Crisis Services
ASERT does not offer crisis services through our Resource Center. If you or someone you love is experiencing mental health distress or thoughts of suicide please call or text 988 for support.
Author: Brian Dixon
Managing a Mental Health Crisis: Direct Support Professionals
Project Reassure Direct Support Professionals. What should you do if a person you support is having a mental health crisis? This article discusses some ways of preventing and dealing with a mental health crisis.
Read moreParole Hearing – Social Stories
These social stories discuss what to expect if you have to go through a parole hearing.
Read morePrevalence of Trauma
Project Reassure Direct Support Professionals. One of the first major studies of trauma happened in the 1980’s. A lot of research has been done since that time. Thousands of people have been interviewed in the United States and all over the world.
Read moreProject Reassure: Direct Support Professionals
These resources, developed by ASERT for AID in PA, are designed for Direct Support Professionals to gain an overview of trauma, resilience, and resilience skills. These resources are meant to support the Project Reassure online courses available through the ASERT eLearning platform.
Read moreProject Reassure: For Families and Caregivers
This Collection of resources provides information about Trauma, Resilience, Managing a Mental Health Crisis and the Survival Circuit.
Read moreProject Reassure: For-Self-Advocates
This is a large resource collection created for the Project Reassure initiative. It contains material about: Understanding Trauma, Understanding and building Resilience, and how to implement these tools.
Read moreResilience Skills Overview
This resource explains the resilience skills of Tracking, Resourcing, Gesturing, Grounding, Shift and Stay, and Help Now.
Read moreResilient Zone: Social Story
This resource visually explains the concept of the Resilient Zone and managing emotions.
Read moreResourcing: Social Story
This social story explains the concept of Resourcing to use people, places, things, and ideas to feel better.
Read moreShift and Stay: Social Story
This social story helps explain the idea of Shift and Stay, which helps change thoughts to stay in the Resilient Zone.
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