Community Stress First Aid
Recognise stress injuries, know what helps, and reach the right line fast.
Community Stress First Aid is a reference for the moment you are sitting with someone who is not doing well and you are not sure what to do next.
It is built around the stress continuum - a four-step scale from Ready, through Reacting and Injured, to Ill. The same four steps run through every screen, so once you can place where someone is, the app tells you what that looks like and what actually helps.
WHAT IS IN IT
- Suicide Intervention - the ACE steps: Ask, Care, Escort. Direct language for asking the question, and what to do once it has been asked.
- Crisis Referral Path - Critical, Urgent, Moderate and Mild, with the right level of response for each.
- Stress Continuum - the model itself, and what each of the four zones means.
- Stress First Aid Model - the Seven Cs: Check, Coordinate, Cover, Calm, Connect, Competence, Confidence.
- Stress Indicators - what Ready, Reacting, Injured and Ill look like in a person, and what they look like in a family.
- Actions To Help - what to do at each zone, written twice: once for individuals and families, once for leaders.
- More Resources - the national lines, with the organisation each one belongs to.