Suggested steps:

For those APA members who to-date have not been involved in local outreach efforts through the public education campaign, please contact your state Public Education Campaign Coordinator or State or Provincial Psychological Association to let them know of your interest in this project and/or activities that you are undertaking.

• Contact your Disaster Response Coordinator or State or Provincial Psychological Association - Public Education Campaign Coordinators and members of the Disaster Response Network can join together to help their communities cope with this national trauma. If there is no DRN Coordinator in your state, your State or Provincial Psychological Association may be aware of individual members involved in disaster mental health that you can contact.
  
  
• Develop a resource pool of psychologists - Contact psychologists throughout your community who are willing to be on-call to go to schools and/or community centers to lead discussions about common reactions to this tragedy impacting our entire nation. Set up a telephone tree to reach psychologists or consider posting information on a state or local listserv calling for psychology volunteers who are willing to help. State associations and public education campaign coordinators have received lists of psychologists who have received Warning Signs planning kits. These psychologists may be willing to help. If you need a list of psychologists in your state who have received Warning Signs planning kits, please contact the APA Campaign Services Bureau at 877.274.8787, ext. 136.
  
  
• Keep a list of those willing to help - Develop a way to keep a central list of those who are willing to conduct community meetings and a system for connecting them with school and community leaders seeking help in coping with this trauma.
  
  
• Provide psychologist volunteers with resource materials - The materials you have been provided should be shared with psychologists who volunteer to go into the schools to talk with youth. If they volunteer to assist, the attached discussion guide and resource list should be forwarded to them. You should encourage them to contact schools in their community, particularly ones where they may already have established a relationship by conducting Warning Signs forums.

These materials provided for planning discussion forums include:

• A discussion guide developed by APA members that will help psychologists talk to youth about this tragedy and common emotional reactions.
  
  
• A resource list provided by the APA that can be used by psychologists for background material. This resource list includes Web sites and other materials that can be downloaded and copies for possible handouts. If time permits, you may want to put together a local resource list to hand out to participants. If you are providing telephone numbers and email addresses, please be sure to verify all information (e.g. call the numbers and check the email addresses) before passing the information on to participants.

In addition, if your planning committee has both the time and the resources, you may want to consider taking the following additional step: