Supplemental Research Bulletin:

Stronger Together—Selected Community-Level Approaches to Disaster Behavioral Health

Being part of a community is key to recovery and wellness. Building strong, inclusive communities may enhance the resilience of individual residents, and community-level approaches may help disaster survivors cope with stress and return to usual levels of functioning after a disaster.

This issue of the Supplemental Research Bulletin travels across the United States and through all stages of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery in examining community-level approaches to disaster behavioral health. While not meant to be comprehensive, the issue zeroes in on approaches that exemplify the benefits of a community-level approach, looking at research on how they are structured and how effective they are. It covers the following:

A project in Los Angeles to develop and enhance resilience
The Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program, through which the federal government supports states, territories, and tribes in providing behavioral health services in disaster-affected communities
PsySTART, an approach to identifying levels of need in different communities after disasters to help programs allocate resources

Download Stronger Together—Selected Community-Level Approaches to Disaster Behavioral Health [PDF – 393KB].

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