The Dialogue: Children and Disasters

• 2019

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• Koral O’Brien; Chance Freeman; Veronica Martinez; Melissa Pattison; Charles Walton

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This 18-page issue of The Dialogue, a quarterly technical assistance journal on disaster behavioral health, highlights activities that Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (CCP) grants have undertaken to successfully reach children in disaster response and recovery. Articles discuss steps CCP team members have taken to support children affected by Hurricane Harvey and also showcase a program used in schools by a Colorado CCP grant.

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Focus Areas: Natural Disasters; Trauma

Audiences: Behavioral Health Professionals; Public Health Professionals; Schools & Childcare Providers

Emergency Management Stages: Response; Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Keywords: Psychology, Adolescent; Behavioral Symptoms; Psychology, Child; Child, Preschool; Community Mental Health Services; Crisis Intervention; Disasters; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Natural Disasters; Schools; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Resilience, Psychological; Wildfires

Institutions: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

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