Helpful Resources
If you have been impacted by the LA 2025 Fires and/or are assisting those affected by the fires, the following resources may be helpful to you.
Resiliency Within Podcast Episodes
Helping Survivors: Support & Lessons Learned from the Campfire Survivors
Healing Lahaina: Support & Lessons Learned from Campfire Survivors
The Human Toll of Fire Disasters: Helping & Healing Kids & Family
Crisis Recovery for Kids, Parents, and Teachers
Psychology Today Articles
Healing After Disasters
Disasters impact survivors emotionally, physically and spiritually.
Article Key Points:
Survivor's guilt can be an overwhelming response after emerging relatively unscathed when others did not.
Strong emotions and guilt are natural response to an extraordinary event.
Acts of generosity activate brain circuits that support well-being, whether witnessed, given, or received.
Source: NASA through Unsplash
Disaster Relief Management — Community Resiliency Model
Helping survivors of Hurricanes Helene and Milton with a public health approach.
Article Key Points:
The Disaster Relief Mobilization: Community Resiliency Model Program is trauma and resiliency-informed.
It is critical to incorporate community wellness strategies into disaster planning.
Children and adults can learn how to stabilize their nervous systems after disasters to reduce suffering.
Strength-oriented questions highlighting the survival experience can reduce suffering.
How The Body Balances The Score
Somatic self-care intervention can support well-being and promote healing.
Article Key Points:
Healing is not just an individual journey but a communal process that thrives in supportive environments.
Body-based approaches to therapy can help stabilize the nervous system.
“Bottom-up” or body-based therapies can complement “top-down” cognitive approaches.