Search Results for "disaster"
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Fact sheet
Traumatic events: Anniversaries and other triggers
Emerging MindsThis resource will provide some information on how to support and manage planned events that may cause distress, such as anniversaries, as well as situations that are less predictable. -
Fact sheet
Helping students recover after trauma: Classroom activities
Emerging MindsThere are specific things that you can do in the classroom to help children who have been directly or indirectly impacted by traumatic events. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: July 2018
Prepared by AIFSThis July research summary provides a selection of recently released systematic reviews and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health and relevant to the work of the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health. Abstracts and links to full-text articles, where available, are provided. -
Framework
Child safe organisations WA – Guidelines
Commissioner for Children and Young People (WA)This guide is intended to assist a broad range of organisations in their efforts to become more child safe. It provides general information only and each organisation will need to consider the information and develop strategies and practices suited to its own specific needs, consistent with its duty of care. -
Framework
National Mental Health Recovery Framework – Guide for Practitioners and Providers
COAG Health CouncilThis document is a guide for mental health practitioners and services to Australia’s national framework for recovery-oriented mental health services. -
Guide
From isolation to connection: a guide to understanding and working with traumatised children and young people
Child Safety Commissioner, Melbourne VictoriaThis guide is for people working with, caring for, or in contact with children and young people whose lives have been hurt by abuse, neglect or other trauma. -
Website
Supportive relationships and active skill-building strengthen the foundations of resilience
Harvard UniversityThis working paper explains how protective factors in the social environment and responsive biological systems interact to produce resilience, and discusses strategies that promote healthy development in face of significant adversity. -
Guide
Trauma and loss – MHFA Guidelines for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Beyond BlueResource that is most useful for professionals and community leaders. It includes recommendations on how to help an Aboriginal person who has experienced trauma or loss. -
Research paper
Living on the Edge: Social and emotional wellbeing and risk and protective factors for serious psychological distress among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal HealthThis discussion paper has been prepared to generate discussion around the determinants of Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing and to provide a range of recommendations for addressing the current gap in social and emotional wellbeing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The report identifies a number of strengths and protective factors. Includes a discussion of the trauma and grief issues that Indigenous people are experiencing. -
Toolkit
Community Trauma Toolkit
Health and social service practitionersFirst respondersCommunity leadersEducatorsGeneral practitionersParents and caregivers -
Fact sheet
Listen, Protect, Connect – Model & Teach Psychological First Aid
Department of Homeland SecurityAs a teacher, you are in an excellent position to help your students after a disaster, school crisis, or emergency. Just as you help connect students with appropriate academic and counselling services under normal circumstances, you are in an excellent position to help your students return to school, stay in school, continue to learn, and return to their usual school-based activities after such an event. This factsheet helps teachers introduce the steps of psychological first aid for students after a disaster, school crisis or emergency. -
Report
Australian journal of emergency management – children youth education special edition
Australian GovernmentThis issue of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management is devoted to children and youth in emergencies and disasters.