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Presented by the President of National Emergency Management and Response, this webinar for state emergency managers covers best practices in case management strategies to support survivors of disasters. Key topics addressed in the webinar include evaluating resource coordination, assessing effectiveness of communication, and monitoring development and enhancement of community resilience.
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This web page contains comprehensive resources for institutions of higher education related to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from acts of cyberwarfare, cyberterrorism, and cybercrime. Information and resources are grouped into areas including data breaches, failures of physical infrastructure, and all cyber incidents.
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This website from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security provides information, guidance, and resources for individuals and communities preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disaster and emergency events. It includes resources for various age groups and provides tips for creating an effective individual and family disaster plan.
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This literature review discusses Long COVID and its behavioral health implications. It describes the behavioral health issues and conditions associated with Long COVID, neuropsychiatric causes of these issues and conditions, and future research needs.
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This web page explores community violence data, including data surrounding youth and vulnerable populations, to highlight the important preventive strategies communities can pursue. It provides community members with resources, including databases and technical guides, to encourage the continued collection of data and strategies for building community resilience.
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This article reports on a scoping review of research on the impacts of multiple disasters. Among findings of the review is that experiencing multiple disasters can have impacts on mental health and well-being, as well as overall health. The authors note that more research is needed to fully understand the impacts of exposure to multiple disasters over short and longer terms.
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This brief article describes a study that found that people who had experienced 2 or more disasters in the last 5 years had lower mental health scores. The author notes that the article and its findings highlight the need for public health interventions for people who have experienced more than one disaster within a short period of time.
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This guide offers information and suggestions to help emergency managers, planners, and responders include individuals with disabilities in disaster planning and preparedness, response, and recovery. It identifies the effects of human-caused disasters, such as terrorist events, on the disability community to encourage effective and inclusive disaster planning.
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This resource is developed for children with parents or guardians who only speak Spanish to provide them with steps to help their parents during emergencies and cope with stress. It provides guidance for alerting parents and guardians of an emergency, how to be a helper, and how to ask for help if they are feeling anxious or scared.
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This tip sheet provides guidance to help leaders understand their role in individual and community recovery following a tragedy such as a natural or human-caused disaster. This resource offers leaders communication strategies for the immediate aftermath of a tragedy as well as throughout the recovery process. The list of common symptoms of grief can also help leaders provide support and plan recovery activities.
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This article discusses the challenges emergency response professionals may face responding to disasters during the ongoing opioid crisis. Topics include maintaining access to key pharmaceuticals, staffing disaster medical teams, coordinating with local service providers, and providing legal and ethical guidance to first responders.
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This booklet was developed to help pet owners avoid having to leave their animals stranded in the event of a disaster or an evacuation. It includes detailed information on assembling emergency kits and plans addressing the needs of a wide variety of animals including livestock.
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This booklet was developed to help pet owners avoid having to leave their animals stranded in the event of a disaster or an evacuation. It includes detailed information on assembling emergency kits and plans addressing the needs of a wide variety of animals including livestock.
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This guide provides law enforcement agencies with the steps to follow to ensure good health for their workforce. The authors offer an overview of occupational health and safety for law enforcement, review occupational health and safety programs, discuss assessing current efforts, and identify common challenges and provide recommendations for overcoming them.
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The purpose of this report is to provide a step-by-step planning process guide to ensure the continuation of police work during an influenza pandemic. The resource includes information on identifying a department planning team, gathering information and resources, communicating internally and externally before and during pandemic influenza, and exercising and updating the plan.
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This report reviews what law enforcement executives should address in their public health communications plans for both internal communications (those that remain within the law enforcement agency) and external communications (those that go to other agencies or the public).
The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement at Children's Hospital Los Angeles is dedicated to helping schools support their students through crisis and loss. They offer confidential technical assistance and consultation for K–12 school leadership and school professionals, free educational resources and crisis management tools, and school staff training and professional development for a range of professional audiences.
This tip sheet defines climate change and explains how it may affect people who take medications to manage health conditions, including mental health issues and conditions. It lists signs of heat-related distress and illness and identifies steps individuals and communities can take to become more resilient.
This 56-page guide offers information and tools to help states, territories, tribes, and local jurisdictions plan and prepare for disaster behavioral health response to all types of hazards. The guide explains the reasons for planning and offers an overview of disaster behavioral health; identifies key steps in developing, testing, activating, and deactivating plans; and explores core elements of successful plans.
This web page discusses how multiple disasters may affect communities. It highlights signs of the need to seek help for someone struggling to cope with reactions, offers tips for supporting people affected by multiple disasters, and provides links to related resources.
This part of the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project (LACCDR) website features items that communities across the United States may find useful for enhancing resilience. These items include a toolkit for building community resilience; a community resilience work plan; and trainings, projects, and other resources from sources other than LACCDR.
This web page highlights resources to prepare for and respond to active shooter attacks. It explores available threat assessment and management services, training and documentary videos, and the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in responding to and preventing active shooter attacks.
This assessment allows houses of worship to evaluate their security and identify strategies for improving their safety and preparedness. Users are encouraged to fill out the assessment questions regarding access and entry control, perimeter security, and barriers to evaluate their community's security. Users can also submit questions and requests.