For First Responders

First responders (police, firefighters, EMTs, bystanders) are often the first on scene. These resources are for this population.

A Guide to Managing Stress in Crisis Response Professions

Alcohol and Your Health

Bioterrorism and Public Health

Bioterrorism: Psychological and Public Health Interventions

Code Yellow, Code Orange: How Will We Respond?

Dealing with the Effects of Trauma: A Self-Help Guide.

Disaster Related Death: Managing Concerns about the Dead or Missing

Disaster Related Deaths and Infection: Truth, Myth or In-Between

Disasters and Poverty

Haiti: Facts Important to Response and Recovery

Health Care Providers: Sustaining Psychological Well-Being

Hurricane Katrina: Sustaining Effectiveness in First Responders

Information for Relief Workers on Emotional Reactions to Human Bodies in Mass Death (Chinese)

Managing a Workplace or an Organization After a Disaster

Mental Health Response to Mass Violence and Terrorism: A Field Guide

NIEHS: Earthquake Response Training Tool (Creole)

NIEHS: Earthquake Response Training Tool (English)

Oil Spill Workers and Traumatic Incident Stress (NIOSH

Psychological First Aid: How You Can Support Well-Being in Disaster Victims

Psychological First Aid: How You Can Support Well-Being in Disaster Victims (Chinese)

Risk Communication: Guidelines for Public Officials

Seriously Mentally Ill: Addressing Needs in a Disaster

Terrorism and Disaster: Individual and Community Mental Health Interventions

Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry