DTAC Bulletin: New from SAMHSA on Disaster

DTAC Bulletin

DTAC Bulletin: New from SAMHSA on Disaster

The SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center (DTAC) has an assortment of products available for disaster behavioral health planners, disaster responders, and disaster survivors. Products include web portals, newsletters, and short trainings for busy professionals. See the December DTAC Bulletin for more information.

New From SAMHSA DTAC

The SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center (DTAC) has released new products for disaster behavioral health planners, disaster responders, and disaster survivors. Products include web portals, newsletters, and short trainings for busy professionals.

Resource Portals for Disaster Planners, Responders, and Survivors The SAMHSA DTAC website now features portals for disaster behavioral health planners, responders, and disaster survivors. Each portal provides information and links to resources for its audience. For example, the First Responders and Disaster Responders Resource Portal identifies stressors for first responders; offers stress management tips; and provides descriptions and links to SAMHSA DTAC’s online courses for first responders, among other products.

Newsletters on Children in Disasters, Technology and Disasters, and Research SAMHSA DTAC has released two new issues of The Dialogue, the center’s flagship newsletter for the field. One issue focuses on how disaster behavioral health programs have found innovative ways to serve children. The other examines technologies in disaster. Recent issues of the Supplemental Research Bulletin, SAMHSA DTAC’s research newsletter, have focused on the effects of disasters on individuals with serious mental illness and how children react to human-caused disasters such as oil spills, nuclear accidents, mass violence, and terrorist attacks.