Disaster Behavioral Health All-hazards Planning Guidance

Disasters impact all of us. In March of 2020 the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, a public health emergency that impacted most of us personally in one way or another (Cucinotta & Vanelli, 2020). The 2023 global search results in Google highlight how disasters impact us, with 9 of the top 10 news searches related to a type of disaster, including hurricanes (3), wars (2), mass shootings (2), a tragedy at sea, and an earthquake (Google, n.d.). In our interconnected world, if we have not been directly impacted by a disaster, we probably know somebody who has. With a 24-hour news cycle and the impact of social media, stories of a disaster’s impact seem closer to home than ever before.

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