. Adults are also advised to monitor their own emotions and levels of stress and engage in self-care activities.
View ResourceThis 10-page fact sheet describes the effects that media coverage may have on Children and Youth DBHIS both those directly affected by the disaster and also those who live far from the disaster site but see coverage in the news of the disaster. It identifies ways in which school personnel can support students in coping with media coverage and their emotions about the disaster. [Authors: Houston, J. B., Rosenholtz, C. E., and Weisbrod, J. L.]
View ResourceThis fact sheet explains the types of issues that reservists may experience when they make the transition from active duty back to their former job or workplace. Appropriate for both the military and civilian community, it can also be used as an educational tool for professionals.
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