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This toolkit helps service providers for the aging learn more about alcohol and medication misuse and mental illness among older adults. It provides tools such as a program coordinator’s guide, suggested curricula, and handouts, including screening tools to help identify problematic alcohol use and depression in older adults.
View ResourceThis toolkit shares the story of how the Sesame Street characters Grover and Rosita prepare for emergencies. Resources include videos; guides for families, educators, and communities; a family emergency plan template; and an emergency kit checklist.
View ResourceThis toolkit helps states and localities include the needs of special populations, including people with disabilities and other functional needs, in their disaster plans and disaster response processes.
View ResourceThis 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.
View ResourceAccording to the NCTSN website, this toolkit "provides school administrators, teachers, staff, and concerned parents with basic information about working with traumatized children in the school system."
View ResourceEvery year, CDC promotes flu vaccination nationally through a mixed- campaign. This toolkit contains information, strategies, and resources (e.g., press release templates, a speech-writing tip sheet) to help public health planners, spokespeople, educators, and other health professionals engage in messaging.
View ResourceThis toolkit provides information, guidance, checklists, and other resources to help communities incorporate assistance for victims into their mass violence and terrorism preparedness and response efforts. The toolkit may be useful to behavioral healthcare professionals, victim service providers, emergency managers, and others involved in planning and responding to mass violence and terrorism.
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Created for those who work with families experiencing homelessness, this toolkit provides organizations and other professionals with guidance for becoming trauma-informed and addressing the needs of those who have experienced traumatic stress and events. It identifies steps for completing a self-assessment to recognize successes and challenges, explains the value of a trauma-informed approach, and identifies next steps.
View ResourceThe American Association of Suicidology maintains a collection of online toolkits and briefs that cover a breadth of topics related to suicide. Materials cover topics such as engaging the media as a partner in prevention, suicide prevention for the military, crisis support for people with autism, and tools for survivors.
View ResourceThis online toolkit from the Washington Department of Health has resources to help make homes and communities safer from suicide. Included in the toolkit are webinars, trainings for healthcare professionals, videos, and more.
View ResourceThis toolkit explores the importance of self-care and resilience building for professionals in health care and mental health and substance use disorder treatment fields during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a case scenario for participants to identify signs of stress and highlights strategies for developing a mental health and wellness plan.
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This document addresses the needs of school-aged youth in Indigenous communities by providing tools for educators, administrators, and mental health and substance use disorder treatment professionals to support resilience building and well-being. It includes a historical review, case scenarios, and best practices based on cultural awareness practices.
View ResourceThis toolkit provides information for organizations supporting emergency preparedness, response, and recovery in rural communities. It features evidence-based approaches and models and promising practices for successful emergency planning and preparedness, response, and recovery in rural areas. Topics addressed include types of emergencies, cross-cutting issues, and funding for rural emergency preparedness and response.
View ResourceThe National Council for Mental Wellbeing has resources to prevent overdose. Designed for local health departments, they focus on peer support services and overdose response. They include two reports for health departments and archived webinars.
View ResourceThis guide can help teachers understand how children react to natural disasters and identify signs of stress through their students’ behavior and academic performance. The authors share strategies and activities teachers can implement to help students cope with their feelings.
View ResourceThis toolkit is designed to help providers and communities to improve linkages to care and increase care integration for people who use drugs. Although the toolkit was developed for the State of Maryland, it may be useful to other states and localities working to improve care for people who use drugs.
View ResourceThis toolkit is a comprehensive guide for individuals and communities looking to build resilience in response to the possible effects of climate change. It features a climate explorer, which provides projections for the entire nation; funding opportunities for adaptation efforts; and a customizable search option for regional and local organizations.
View ResourceThis web page provides an overview of the Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART) Intervention, which engages communities in building resilience. To access the toolkit, users must email the Terrorism and Disaster Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
View ResourceCreated for healthcare workers and service providers, the Adult Resilience Curriculum (ARC) is a research-based approach to address stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue for this population during the COVID-19 pandemic. This toolkit features 10 modules for implementing self-care at the individual and organizational level, as well as a podcast and interactive workbook.
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This toolkit features videos and interactive tools for children and youth experiencing stress in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This resource features an optional survey that individuals can complete which will direct them to resources tailored to their needs; a frequently asked questions section focused on stress management; and two sets of tools, one for younger children and their parents, and another for teens.
View ResourceThis 64-page workbook was developed for public health and emergency preparedness planners to help define, locate, and reach at-risk populations in an emergency. The workbook lists steps to learn what populations are at-risk in your community, how to locate them, and how to communicate with them effectively. It also provides checklists, templates, and additional resources.
View ResourceThis guide and toolkit provides an overview of the current state of healthcare infrastructure. It offers recommendations for promoting resilience in public health in preparation for the possible impacts of climate change. Created for healthcare professionals, policymakers, and disaster planners, this resource allows users to develop disaster-specific preparedness and recovery plans.
View ResourceThis web page shares examples of messaging that disaster behavioral health programs can use during a disaster, including blogs, public service announcements, program websites, and social media. In addition to tips for writing messages for different methods of communication, the page also has links to examples.
View ResourceThis web page describes types of print materials (e.g., flyers, tip sheets) and how they can be used by disaster behavioral health programs to reach and inform disaster-affected communities.
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This document identifies three steps to take in family emergency communication planning: collecting information, sharing information, and practicing the plan as a family.
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