This 90-minute webinar introduces the concepts of white privilege and of microaggressions, which are defined as hostile or negative racial slights or insults that are brief and daily, verbal or behavioral, and which may be intentional or unintentional. The webinar also discusses the traumatic impact of Hurricane Katrina on families, particularly African American families, as well as cultural competence versus cultural humility.

This 75-minute webinar focuses on cultural sensitivity and race and how both affect research on posttraumatic stress disorder in children. These issues are explored in relation to research on Hurricane Katrina and African Americans.

This 25-minute webcast discusses compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction, two effects disaster responders may experience when helping survivors. It also provides tips for disaster responders to manage the negative effects they may experience while on duty.

This hour-long webinar discusses why cultural competence matters in disasters. It also covers potential consequences of lack of cultural competence in post-disaster services and provides resources to help enhance understanding of cultural competence.

Provided for healthcare professionals and others responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, this hour-long webinar recording defines burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and resilience; explains the typical timeline of reactions to disasters; and discusses crisis standards of care. It also covers ways to manage burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury, and to increase personal and organizational resilience.

Designed for healthcare workers, this 1-hour webinar recording covers ways to manage stress (and support colleagues in stress management) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar focuses on the Stress First Aid framework for self-care, stress management, and peer support.

This web page features webinars (upcoming as well as archived) about including people with disabilities in planning for disasters and other emergencies. Webinars cover approaches and strategies at federal, state, and local levels.

This webinar provides information regarding trauma-informed organizations responding to racial trauma to identify strategies and resources to guide organizations addressing trauma and racial inequity. It includes professionals from the field who identify examples of trauma-informed organizations and challenges identified in the field that can be addressed to ensure individual and community resilience.

This recorded webinar explains the importance of stress management in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing an overview of the witnessing model, which highlights the need to be aware and empowered in response to stressful events. It explores stress management and processing techniques that can support resilience.

In this hour-long webinar, speakers present findings from a study that found disparate impacts of disasters on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and other sexual orientation and gender identity minority (LGBTQ+) communities. The webinar explores disaster impacts and how intersections of identity can increase vulnerability. It also includes policy recommendations.

This webinar from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Learning Center provides ways organizations, practitioners, and other professionals can improve their care of and accessibility to individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ) and their families. The webinar is available free of charge, but people must create an NCTSN Learning Center account to access it.

Created for healthcare professionals providing services to individuals or communities affected by disaster events, this recorded webinar explores special considerations that must be addressed for community members who have previous trauma experience or impacts and struggle with homelessness or poverty. It highlights the need for Mental Health First Aid and explores the differences between disaster trauma and other traumatic experiences.

This webinar from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Learning Center outlines techniques practitioners can use for engaging families in helping to care for their children who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ) who have experienced trauma. The webinar is available free of charge, but people must create an NCTSN Learning Center account to access it.

This webinar explores the importance of trauma-informed systems supporting children and families to ensure community resilience and healing. It features a state-level organization in Tennessee to provide an example of an effective trauma-informed system that highlights strategies related to organizational collaboration, framework implementation, and staff self-care.

This recorded webinar explains how trauma-informed care can be implemented across large healthcare systems to effectively address patient needs, support improved health outcomes, and avoid retraumatization. Experts from the healthcare field contribute to this resource to share their experiences with trauma-informed systems and implementation processes that influence both the healthcare system and organizational culture.

This webinar from the Center for Health Care Strategies explores the benefits of trauma-informed treatment and services for individuals with substance use disorder and previous or current traumatic experience. Healthcare professionals share their experiences with patients and staff in trauma-informed healthcare professional organizations, highlighting key practices that influence better outcomes for patients and staff alike.

This archived webinar highlights resources for responders in supporting disaster-affected communities. Resources include the SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center, the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program, the SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline, and Psychological First Aid (PFA). The webinar offers an overview of PFA, including its background, foundational principles, and core actions.

An essential element to supporting individuals experiencing homelessness during disasters is to establish communication and provide successful outreach. This recorded presentation provides guidelines for reaching people experiencing homelessness effectively through case illustrations and the application of five clinical principles of care.

This recorded webinar explores the role emergency shelters must fill during a housing crisis and encourages providers to assess their response plans and practices. It includes data and research related to length of stay, reasons individuals may avoid shelters, and shelter outcomes. The page also links to self-assessments shelter providers can use to determine opportunities for improvement in their crisis response plan.

The second webinar in a series focused on individuals experiencing homelessness and winter crises, this recording focuses on challenges posed for vulnerable populations when natural disasters occur during colder seasons. Presented by professionals from homeless service provider organizations and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the webinar highlights strategies for overcoming barriers.

In this archived hour-long webinar, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Partners Information Connection provides an overview of crisis communication planning. Based on CDC's Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) program, the webinar presents CERC, explains the importance of planning for effective crisis communication, and highlights key considerations in developing and implementing a crisis communication plan.

This archived hour-long webinar covers emergency preparedness for people with hearing loss. Presenters also share advances in technology developed to better prepare and aid individuals with hearing loss experiencing an emergency.

This 1.5-hour webinar covers how to treat children who are deaf or hard of hearing, or hearing children of parents who are deaf, who have experienced trauma, including trauma linked to disaster. While the webinar is available free of charge, users need to create an account with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Learning Center and log in to access the webinar.

This recorded webinar hosted as part of the National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC) provides information on climate change and related hazards and features discussion of climate preparedness that addresses community risks and evolving climate crises. Participants are provided guidance for developing an adaptation plan that promotes community resilience and assessment of population vulnerabilities and risks.

This recorded webinar hosted by the National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC) highlights the importance of resilience in disaster and climate adaptation planning and offers suggestions for ensuring efficient disaster response and recovery. It encourages participants to view climate hazards as an opportunity for expanding services and promoting community sustainability and growth.