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Created for behavioral health professionals, this SAMHSA Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) gathers experience and information from experts in behavioral health to highlight best practice guidelines for pursuing a trauma-informed approach and providing trauma-specific services. The resource provides a research-based explanation about trauma and its impacts on substance use and mental disorders to explore intervention and treatment principles.
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This manual provides guidance for prescribers, administrators, and program managers in pharmacological treatment of people with co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder and opioid use disorder. The manual also provides links to information about psychosocial interventions.
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This website provides information on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment, which it describes as "an approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment to people with substance use disorders and those at risk of developing these disorders."
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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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This publication includes sections to help substance use counselors work with clients with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. It also includes information for administrators to help them ensure that their substance use treatment programs include components to support clients with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The guide also features a literature review that has been updated since it was first developed.
View ResourceThe goal of this 60-minute podcast is to assist disaster behavioral health responders in providing culturally aware and appropriate disaster behavioral health services for children, youth, and families affected by natural and human-caused disasters.
View ResourceThis guide is intended to serve as a general briefing to enhance cultural competence while providing services to American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
View ResourceThis tip sheet describes the stress people may feel when they hear about an outbreak of an infectious disease, such as Ebola. It presents signs of stress and provides tips for lowering and managing stress.
View ResourceFunded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and administered by SAMHSA, the CCP is a supplemental grant program to help states, territories, and federally recognized tribes affected by major disasters to address the mental health and substance use-related needs of their residents. The CCP has several required trainings.
View ResourceThe MHBG provides funds to grantees states and U.S. territories to provide comprehensive, community-based mental health services to adults with serious mental illnesses and to children with Serious Emotional Disturbance and to monitor progress in implementing systems through which these services are provided.
View ResourceThis site provides information about what to expect in a hurricane and signs of emotional distress. It also explains how to reach the Disaster Distress Helpline (call or text 800-985-5990) for immediate crisis counseling.
View ResourceThis tip sheet describes grief and the grieving process, both of which are often associated with disasters. It suggests ways to support survivors, as well as highlighting signs of complicated or traumatic grief or other grief that may require professional mental health care.
View ResourceCompatible with iPhone, iPad, and Android devices, this app is designed to support responders in meeting the mental health and substance use-related needs of disaster-affected communities. It can be used to access preparedness and response resources and find local mental health and substance use disorder treatment services for referrals.
View ResourceThe SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline is a 24-hour helpline staffed by trained counselors. The helpline can be used by any person, including a first responder, who is experiencing emotional distress due to a disaster. Responders may also want to make disaster survivors aware of this resource.
View ResourceDesigned for a range of types of disaster responders, this pocket guide describes the cycle of stress in the body and highlights signs of stress. It also presents tips for managers to prevent and manage stress for themselves and their workers during disaster response, as well as offering simple, practical stress management techniques for responders.
View ResourceThis flyer lists principles of Psychological First Aid that responders and others can use when working with people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Information about related resources is also provided.
View ResourceThis flyer lists principles of Psychological First Aid that responders and others can use when working with people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Information about related resources is also provided.
View ResourceProvided 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.
View ResourceThis brief (7-minute) training video teaches crisis counselors skills such as active listening to utilize during encounters with survivors. It also includes role-play scenarios to demonstrate ways to work with angry survivors. Although the video was designed for Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program staff, it may be useful to anyone providing crisis counseling after a disaster.
View ResourceThis tip sheet lists common physical, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive responses that people may have to disasters and other traumatic events. It also offers tips for stress management, as well as signs of the need for professional behavioral health assistance.
View ResourceThis toolkit equips high schools and their districts with strategies to prevent suicide and support the mental health of their students. The toolkit covers helping students who are at risk, responding to a suicide in a school, training staff, and conducting outreach to parents.
View ResourceDesigned for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities, and continuing care retirement communities, this toolkit contains a suite of resources with information about mental health and suicide prevention. It includes a manager’s guide, fact sheets for residents, and hands-on training tools for professional staff and family members.
View ResourceProvided by the SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline, this web page gives an overview of the effects droughts may have. It lists the signs of emotional distress related to drought and who may be most at risk of experiencing them. Lastly, it provides resources and information on where to get help.
View ResourceThis guide discusses barriers and challenges to accessing substance use disorder and mental health treatment services in rural communities. It also gives information on implementing telehealth as a method to increase access to services and the benefits of telehealth.
View ResourceThis mobile application helps disaster behavioral health responders provide quality support to survivors. With the SAMHSA Disaster Response Mobile App, responders can prepare for deployment by preloading useful resources on their mobile devices (e.g., treatment locator information), and then they can share those resources with survivors in the field.
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