Managing Stress in Later life
Stress and Stress Management
Tips for Survivors of a Traumatic Event: Managing your Stress
Tips in a Time of Economic Crisis: Managing your Stress
Survivors of a Traumatic Event: What to Expect in Your Personal, Family, Work and Financial Life
6 Ways to Take a Mental Vacation

Managing Stress in Later life
A Healthy State of Mind: Older Adults
Special Concerns of Older Adults in Disasters
Coping with Disaster: Tips for Older Adults
Aftermath of a Disaster, Older Adults: Stronger than Sorrow

Infant Nutrition During a Disaster
Helping Children and Adolescents Deal with Grief
Understanding Child Traumatic Stress

PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS
This Web site teaches children how to create an emergency kit, make an emergency plan and learn about emergency preparedness through interactive games. It also includes a section for parents and teachers.
http://www.ready.gov/kids/home.html

Sesame Workshop, along with its project partners has created Let's Get Ready! Planning Together for Emergencies with tips, activities, and other easy tools to help the whole family prepare for emergencies together.
http://www.sesamestreet.org/ready

Psychological First Aid for Parents and Teachers
Storm/Flood Activity Book with Parent Guide
Tips for Talking to Children after a Disaster, A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Tips in a Time of Economic Crisis, "Talking Dollars and Sense with Your Children"
Talk to Children about Crisis Events: What to do Before, During or After a Crisis

Military OneSource supplements existing installation services and provides free help and information, by phone with a professionally trained consultant or online, on a wide range of issues that affect military personnel and their families -- from budgeting and investing to relationships and deployment. Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
http://www.militaryonesource.com

The Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has founded a national suicide prevention hotline to ensure veterans in emotional crisis have free, 24/7 access to trained counselors.
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/Veterans/Default.aspx

The Impact of Invisible Injuries: Helping Your Family and Children

Aftermath of a Disaster: What You Can Do for Yourself and Others
Taking Care of Your Emotional Health after a Disaster
Tips for Survivors of a Traumatic Event: Managing your Stress
Survivors of a Traumatic Event: What to Expect in Your Personal, Family, Work and Financial Life
After the Disaster
Coping with the Aftermath of a Disaster
Key Facts About Hurricane and Flood Recovery
Taking Care of Your Emotional Health after a Disaster
Aftermath of a Disaster, Older Adults: Stronger than Sorrow

2-1-1 is the easiest way to get information when you need it, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. One call provides you access to resources across your community, whether you need to get help for you, a family member or a friend.
http://www.211ri.org/

If you or someone you know is feeling overwhelmed, anxious or depressed by the impact of a disaster, please use this link to find the Community Mental Health Center in your area.
Community Mental Health Center/

There is a state-wide network of Community Action Programs (CAP agencies) committed to empowering individuals and families to help themselves. Use this link to find an agency near you.
Community Action Programs

This link will take you to the Rhode Island Health Center directory. These centers have 27 primary care offices throughout the State.
Rhode Island Health Center directory

This link brings you to the Hardest Hit Fund of Rhode Island (HHFRI), a federal fund established to help Rhode Island homeowners who are unable to make their mortgage payments due to a hardship such as job loss or underemployment.
http://www.hhfri.org/

Resilience

This link will bring you to information about preparing and developing a plan in the event of a disaster.
http://www.ready.gov/

Use this link to access "Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness", FEMA’s most comprehensive source on individual, family, and community preparedness. It provides a step-by-step approach to disaster preparedness by walking the reader through how to get informed about local emergency plans, how to identify hazards that affect their local area, and how to develop and maintain an emergency communications plan and disaster supplies kit.
Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness

Use this tool to stay informed about any emergency in your area. If there is an emergency, the news feed will have up-to-the-minute facts about the situation or weather-related event. Information will also be available through a Twitter feed. In addition, videos accessed through the link provide advice to help you better prepare for natural, man-made or medical disasters.


Personal Emergency Preparedness Guide
Key Facts about Hurricane Readiness

This link brings you to the Hardest Hit Fund of Rhode Island (HHFRI), a federal fund established to help Rhode Island homeowners who are unable to make their mortgage payments due to a hardship such as job loss or underemployment.
http://www.hhfri.org/

Tips in a Time of Economic Crisis: Managing your Stress

2-1-1 is the easiest way to get information when you need it, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. One call provides you access to resources across your community, whether you need to get help for you, a family member or a friend.
http://www.211ri.org/

This link will bring you to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) substance abuse treatment facility locator. Using this tool, you can find facilities in Rhode Island that treat alcohol and substance abuse problems.
drug and alcohol treatment programs


The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a 24-hour, toll-free, confidential suicide prevention hotline available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/Default.aspx

This link will take you to the Rhode Island Health Center directory. These centers have 27 primary care offices throughout the State.
Rhode Island Health Center directory

There is a state-wide network of Community Action Programs (CAP agencies) committed to empowering individuals and families to help themselves. Use this link to find an agency near you.
Community Action Programs

If you or someone you know is feeling overwhelmed, anxious or depressed by the impact of a disaster, please use this link to find the Community Mental Health Center in your area.
Community Mental Health Center/
Grief and Loss
Pandemic Flu Planning, Checklist for Individuals and Families