With worsening climate conditions around the world, globalization-fueled public health dangers such as COVID-19 and local incidence like apartment fires, communities are experiencing disaster-related stressors more frequently. The Chronic Cyclical Disasters blueprint provides a way for behavioral health workers and volunteers to understand what a community is experiencing and how to help them. We will provide an overview of the blueprint as a whole and how it can be applied by behavioral health professionals, community leaders, first responders and survivors themselves to better understand behavioral and emotional responses in the face of overlapping disasters.
Learning Objectives:
Critically review their community’s stress load threshold to apply the best actions to mitigate further stress as another disaster occurs.
Utilize cumulative stress load factors by addressing an individual’s underlying stress factors and understanding how those stresses can affect their disaster response.
Develop a plan for behavioral health response when another disaster strikes a community before they can move into the growth and recovery phase.
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