Partner Resources

For Responders & Health Professionals

  1. Tips for Managing and Preventing Stress: A Guide for Emergency Response and Public Safety Workers (PDF)
  2. Mental Health Response to Mass Violence and Terrorism: Stress Prevention, Management, and Intervention (PDF)
  3. Tips for Emergency and Disaster Response Workers: Possible Alcohol and Substance Abuse Indicators (PDF)

The U.S. Health and Human Resources Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's series of Webcasts on disaster planning and response in six topic areas:

  1. Key Concepts in Disaster Mental Health
  2. Managing Your Stress in Crisis Response Work
  3. Psychological First Aid Approaches
  4. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Disasters
  5. Child Trauma and Schools: Disaster Response
  6. Substance Use Disorders, Trauma, and Post-Traumatic Stress

Find out more information by visiting the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's website.

For Adults

  1. Tips for Survivors of a Traumatic Event: Managing Your Stress (PDF)
  2. Tips for Survivors of a Traumatic Event: What to Expect in Your Personal, Family, Work, and Financial Life (PDF)
  3. How to Deal with Grief (PDF)

For Students

  1. In the Wake of Trauma: Tips for College Students (PDF)
  2. After Disaster: What Teens Can Do (PDF)

For Parents & Teachers

  1. Tips for Talking to Children After a Disaster: A Guide for Parents and Teachers (PDF)

For Parents

  1. Tips for Talking to Children in Trauma: Interventions at Home for Preschoolers to Adolescents (PDF)
  2. Tips for Talking to Children and Youth after Traumatic Events: A Guide for Parents and Educators (PDF)

General

  1. Acute Response to Emergencies: Findings and Observations of 20 Years of Experience (PDF)
  2. Human Response to Natural Disasters (PDF)
  3. Structural and Personal Social Processes in Disasters (PDF)
  4. Taking Care of the Caregivers Presentation (PDF)