Category | Title | Description |
Website | FBI’s Death Notification Protocol: We Regret to Inform You | Training website for law enforcement agencies and other first responders responsible for notifying the family members of those who have died suddenly as a result of a crime, an accident, a suicide, or other type of incident |
Mass Casualty Incident | National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center | Charged with developing a national victim-centric framework that addresses best practices for preparing for and responding to incidents of mass violence and domestic terrorism. |
Mass Casualty Incident | OVC Training and Technical Assistance Center | OVC TTAC offers FREE Customized Technical Assistance to meet your organization's needs. Contact OVC TTAC at TTAC@ovcttac.org or 1–866–682–8822. |
Mass Casualty Incident | Vicarious Trauma Toolkit | This OVC toolkit contains nearly 500 resources to help organizations strengthen their ability to address work-related exposure to trauma. |
Mass Casualty Incident | OVC Helping Victims of Mass Violence and Terrorism Toolkit | Provides resources to help organization's develop a victim assistance plan to respond to victims of mass violence and terrorism in a timely, effective, and compassionate manner. |
Public Health | ASPR TRACIE Mass Casualty Triage Paradigms and Pitfalls White Paper | Focus is to alert EMS medical directors and EMS systems planners and hospital emergency planners to key differences between “conventional” MCIs and mass violence events. |
Mass Casualty Incident | Communications Toolkit for Stakeholders - FGA Resources | Resources to help emergency responders prepare for and respond to a fourth generation nerve agent incident (Novichoks or A-series nerve agents). |
Public Health | Checklist for first responders to ensure language access and effective communications during emergencies | HHS checklist to help first responders provide services to individuals with limited English proficiency and individuals with disabilities during emergency response and recovery efforts. |
Natural Disaster | ASPR Hospital Preparedness Program | HPP prepares our nation’s healthcare system to save lives during emergencies and disasters |
Natural Disaster | ASPR Hospital Preparedness Program - EMS Participation | Importance of EMS being fully engaged in preparedness activities at local and regional levels. |
Stop the Bleed | ACS COT Stop The Bleed - Instructor Requirements | The ACS COT Stop The Bleed instructor program aims to facilitate the wide dissemination of this program while maintaining a consistently high standard of training. |
Public Health | CDC’s Public Health Preparedness and Response 2018 National Snapshot | Review and analysis of public health threats by addressing challenges, strategies, and how to move the dial. |
Public Health | Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) and disasters | Fact sheet on EMTALA and disasters with links to resources for more information. |
Mass Casualty Incident | Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER) Program | NFPA 3000™ (PS) helps communities establish unified active shooter/hostile event planning, response and recovery programs. |
Mass Casualty Incident | Transcending Tragic Trajectories: A Post - Disaster Resilience Check List | Presentation by Stefan Poloczek, EMS Medical Director from Berlin, Germany. |
Mass Casualty Incident | ASPR’s Vision of Enhancing Medical Surge Capacity | A New Approach to Health Care Emergency Preparedness and Response. |
Natural Disaster | Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy & Recommendations for Improved Healthcare & Public Health Response & Recovery for Future Catastrophic Events | A research project developed to evaluate how the healthcare system was negatively affected in preparation for, during, and after Hurricane Sandy. |
Mass Casualty Incident | Deadliest American Disasters and Large-Loss-of-Life Events | Deadliest American/U.S. disasters and other large-loss-of-life events (10 or more lives lost) |
Public Health | 35 U.S. Hospitals Designated as Ebola Treatment Centers | CDC listing of current Ebola treatment centers |
Public Health | CDC information on Ebola for healthcare workers | Information for health care workers; algorithm under the section “Medical Transport.” |
Public Health | Algorithm for management of patients with possible Ebola | Algorithm for EMS systems and 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) for management of patients with possible Ebola in the United States. |
Public Health | The Ebola Improvement Plan | The Ebola Improvement Plan focuses on the main areas of concern, including global health security, incident management, public health, medical countermeasures and response funding. 2016 |
Public Health | How Ebola spreads | Infographic on the spread of the deadly virus, and how officials have responded. |
Mass Casualty Incident | Dept. of Homeland Security Project Responder 5 | Report to identify, validate and prioritize capability needs for emergency response to critical incidents, including complex, multi-jurisdictional, large-scale, high-risk, high-probability or high-consequence incidents, or incidents that have important social or economic impacts. |
Mass Casualty Incident | Improving Active Shooter/ Hostile Event Response | Addressing the improvement of active shooter/hostile event response. |
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