This toolkit helps service providers for the aging learn more about mental illness and substance use disorders in older adults, including focus on alcohol and medication use. It provides tools such as a program coordinator’s guide, suggested curricula, and handouts.

This tip sheet for parents and other caregivers and teachers explains how to help children cope with the emotional aftermath of a disaster and includes information on common reactions according to developmental stage.

Part of SAMHSA’s Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) series, this manual provides best-practice guidelines for practitioners offering mental health and substance use disorder treatment services to individuals experiencing homelessness. It defines types of intervention and prevention, stages of recovery, and forms of treatment through discussion and vignettes, as well as a literature review.

The 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.

This guide is intended to serve as a general briefing to enhance cultural competence while providing services to American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

This 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.

Funded 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.

This tip sheet discusses the needs of individuals with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders after a disaster. It also covers key considerations for healthcare practitioners and others who provide services and formal and informal support after disasters for individuals with co-occurring disorders.

The 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.

The goal of this 50-minute podcast is to help parents, caregivers, teachers, and other school staff to identify common reactions of Children and Youth DBHIS to disaster and trauma. It can also help adults determine when a child or youth exposed to a disaster may need mental health services.

This issue of the SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center’s Supplemental Research Bulletin discusses reactions children and youth may have to a natural disaster. It also describes a variety of mental health issues and mental disorders that may occur, as well as substance use and misuse issues among adolescents, and risk and protective factors.

This web page provides definitions of serious mental illness (SMI) and serious emotional disturbance (SED) and statistics on prevalence of these conditions in the United States. It also features links to additional information and reports that further describe the disorders considered SMIs or SED.

Provided by the SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline, this web page offers information on the warning signs of emotional distress after an individual has experienced a natural or human-caused disaster. Warning signs are broken down by age category for children, teens, and adults. Also identified are risk factors, including chronic psychological disorders, some of which are serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance.

This tip sheet describes common reactions to sheltering in place and offers suggestions for self-care and supporting your family in coping.

This 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.

This webpage discusses the risk factors for distress after a mass violence event. The page also discusses what to do in lock-down situations, signs of distress, how to get help when needed, and additional resources.

This manual provides guidance for prescribers, administrators, and program managers in pharmacological treatment of people with co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and opioid use disorder. The manual also provides links to information about psychosocial interventions.

This guide includes resources for people working with children after a disaster. It covers child development theories in relation to how youth respond emotionally to disasters. It also features suggestions, case studies, and a resource guide. [Author: Speier, A. H.]

This toolkit equips high schools and their districts with strategies to prevent Suicidal Thinking, Behavior, Attempts and support the mental health of their students. The toolkit covers helping students who are at risk, responding to a Suicidal Thinking, Behavior, Attempts in a school, training staff, and conducting outreach to parents.

Designed 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 Suicidal Thinking, Behavior, Attempts prevention. It includes a manager’s guide, fact sheets for residents, and hands-on training tools for professional staff and family members.

This pamphlet provides a brief explanation of Psychological First Aid for first responders and disaster responders. It highlights do’s and don’ts for working with disaster-affected individuals and communities and supporting survivors who are experiencing strong emotions.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and Android and BlackBerry devices, this app is designed to support responders in meeting the mental health and substance use-related (behavioral health) needs of disaster-affected communities. It can be used to access preparedness and response information and to find local behavioral health services for referrals.

The SAMHSA Store offers free publications and tip sheets, many of which can be downloaded, on topics such as substance misuse and disasters.

The Disaster Distress Helpline is the nation’s first hotline dedicated to providing disaster crisis counseling. The toll-free helpline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This free, confidential, and multilingual crisis support service is available via telephone or text message (1-800-985-5990) to U.S. residents who are experiencing psychological distress as a result of a natural or human-caused disaster.

This website provides information on SBIRT, 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."