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This guideline is designed to support clinicians in caring for adult outpatients with pain, including clinicians incorporating opioids into pain treatment. The guideline encompasses recommendations for management of pain ranging from acute to longer-term (chronic). It offers guidance for clinicians in deciding whether to start opioid treatment for pain, choosing opioids and determining dosages, and managing risk.
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This resource describes evidence-supported strategies for states and communities to use to implement suicide prevention activities and reduce suicide risk. The guide offers an overview of suicide as a preventable public health problem, explains evidence criteria for inclusion in the guide, and details and expands upon each strategy.
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This SAMHSA-developed guide provides insights and recommendations for disaster responders and first responders, assisting them in effectively handling stress in crisis response situations. It outlines the physiological impact of stress and offers suggestions for both individuals and organizations to encourage and participate in stress management practices.
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Created for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander families, this guide provides detailed steps for preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a disaster event. It includes an emergency supplies checklist families can use, emergency plan considerations, and strategies for coping after a disaster.
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This guide highlights the benefits of disaster planning and preparedness for individuals and communities and provides guidance for creating and implementing a plan and recovering from an emergency event. It includes tips for assessing risks, creating a family evacuation and shelter plan, and returning home after a disaster.
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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.
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many services offered to people who use drugs moved to a telehealth model. The National Council for Mental Wellbeing developed a resource with five strategies on how to continue to provide services in this environment.
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This guide provides First Responders agencies with the steps to follow to ensure good health for their workforce. The authors offer an overview of occupational health and safety, review comprehensive occupational health and safety programs, discuss assessing current efforts, and present challenges and provide recommendations for overcoming them.
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This guide offers information on assessing your performance, using risk management to monitor business performance, managing finances, and strengthening your business in an economic downturn.
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This guide offers information and suggestions to help emergency managers, planners, and responders include individuals with disabilities in disaster planning and preparedness, response, and recovery. It identifies the effects of human-caused disasters, such as terrorist events, on the disability community to encourage effective and inclusive disaster planning.
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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.
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This web page discusses how technological disasters affect communities, including mental health effects, with a particular focus on the Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989. The page features a guide for communities and individuals coping with oil spills and other technological disasters, as well as peer listener training materials, which equip community members to support and counsel each other.
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This guidebook helps community officials and individuals throughout a region affected by a technological disaster recognize, identify, and mitigate the adverse psychological effects associated with these events. Included are culturally appropriate outreach and community healing strategies, as well as chapters with information for community groups and counselors, individuals and families, and local government and businesses.
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The appendices are a companion document to <em>Coping with Technological Disasters: A User Friendly Guidebook</em>. This document includes community surveys, newspaper articles, in-service training, information directories, and reports.
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This PowerPoint presentation provides an interactive guide for school communities creating a plan for supporting mental health and resilience among staff and students. The resource highlights seven core recommendations that include plans for fostering a sense of security and community, working with community partners, and teaching mindfulness.
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Part of SAMHSA’s Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) series, this handbook provides programs that treat people with mental and substance use disorders with information and tools for disaster planning.
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Part of SAMHSA’s Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) series, this handbook provides programs that treat people with mental and substance use disorders with information and tools for disaster planning.
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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.
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This guide explores incidents of violence directed toward places of worship to highlight the importance of holistic incident planning, response, and recovery. It provides incident case studies to promote strategies for implementing effective security and community readiness in faith-based communities.
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This web page describes practices jurisdictions can implement to ensure that they reach whole communities affected by disasters, including individuals with limited English proficiency, individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, individuals who are blind, and individuals in racial and ethnic minority groups. The page also links to several federal websites that can be reviewed to understand federal standards and guidance.
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This guide from New Philanthropy Capital provides a thorough breakdown of trauma-informed approaches and related key terms. Tailored for organizations and charities providing services to children and families with past traumatic experiences, this guide explores the impact of trauma-informed services and identifies next steps for community or organizational leadership interested in this framework.
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This web page provides information, guidance, and tools to help states and localities account for the needs of people with access and functional needs in disaster planning and response. The page features workbooks, toolkits, checklists, executive actions, laws and regulations, and promising practices.
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This guide provides in-depth information on specific hazards, including what to do before, during, and after each hazard type.
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This guide offers strategies for teens to develop their own resiliency.
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Created by the U.S. Fire Administration, this manual provides emergency responders with guidance on pandemic influenza best practices, models, and protocols. The guide details suggestions to protect first responders and their families, operation adjustment for emergency preparedness and response maintenance, emergency service telecommunication references, and additional useful tools, including a staff planning tool and gap analysis activity.
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