This tip sheet offers ways for parents to help their children heal after experiencing a tornado. It helps parents identify behaviors that may indicate trauma and lists specific steps they can take to support their children.

This tip sheet provides prevention, preparedness, and proper conduct guidelines for religious leaders to use during an active shooter crisis. The sheet also includes information on how to help the congregation recover from such an event.

This website provides links to fact sheets about bioterrorism agents, such as anthrax, botulism, brucellosis, plague, smallpox, tularemia, and viral hemorrhagic fevers.

This 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.]

This 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.

This fact sheet explains the emotions and physical signs and symptoms that individuals may experience after a disaster and offers some ways to reduce stress and begin the healing process.

This fact sheet explains the emotions and physical signs and symptoms that individuals may experience after a disaster and offers ways to reduce stress and begin the healing process.

This fact sheet explains the emotions and physical signs and symptoms that individuals may experience after a disaster and offers ways to reduce stress and begin the healing process.

This webpage provides general tips for expecting mothers to get prepared before a disaster and what to do in case of a disaster to help keep you and your family safe and healthy.

This 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.

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 fact sheet provides tips for team leaders on how to monitor and minimize their stress when managing teams during traumatic events.

This fact sheet provides tips on how to remain safe and healthy in the event of a flood.

This fact sheet discusses common physical symptoms of stress.

Individuals who are not directly and physically impacted by a hurricane can still feel anxiety and distress related to the storm. This fact sheet from the APA provides coping tips for dealing with these reactions.

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.

This fact sheet can help individuals experiencing stress at work understand how the body and mind react to such stress and learn about coping skills. The authors also share a link to an online "Stress Smarts" quiz.

These 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.

This 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.

This fact sheet discusses the physical and mental health issues that affect each gender differently. The document also stresses the importance of maintaining a gender perspective in emergencies, how to provide gender-responsive health services in emergencies, how to address the physical and psychosocial trauma of gender-based violence in emergencies, and the guiding principles for providing support to survivors.

This fact sheet describes FEMA’s Disaster Case Management Program (DCMP), through which support is provided for disaster survivors in areas in which a Presidential disaster declaration has been made that includes Individual Assistance. As part of the application process, a team must assess damage in the affected area, and an application must be submitted within 60 days of the disaster declaration.

At 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.

This fact sheet suggests positive ways for parents to talk with their children about the economy and its effects on the household.

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 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.