Resource matrix – First responders

Emerging Minds, Australia, 2019

Related to Bereavement, loss and grief, Trauma

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This list of available resources relates to the First Responders workshop within the Community Trauma Toolkit.

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Fact sheet

Resource matrix – Educators

Emerging Minds

This list of available resources relates to the Educators workshop within the Community Trauma Toolkit.
Fact sheet

Resource matrix – Community leaders

Emerging Minds

This list of available resources relates to the Community Leaders workshop within the Community Trauma Toolkit.
Fact sheet

Resource matrix – Health and social service practitioners

Emerging Minds

This list of available resources relates to the Health and Social Service Professionals workshop within the Community Trauma Toolkit.
Fact sheet

Self-care essentials for disaster response workers helping infants, children and families

Emerging Minds

This fact sheet outlines self-care essentials for disaster response workers, including information about preparing psychologically and some ideas about what to do if you experience fear or loss of control.
Fact sheet

Providing emotional support to infants, children and families during disasters

Emerging Minds

This fact sheet offers ways to provide emotional support for infants, children and families during disasters.
Fact sheet

Protecting and supporting unaccompanied children during a disaster

Emerging Minds

When children become separated from their parents and family during disaster it can be very distressing. This fact sheet includes guidance on the reunification needs of unaccompanied children and ways to support them.
Fact sheet

Supporting infants, children and families in an evacuation centre

Emerging Minds

This fact sheet includes information about establishing family-focused evacuation centres, creating calming environments, ensuring access to child-friendly spaces and providing psychosocial support.
Fact sheet

Providing psychological first aid to infants, children and families in response to disaster

Emerging Minds

This fact sheet provides information about supporting infants, children and families through disasters using psychological first aid and the five elements of psychosocial support.
Fact sheet

What to tell your children when you are a disaster first responder

Emerging Minds

This fact sheet has been created to support parents and caregivers who take on a 'first responder' role in the immediate and short-term periods following a disaster.
Webinar

Identifying and responding to child sexual abuse: Supporting the mental health of children and young people

Child Family Community Australia & Emerging Minds

This webinar combines practice and lived experience to explore how we as a sector can better identify and respond to child sexual abuse and support victims and survivors to heal and recover. It is intended to complement ‘Trauma prevention and early intervention approaches with children and young people’ which was broadcast in September 2025.
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Resources for supporting infants and children in disasters

This practice guide is a series of resources on child-centred and family-focused approaches in disaster preparedness, response and recovery. It aims to equip you with foundational knowledge and evidence-informed approaches to support infants, children and their families during and after disasters, and promote their long-term healing and wellbeing.
Webinar

Trauma prevention and early intervention approaches with children and young people

Child Family Community Australia & Emerging Minds

Our webinar with Child Family Community Australia (CFCA) focuses on the importance of trauma prevention and early intervention in facilitating the mental wellbeing of children and young people. Drawing on the expertise of Professor Daryl Higgins, a key researcher in the ACMS, and Shankari Sundaram, a counsellor at Rebuild - Relationships Australia South Australia, it also outlines strategies for practitioners, organisations and systems to use in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment.

This resource is part of the following toolkits

Community trauma toolkit

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Resource matrix – First responders

Emerging Minds, Australia, 2019

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Resource matrix – Educators

Resource matrix – Community leaders

Resource matrix – Health and social service practitioners

Self-care essentials for disaster response workers helping infants, children and families

Providing emotional support to infants, children and families during disasters

Protecting and supporting unaccompanied children during a disaster

Supporting infants, children and families in an evacuation centre

Providing psychological first aid to infants, children and families in response to disaster

What to tell your children when you are a disaster first responder

Identifying and responding to child sexual abuse: Supporting the mental health of children and young people

Resources for supporting infants and children in disasters

Trauma prevention and early intervention approaches with children and young people

This resource is part of the following toolkits

Community trauma toolkit

Toolkit Sections: