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This tip sheet highlights actionable principles that child-serving service provider organizations and systems are advised to implement to provide anti-racist and trauma-informed services. It includes strategies for implementing these principles wholistically, from provision of services to staff support and leadership development.
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This fact sheet highlights the prevalence of suicide among Black and African American communities. It includes information regarding the impact of historical trauma and COVID-19 on mental health, the role of stigma in African American communities, and lack of access to mental health services. Resources to promote mental well-being are also provided.
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This tip sheet provides guidance on communicating with the media for responders serving communities affected by disasters that involved the death of many people. The tip sheet emphasizes the importance of preparation and of identifying a set number of people who will provide information to the media. It also offers tips specifically for media interviews.
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This fact sheet offers advice to leaders on crafting effective messages about high-stress topics, such as public health emergencies. It echoes other risk and crisis communication resources in highlighting the importance of developing messages in advance of a crisis.
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This fact sheet provides tips for team leaders on how to monitor and minimize their stress when managing teams during traumatic events.
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This online fact sheet provides information about five key elements of cultural competence related to disaster preparedness, as well as examples of each element. This information can help increase cultural awareness and knowledge for disaster responders that they can use to adapt to, and serve effectively in, different cultural contexts. Links to resources for additional information are also provided.
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These fact sheets from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network discuss challenging financial circumstances and economic hardships that can negatively affect youth, families, and communities. The series offers practical ways to address the challenges during economic hardships by improving a sense of safety, calming, self- and community efficacy, connectedness, and hope.
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Developed for organizations implementing a trauma-informed care approach, this fact sheet provides detailed guidance for engaging patients, staff, and community members with a new framework. The resource considers challenges organizations may encounter and provides tips for encouraging community involvement in trauma-informed care, including strategies such as soliciting feedback through various outlets, practicing transparency, and providing appropriate compensation.
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Created for individuals interested in implementing a trauma-informed approach in their organization, this tool highlights key takeaways about trauma-informed care than can be shared with organizational leadership to make the case for framework implementation. It includes six considerations for discussing the framework with leadership that help clarify information about individual and community needs, short-term benefits, next steps, and positive long-term outcomes.
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In this fact sheet, the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress offers guidance on pandemic influenza preparedness and response. The authors list steps that officials can take to support communities in preparedness, response, and recovery, and to plan for mental health interventions such as effective risk and safety communication and Psychological First Aid.
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Developed by the SAMHSA Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center, this fact sheet gives individuals and programs who may work with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities a better understanding of mental health in these communities. It discusses the history of trauma in tribal communities, as well as perceptions of mental health and illness among AI/AN communities that differ in some ways from European American perceptions.
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This website provides links to fact sheets about bioterrorism agents, such as anthrax, botulism, brucellosis, plague, smallpox, tularemia, and viral hemorrhagic fevers.
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This 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.
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This fact sheet from the Center for Health Care Strategies describes key organizational and clinical practices necessary for ensuring trauma-informed care and services. It explores the effect of trauma on health and identifies key principles at work in different organizations in the field, explaining how they address trauma-informed needs through their efforts.
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In this fact sheet for school psychologists and other school personnel, the National Association of School Psychologists defines social media and describes its use, identifies risks and potential benefits of social media, and notes the need for schools and school districts to develop or understand social media policies and build capacity to work with social media. Links to related resources are provided.
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This fact sheet presents five key recommendations for health departments in planning to provide aid and assistance to people with disabilities in disasters or other emergencies. Recommendations include analyzing the population of people with disabilities in their jurisdiction, including people with disabilities in all emergency planning efforts, and ensuring accessibility for all people with disabilities during a disaster or other emergency.
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This fact sheet discusses general principles for disaster mental health response, including the importance of identifying survivors with psychiatric disorders and providing them treatment. It also introduces frameworks for disaster mental health response, and case identification for posttraumatic stress disorder, the most common psychiatric disorder after disasters.
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Developed for clinicians and other healthcare professionals, this tip sheet explores the importance of trauma assessment when working with families who have experienced a traumatic event to identify and address their specific needs. It includes tips for encouraging families to engage in the trauma assessment, provides best practices for conducting a family assessment, and promotes the assessment process as a necessary step to provide trauma-informed care.
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This 11-page fact sheet has information on the diversity of the community of people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as suggestions for clinicians on ways to modify treatments to fit the needs of this population. Tips are included on preparing for therapy with a client who is deaf or hard of hearing, learning how to work effectively with an interpreter, and adapting individual sessions.
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People with developmental disabilities are more likely to be exposed to certain types of traumatic experiences, and certain types of trauma make developmental delays more likely. This guide shares statistics related to individuals with disabilities in the United States and incidence of trauma among children and adults with developmental disabilities.
This fact sheet explores the impacts of climate change on individuals’ mental health and wellness through background information about mental health and a description of immediate, gradual, and indirect impacts. It includes a case study and research supporting emergency preparedness recommendations to build resilience and cope with possible effects.
This fact sheet highlights the importance of community planning to promote resilience when facing risks for severe weather and natural disasters caused by climate change. Along with strategies for climate resilience and links to tools for disaster planning, the resource includes case studies from across the nation to help guide decision makers.
This resource summarizes the challenges faced by people who use drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides a roadmap for organizations on how to provide harm reduction services in future times of crisis. Links to related resources are also provided.
This webpage contains five fact sheets about Ebola preparedness. One fact sheet focuses on steps members of the general public can take to protect their health. Another is for health care providers and gives tips on how to recognize Ebola, and also how to talk to patients who are worried about the outbreak. There is also a fact sheet for community leaders that describes effective communication tactics in high-stress situations.
This fact sheet explores the challenges facing healthcare workers during infectious disease outbreaks and provide strategies for ensuring self-care and well-being. It includes a list of stress management tips, such as taking breaks from work and communicating with colleagues, to avoid burnout and build resilience while providing services.
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