Creating Effective Child- and Family-Focused Disaster Behavioral Health Messages on Social Media | NLM

Disaster Information Management Research Center | NLM

Creating Effective Child- and Family-Focused Disaster Behavioral Health Messages on Social Media

12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Published: 12/2019. This 38-page toolkit offers guidance to child-serving behavioral health organizations and professionals who serve communities affected by disaster and terrorism events. It shares lessons learned from previous incidents, and how to get started using social media, including guidance on developing a social media policy and plan, constructing messages for various disasters and audiences, and managing social media accounts. It also includes sample messages to better fit specific disasters and terrorism events. (PDF)