Public Safety Workers Resource Collection

This installment of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Disaster Behavioral Health Information Series focuses on the behavioral health effects of responding to a disaster. It is a resource collection that contains a variety of disaster behavioral health materials designed to directly benefit public safety workers and the people who provide them with behavioral health assistance. View the collection's annotated bibliography, which contains links to each resource; and helpful links, which provide links to organizations, agencies, and other resources.

It is organized into the following four categories:

• Materials for Self-Care and Stress Management—Resources for public safety workers to use in monitoring and protecting their own mental health and emotional well-being while responding to an emergency or disaster
• Materials for Providers and Behavioral Health Professionals—Information for behavioral health professionals and providers to use when treating public safety workers who have responded to a disaster
• Materials for Public Safety Workers To Use in Disaster Response—Resources consisting of tip sheets and guides that contain early behavioral health interventions and practical suggestions for public safety workers to utilize when assisting people who have just experienced a traumatic event
• Materials Created by Public Safety Worker Grantees—Materials created by recipients of the SAMHSA Public Safety Worker Grant to address the mental health needs of public safety workers who responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001