Ulifeline™ is an anonymous, Internet-based resource that provides students with a non-threatening and supportive link to their college mental health or counseling center. It was created to give students more knowledge about mental health and the signs and symptoms of emotional problems.

This website enables students to address such issues as depression, stress, and the pressures of college life. The site includes a library of mental health information and an interactive screening tool to help students uncover whether they or a friend are at risk. Importantly, the site was created by students for students and is maintained by the highly supervised involvement of supervised by the most respected professionals in the mental health field.

National Association of School Psychologists

School Safety and Crisis Resources includes:

• School Safety/Violence Prevention 
• Suicide Prevention/Intervention 
• Crisis Response Resources
• Media and Crisis
• Trauma
• Natural Disasters
• War/Terrorism Materials
• Crisis Resources in Spanish and Other Languages
• PREPaRE School Crisis Prevention and Response Training Curriculum
• National Emergency Assistance Team

Crisis Resources in Spanish and Other Languages

Spanish language resources

Fairfax County, Virginia, Public Schools have also generously provided translations of two handouts in several languages. They are available in PDF format below:

• Coping in Unsettling Times - Tips for Students
• Arabic
• Chinese
• Farsi
• Korean
• Spanish
• Urdu
• Vietnamese
• Coping in Unsettling Times - Tips for Parents
• Arabic
• Chinese
• Farsi
• Korean
• Spanish
• Urdu
• Vietnamese

The Psychological First Aid Manual
Work on this project was initially sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health and has been produced by the Veterans Administration.
www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/ncdocs/manuals/nc_manual_psyfirstaid.html

June Isaacson Kailes
A nationally known advocate in the independent living movement who has spearheaded efforts to improve disaster response with respect to persons with disabilities.  http://www.jik.com/disaster.html

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Resources
http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/post.htm
http://www.ptsdinfo.org

Depression and Other Psychiatric Impairments Resources
http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/psyc.htm

The National Council on Disability
“Needs of People with Psychiatric Disabilities During and After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Position Paper and Recommendations”

Centers for Disease Control, Trauma and Disaster Mental Health Resources
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/

Health and Human Services Publications on Mental Health & Disaster Issues

There is an extensive collection of information here:

For Responders

• A Guide to Managing Stress in Crisis Response Professions
  This guide provides a framework for stress management strategies for crisis response workers and managers.
• Communicating in a Crisis: Risk Communications Guidelines for Public Officials
  This brief primer provides skills and techniques for clear, effective crisis communications and information dissemination to the public and media in emergency situations.
• Developing Cultural Competence in Disaster Mental Health Programs
  This guide helps disaster mental health providers and workers meet the unique cultural needs of individuals and communities affected by a disaster.
• Disaster Counseling
  This resource is filled with nuts-and-bolts suggestions for disaster workers who are assisting disaster survivors.
• Disaster Mental Health: Crisis Counseling Programs for the Rural Community
  This guide is a resource for those who play a role in providing crisis counseling services after a disaster in a rural area.
• Field Manual for Mental Health and Human Service Workers in Major Disasters
  This pocket reference guide provides specific and practical suggestions for mental health workers and other human service providers who assist survivors following a disaster.
• Managing Stress: Tips for Emergency and Disaster Response Workers
  This brochure provides an overview of the signs of stress and strategies for managing and alleviating stress.
• Mental Health All-Hazards Disaster Planning Guidance
  This guide helps identify disease outbreaks, integrate physical and mental health responses, and conduct epidemiological surveillance.
• Psychological First Aid for First Responders
  This brochure provides information on promoting a safe and calm environment for people during and after a disaster.
• Psychosocial Issues for Children and Families in Disasters: A Guide for the Primary Care Physician
  This manual assists primary health care providers to better prepare, assess, and treat children and their families in the event of a disaster.
• Tips for Emergency and Disaster Response Workers: Managing and Preventing Stress [HTML | PDF]
  This fact sheet provides a framework for workers and organizations to anticipate stressors and shape responses.
• Tips for First Responders: Possible Alcohol and Substance Abuse Indicators
  This fact sheet provides warning signs associated with alcohol and drug addiction and other physical and mental disorders.

• After a Disaster: Self-Care Tips for Dealing with Stress
  This fact sheet helps those affected by disasters understand what has happened, recognize signs of a need for stress management assistance, and learn ways to ease stress.
• After a Disaster: What Teens Can Do
  This fact sheet helps teens understand their reactions to a disaster and find ways to ease the unfamiliar feelings that arise as a result of the event.
• Anxiety Disorders: How to Deal with Grief
  This fact sheet provides information on grief and how to deal with it.
• Recovering Your Mental Health: Dealing with the Effects of Trauma: A Self Help Guide
  This guide describes simple and safe steps individuals can take to begin healing from the effects of trauma.
• SAMHSA Web Resources At-a-Glance
  This brochure provides information about SAMHSA mental health and substance abuse information clearinghouses, treatment facilities locators, and hotlines.
• Tips for Survivors of a Traumatic Event: What to Expect in Your Personal, Family, Work, and Financial Life
  This fact sheet provides information on the signs of stress and strategies for relief.

• Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
  This fact sheet defines anxiety disorders, identifies warning signs, discusses risk factors, describes the types of help available, and provides suggestions on what parents and other caregivers can do.
• Helping Children Cope with Fear and Anxiety
  This resource suggests ways parents can help their children cope with fear and anxiety after a tragic event.
• Major Depression in Children and Adolescents
  This fact sheet describes depression and its signs, identifies the types of help available, and provides suggestions on what parents and other caregivers can do.
• Reaction of Children to a Disaster
  This fact sheet explains how children of various age groups typically react to a disaster.
• Tips for Talking to Children in Trauma: Interventions at Home for Preschoolers to Adolescents [HTML | PDF]
  This fact sheet suggests activities arranged by age group to help children share recovery feelings and experiences at home.
• Suicide Warning Signs [HTML | PDF]
• Señales de Suicidio [HTML | PDF]
• Quick Guide to SAMHSA Resources
  This booklet provides detailed information about services and resources available through SAMHSA.

For Older Adults:

• Older Adults
  This resource provides assistance for older adults who are attempting to understand a disaster.
• Psychosocial Issues for Older Adults in Disasters
  This guide helps disaster mental health and human service workers, service providers, program planners, administrators, and caregivers respond appropriately to the needs of older adults in times of disaster.

For Schools:

• Tips for Talking to Children After a Disaster: A Guide for Parents and Teachers [HTML | PDF]
  This fact sheet explains how preschool-aged, adolescent, and young children may respond to a disaster and provides tips to help parents talk with their children after a disaster.

• Understanding Mental Illness - After the Virginia Tech Tragedy
• Violence and Mental Illness: The Facts - A comprehensive gateway to mental health information from the US Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Excellent information regarding myths and facts about mental illness, reducing stigma and campus and public policy, with links to NAMI, APA and other organizations.
• Before You Label People, Look at Their Contents
• Press Release from the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI)