Communities

The Disaster and Community Crisis Center provides resources and interventions to help communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters or other crises.

DCC Resources

  • Picturing Resilience Intervention (PRI)
  • The Picturing Resilience Intervention (PRI) is a group intervention designed to promote resilience and coping skills among youth following a disaster, community crisis, or other challenges resulting from the usual stresses of daily life.

    Click HERE for more information.

  • Domestic Disaster Displacement (3D)
  • 3D is an intervention that is designed to help providers and volunteers assist families cope with disaster evacuation, displacement, and resettlement.

    Click HERE for more information.

  • Using Data and Services to Meet the Disaster Mental Health Needs of Youth and Families: A Planning and Resource Guide
  • This guide helps disaster planners (those working or volunteering with the government or any organization active in disaster response) address youth and family disaster mental health issues in disaster planning and response.

    Click HERE to download the planning and resource guide.

Other Resources

  • Citizen Corps
  • The mission of Citizen Corps is to harness the power of every individual through education, training, and volunteer service to make communities safer, stronger, and better prepared to respond to the threats of terrorism, crime, public health issues, and disasters of all kinds.

    http://www.ready.gov/citizen-corps

  • Save the Children
  • Save the Children provides materials for communities and schools to hold Disaster Prep Rallies, which helps children and families get prepared for emergencies.

    http://www.SaveTheChildren.org/GetReady