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EYE OF THE STORM, Inc. |
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Offering practical programs for workers in a chaotic world. |
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This is a list of links to related websites that you may want to visit. Clicking the link will transfer you to that location. Should you happen to discover a broken link, please contact us by clicking here: EOTS: You have a broken link |
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Links (M—Z and a few more) |
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This short list of links will be expanded from time to time but, for the best and most current information, I recommend the David Baldwin link (see Page 1 of 2). If you see others you feel I should mention, or if you have problems with any of these links, please drop me a note via the e-mail link at the top of the page. |
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http://www.eyefthestorminc.com |
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Offers articles/links on many mental health topics including DMH, child abuse, combat trauma, EMS, EMDR, false memory, grief & loss, workplace and school violence, and many others. |
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"Disaster Finder" indexes over 400 disaster information sites on the web. It also allows short previews of the information available via those sites. |
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This site offers information about NADA safety initiatives and links to related organizations, including the support groups formed following air disasters. Members are working to raise the standard of safety, security, and survivability for commercial aviation passengers and provide for support of victim's families. NADA is a non-profit organization. |
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The NASW website contains general information about the organization and its member services. The 1996 Delegate Assembly adopted a new policy statement and a new program priority "practice advancement" goal supporting social work involvement in disaster relief. NASW and ARC have recently revised their letter of agreement between the two organizations. |
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The National Center for PTSD is a program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and carries out a broad range of activities in research, training, and public information. Their PTSD Resource Center, located at the National Center's headquarters in White River Junction, Vermont, aspires to become the world's definitive collection of literature on PTSD and related disorders. It contains a copy of every publication indexed in the PILOTS database, as well as many historical publications and foreign-language papers not yet included in PILOTS. They produce and publish a wide variety of information resources, most of which are available on this site. Also see link below for their DMHS Guidebook. |
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Through the generous help of Colonel Virgil Patterson, DSW, Chief, Department of Social Work, Walter Reed Army Medical Center and webmaster Carl Boocks, the Department Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD's manual "Disaster Mental Health Services: A Guidebook for Clinicians and Administrators" is available on the web. See the Walter Reed site below for more information and another link to the book. |
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Treatment centers from all over the United States have come together to form a new coalition, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). The Network is being funded by the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services through a Congressional initiative, the Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative. This Congressional initiative recognizes the profound, destructive, and widespread impact of trauma on American children's lives. Its purpose is to improve the quality, effectiveness, provision, and availability of therapeutic services delivered to all children and adolescents experiencing traumatic events. The Network will develop and disseminate effective, evidence-based treatments; collect data for systematic study; and help to educate professionals and the public about the effects of trauma on children. |
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NIMH has excellent, free publications and videotapes covering a variety of DMH topics. There is also information about relief services, including grants for research and crisis counseling. |
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The National Climatic Data Center of NOAA presents this website entitled "Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters." Covering the period from 1980 to 1998, there is information on the very expensive weather-related disasters that have hit the United States over the past 19 years. As they note, 27 of these disasters occurred during the 1988 -1998 period with total damages/costs exceeding $150 billion. |
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NOD provides preparedness information including these offerings: Disaster Readiness Tips for Owners of Pets or Service Animals Disaster Readiness Tips for People with Developmental or Cognitive Disabilities Disaster Readiness Tips for People with Mobility Disabilities Disaster Readiness Tips for People with Sensory Disabilities |
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Founded in 1975, NOVA is a private, nonprofit organization that promotes rights and services for victims of crime and crisis. The site contains information about NOVA's community crisis teams and the related training programs that they offer. |
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The NTSB is an independent Federal agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil aviation accident in the United States and significant accidents in the other modes of transportation - railroad, highway, marine and pipeline - and issuing safety recommendations aimed at preventing future accidents. The NTSB maintains the government's database on civil aviation accidents and also conducts special studies of transportation safety issues of national significance. |
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The purpose of NVOAD is to bring together the various organizations that serve in disaster relief operations, in order to foster cooperation, coordination, communication, and collaboration. The site has links to member organizations and to state VOAD websites. There are also links to other disaster sites. |
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O'Dochartaigh Associates Disaster Mental Health References and Resources |
This site contains an extensive listing of DMH references and numerous links to other DMH sites. There are also several DMH articles available on line. Look to this site for information summarized from a major DMH conference held in Laramie, Wyoming (1999). |
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QUICK RESPONSE: A Step-By-Step Guide to Crisis Management for Principals, Counselors, and Teachers |
