Documents Translated by LoC

Disasters: Helping Children Cope (3 pg.) [Rus][Ukr]
News and Children (2 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Rom]
Terrorism and War: How to Talk to Children (3 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Pol]

Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Early Childhood Development (25 pg.) [Rus] [Ukr] [Pol]

CDC Crisis and Risk Communication Manual – a comprehensive guide to effective communication in disasters. [ Eng ]
Click here on our dedicated CDC CERC Subpage – we are continuously working to complete this essential toolkit in part or in full in as many languages as possible. Given our mission to help the messaging to get through to those in need, CERC manual is an essential tool we’d like to make available to as many communities as possible.
Asking for help: Do you know how? (1 pg.) [ Rus ]* [ Ukr ] [ Frn ]* [ Tur ] [Ara]
Helping children understand frightening events (2 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ] [ Frn ]* [ Tur ] [Ara] – NEW
Helping Others Calm an Acute Stress Response (1 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ] [ Rom ] [ Frn ]*^ [Ara]
Leadership Stress Management (1 pg.) [ Ukr ] [ Frn ]*^

Facing your feelings workbook

Understanding distress intolerance (12 pp.) [ Ukr ]* 
Accepting distress (10 pp.) [ Ukr ]*
Improving distress (15 pp.) [ Ukr ]*
Tolerating distress (15 pp.) [ Ukr ]*

Lifeline_ Call line materials response management additions (5 pg.) [ Ukr ]

Anxiety in young children: A Military Parents’ Guide through Transition. A Coordinated Approach to Diagnosis and Support (11 pg.) [ Rus ]
Depression in youth: A Military Parents’ Guide through Transition. A Coordinated Approach to Diagnosis and Support (11 pg.) [ Rus ]
Developing positive coping strategies (4 pg.) [ Ukr ]
Fostering Resilience In Children (8 pg.) [ Rus ]
Helping your military connected child with daily stress and frustration (4 pg.) [ Rus ]
Raising a confident child in an uncertain world (6 pg.) [ Rus ]
Supporting Children through Natural Disasters and Loss (5 pg.) [ Rus ]
Web of Support Activity (1 pg.) [ Ukr ]
PFA: Parent Tips for Helping Infants and Toddlers after Disasters (4 pg.) [ Rus ]
Age-related reactions to a traumatic event (2 pg.) [ Ukr ] [ Pol ]
Coping in Hard Times: Fact Sheet for Youth High School & College Age (7 pg.) [ Ukr ]
Helping school-age children with traumatic grief: Tips for caregivers (1 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ]
Helping teens with traumatic grief: Tips for caregivers (1 pg.) [ Ukr ] [ Pol ]
Helping young chilren with traumatic grief: Tips for caregivers (1 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ]
Parent Tips for Helping Adolescents (2 pg.) [ Rus ]* 
PFA: Tips for adults (2 pg.) [ Rus ]
PFA: Appendix A – Overview of Psychological First Aid  (4 pg.) [Ara] – NEW
PFA: All Apendices (53 pg.) [Ukr]
Psychological First Aid for Displaced Children and Families (12 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ] [ Pol ]* [ Rom ] [ Frn ]*
SPR: Field Operations Guide (86 pg.) [Ukr] – NEW
SPR: Appendix A – Gathering Information and Prioritizing Assistance (8 pg.) [ Ukr ] [ Tur ] 
SPR: Appendix C – Promoting Positive Activities Worksheets and Handouts (6 pg.) [ Ukr ]
SPR: Appendix D – Managing Reactions Worksheets and Handouts (30 pg.) [ Ukr ]
SPR: Appendix G Preventing Setbacks Worksheet (Appendix G) (170 pg.) [ Ukr ]
Traumatic Separation and Refugee and Immigrant Children: Tips for Current Caregivers (2 pg.) [ Ukr ]
Understanding child trauma and resilience for military parents and caregivers (7 pg.) [ Rus ]*
Understanding refugee trauma for primary care providers (3 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ]
Understanding Refugee Trauma: For Mental Health Professionals (4 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ]
Understanding Refugee Trauma: For Primary Care Providers (3 pg.)
Understanding refugee trauma: For school personnel (4 pg.) [ Rus ] [Pol]
Working effectively with military families: 10 key concepts all providers should know (4 pg.) [ Rus ]

Grief (4 pg.) [ Ukr ]

Disaster Behavioral Health Just In Time Training: Ukraine (36 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ]
Psychological First Aid and Field Deployment Basics (41 pg.) [ Eng ] [ Ukr ] [Ara] – general introductory slide deck discussing Psychological First Aid, Skills for Psychological Recovery as well as Risk Communication Basics. A good place to start to familiarize yourself with common scope of work in disasters.
Refugee PFA Webinar (125 pg.) [Eng]  [Ukr] – NEW
Risk Communication Basics (26 pg.) [ Eng ] [ Ukr ] 
Self-care action list (3 pg.) [ Rus ] [ Ukr ] [ Rom ] [ Frn ]* [Tur] [Ara]

Honoring Our Babies and Toddlers_ Supporting Young Children Affected By a Military Parent’s Deployment, Injury, or Death (27 pg.) [ Rus ]*

* – Partner-translated – we found a good translation and are listing it here for ease of access.
^ – Our clinicians review the final documents for accuracy. This one is still pending.

Essential Content Useful in Disasters (from other organizations)

Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry: Protecting Health and Fostering Community Resilience – free comprehensive course on disaster psychiatry (English only)

1stA2T Guideline [Eng] [Ukr] – is a free chatbot that aims to “translate” the contemporary knowledge into practical and doable recommendations as it takes into account technical advances on one hand and the current nature of terror attack on the other. The idea was to create a guideline focusing on preparation towards and recommendations for what should (and should not) be done in the first hours, days, week and month after an exposure to traumatic event (and more specifically, terror attack). Content is provided and hosted by “First Aid To Terror.”

IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings * – a comprehensive systems-wide approach to disaster managment – content and translation provided and hosted by the IASC [ Eng ] [ Ara ] [ Rus] [ Tur ] [ Ukr ]

Care for volunteers (72 pg.) [ Eng*] [ Ukr ] [Ara* ] [ Rus* ] – a helpful resource to create a structured approach to caring for those in the front line dealing with stress and trauma. An essential element of sustainable response. Covering PFA and Peer Support basics.

Psychological first aid: Facilitator’s manual for orienting field workers (88 pg.) [ Ukr ]*
Psychological First Aid: Guide for field workers (64 pg.) [ Rus ]* [ Ukr ]*

Turkiye and Syria Earthquake Assistance

In response to the recent earthquake in Türkiye and Syria Languages of Care has been working to produce a set of documents that might be helpful to be used after a disaster of such scale and nature. Many of the same documents are included above but on this page you can find content grouped together to expedite deployment. 

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