Promoting Mental Health for Disasters & Community Mental Health Promotion

A broad community-based approach is the best way to prepare and improve community member’s social and mental health needs. This approach includes all areas of a community to meet and improve the mental health of those that live in them. This can help to prepare, respond, and recover from disasters or emergencies.

These are resources and tools that can be printed or distributed electronically to improve the mental health well-being within families and communities:

• Preparing for a disaster or emergency
• Responding to a disaster or emergency
• Recovery from a disaster or emergency

These are learning opportunities that can help to build mental health well-being:

• D-Stress - Learn how to identify stress and build skills to coping during stressful times.
• Emergency Preparedness (E-Prep) - Learn ways to prepare emotionally, socially, and physically to help prepare for an emergency or a disaster.
• Psychological First Aid (PFA) - Learn ways to provide practical support to people during a disaster or emergency.
• Psychological First Aid for Supporting Indigenous Communities (PFAIC) - Learn ways to provide culturally safe and inclusive support in a disaster.
• Psychosocial Disaster Learning Series - A chance for existing PFA Responders to review skills prior to responding to a disaster.
• Relationship Skills - Learn ways to support healthy relationships with yourself and others.
• Wellness Exchange - Learn 5 ways to support your mental wellbeing.

Mental health promotion learning opportunities can help to improve or maintain mental health and well-being. If you are interested, please participate in some learning opportunities and consider becoming a facilitator to help others! You can also find these workshops on Help in Tough Times under Mental Health Workshops.

If you are a health professional and think some of our resources and learning opportunities might be helpful in your work, please visit the information available for health professionals.

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Questions or concerns, email us at: hpdip.mh.earlyid@recoveryalberta.ca