The folks at Educational Service District 105, Yakima, WA have published a detailed manual for those working in schools. Anyone who needs to develop (or refine) teams and plans for responding to typical school crises will find this helpful. I was one of the expert reviewers for this project and I'm very pleased with the final product. Their group also offers crisis response team training. For more information, please use this e-mail link to contact Randal Town, one of the developers. |
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The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses to them. Funded by a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and organized by the American Social History Project at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the Digital Archive will contribute to the on-going effort by historians and archivists to record and preserve the record of 9/11 by: collecting first-hand accounts of the 9/11 attacks and the aftermath (especially voices currently under-represented on the web), collecting and archiving emails and digital images growing out of these events, organizing and annotating the most important web-based resources on the subject, and developing materials to contextualize and teach about the events. The Digital Archive will also use these events as a way of assessing how history is being recorded and preserved in the twenty-first century and as an opportunity to develop free software tools to help historians to do a better job of collecting, preserving, and writing history in the new century. |
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"Healing through Art...Art through Healing" - this site seeks to encourage healing through the arts. Survivors Art Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering visual, literary and performing artists with effective expressive outlets, via Web Gallery, National Exhibitions, Outreach Programs and Publications. Their goals are to provide entertainment, education, and exposure to the arts, and to raise public awareness, while mainstreaming trauma survivors into the arts. They are expanding their website to include a Children's Web Gallery based on the same principles of our organization. The site includes guidelines for submission. |
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Begun at Ohio State in 1963, this center was the first social science research facility doing field and survey research on disasters. Teams study groups, organizations, and communities as they prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. The center moved from Ohio State to the University of Delaware in 1985. The site offers information about their program and its current research projects. |
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The Violent Death Bereavement Society serves as a centralized forum of information and training for service providers of loved ones and family members after violent death. Their objectives are: to sponsor lectures and workshops for service providers caring for loved ones and family members after violent death; to plan and initiate community-based support services including clinical guidelines for support, screening and focused interventions; to maintain a national registry of experienced clinicians, service providers and regional experts for consultation; and to maintain an updated resource of research reports and literature on the occurrence, recognition and support of bereavement after violent death. |
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Walter Reed Dept. of Social Work - Disaster Mental Health Services |
The Department of Social Work at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center offers this web version of the fine book Disaster Mental Health Services, A Guidebook for Clinicians and Administrators. This version is a group of Adobe Acrobat files and the site offers a downloadable Acrobat reader to those who do not have it. The book itself was published in 1998. Authors Bruce H. Young, et al. are affiliated with the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Department of Veterans Affairs. |
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As noted under "CNN" (listed above), disaster relief workers tend to become addicted to their exciting and rewarding work. Once that occurs, they tend to view the world somewhat differently than others who have never gone out on a relief assignment. When major disasters are happening and they are not able to be part of the action, they are often found to be "wishing-they-were-there" and they spend fair amounts of their free time watching The Weather Channel (and/or CNN) for the latest updates. |
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In 2003 the Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence of the World Health Organization in Geneva (part of the United Nations) published this position paper on assisting populations exposed to extreme stressors. Refugees and others displaced by disasters, wars, terrorism, and genocide are all at great risk for mental health and social problems. |
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Here are some other mental health, psychology, and social work links that may be of interest: |
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The Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) is the association of boards that regulate social work. ASWB develops and maintains the social work licensing examination used across the country, and is a central resource for information on the legal regulation of social work. ASWB is available to help individual social workers and social work students with questions they may have about licensing and the social work examinations. |
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The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) is a nonprofit national association representing over 3,000 individual members as well as graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in this country. |
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The place for social workers on the Net. |
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Internet Mental Health by Canadians Brian Chow and Phillip Long, M.D. |
A free encyclopedia of mental health information. |
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Offers information on many health and mental health topics, with emphasis on trauma and survivor issues. |
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Provides reliable and free mental health information and support. |
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The University of South Carolina’s Social Work Access Network (SWAN) provides social workers various resources for the information age. |
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A place for social workers to hang-out in real time on the Internet. Pull up a cozy chair and get to know the folks who congregate here. |
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A world of resources and support for social workers, social work students and those interested in social issues. |
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Contains a growing collection of social work links. |
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