State Resources
The Governor’s Office established webpages to provide listings of resources and assistance for natural disasters. The Flood Resources and the Tornado Resources webpages can be utilized after a flood or tornado to obtain a listing of state government assistance programs, including how to apply for individual assistance, cleanup efforts, caregiver support services, health coverage, housing, mental health services, and missing persons reporting.
The
Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual
Disabilities has compiled a list of supports for Eastern Kentucky, including resources for school staff, youth, and
parents.
The Kentucky
Center for School Safety provides assistance schools to plan, practice and
prepare to provide a safe school environment, including a variety a resources
related to school crisis prevention, response, and recovery.
Kentucky Community Crisis Response Team (KCCRT) provides the entire spectrum of critical incident stress management (CISM) services from pre-incident training, acute crisis response, and post-incident support to emergency services personnel who have encountered a traumatic event. These services are provided at no cost. They serve Emergency Services personnel, school communities, business and industry, and disaster survivors.
Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) are listed alphabetically by county, and individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing are encouraged to call through Video Relay Services (VRS) amplified or captioned phones, or TTY Relay (7-1-1).
KAPS - Kentucky Association for Psychology in the Schools has crisis response resources, including consultation requests, available through its website.
Kentucky School Counselor Association (KSCA)
Kentucky Association for School Social Work (KASSW)
Kentucky Center for Grieving Children & Families
National Resources
SchoolSafety.gov was created by the federal government to provide schools and districts with actionable recommendations to create safe and supportive learning environments for students and educators. The Emergency Planning resources are a starting point for learning more about emergency planning. Use these resources to help prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergency events.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Supportive Students’ Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance (TA) Center worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Public Assistance (PA) Division to develop this Frequently Asked Questions document. These FAQs are meant to assist state education agencies, local educational agencies, schools, and institutions of higher education interested in applying for PA funding to help with recovery efforts following Presidential disaster declarations.
U.S. Department of Education School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) funds short-term education-related services for local educational agencies (LEAs) and institutions of higher education (IHEs) to help them recover from a violent or traumatic event in which the learning environment has been disrupted.
Supporting Schools During and After Crisis – Center on PBIS
The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) has Response and Resiliency Resources sorted into three categories: prevention; recovery – both for those who experienced a traumatic event and those who have heard about a traumatic event; and resilience.
The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement (NCSCB) provides immediate technical assistance and training to schools and communities that are responding to crises, with a focus on supporting their students, both short-term and throughout long-term recovery.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network has resources for dealing with school shootings, disasters, traumatic grief, and many other types of trauma.
The National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) compiled a list of websites and free resources to help support youth, families, schools, and communities coping with hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters.