These fact sheets from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network discuss challenging financial circumstances and economic hardships that can negatively affect youth, families, and communities. The series offers practical ways to address the challenges during economic hardships by improving a sense of safety, calming, self- and community efficacy, connectedness, and hope.

In this app designed for children in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, participants help cities prepare for four types of natural disasters (earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes).

This guide offers strategies for teens to develop their own resiliency.

This children’s book tells the story of a boy named Jeremy who is experiencing childhood traumatic grief (CTG) after his father’s death. The story highlights signs and symptoms of CTG that Jeremy experiences and traces his acceptance of his loss and beginning of recovery.

Launched in 2003, Ready is a national campaign designed to educate Americans and help them prepare for and respond to emergencies, including natural and human-caused disasters. This section of the Ready website features information and games for children, family preparedness tools for parents and other caregivers, and tools and a curriculum for teachers to make schools safer and educate children and teens about emergency preparedness.

This website explains actions the general public can take to remain safe and healthy in the event of an earthquake.

These fact sheets from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network discuss challenging financial circumstances and economic hardships that can negatively affect youth, families, and communities. The series offers practical ways to address the challenges during economic hardships by improving a sense of safety, calming, self- and community efficacy, connectedness, and hope.

This is an informational document with tips and ideas for students who want to build resilience to manage stress.

This tip sheet discusses ways to cope with the psychological effects of a drought and the difficult decisions it can cause and provides guidance in family decision-making related to drought.

The American Red Cross offers a variety of disaster preparedness apps on topics such as floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, and an all-inclusive emergency app that monitors 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts. The apps provide alerts, as well as a check-in system to let your loved ones know you are safe. There is also an app for children to teach them preparedness for real-life emergencies.

This site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Women’s Health (OWH), was created to help girls (ages 10-16) learn about health, growing up, and issues they may face. It focuses on health topics about which girls are concerned and helps motivate them to choose healthy behaviors by using positive, supportive, and nonthreatening messages.

This tip sheet describes briefly how a tornado may have affected teens and their communities. It offers ways for teens to help themselves and others recover from emotional reactions after a tornado.

This tip sheet describes briefly how a disaster-affected community may look in the immediate aftermath of a tornado. It identifies feelings teens may have soon after a tornado, and it offers teens ways to help themselves and those around them with coping.

This guide explores the importance of resilience and offers strategies for teens to develop their own resiliency. It identifies 10 tips to build resilience, including strategies for self-care and engaging in social activities, and encourages adolescents struggling with resilience to reach out to a trusted adult or professional.

This web page provides an overview of disasters, how they affect children, and how parents can offer support. It presents links to fact sheets, answers to parents’ frequently asked questions, and policies and articles for clinicians. The web page also features information and links for finding help for a child or adolescent struggling with his or her disaster reactions.

The National Drought Mitigation Center helps people and institutions develop and implement measures to reduce societal vulnerability to drought, stressing preparedness and risk management rather than crisis management. This web page focuses on helping children better understand drought.

This site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health, was created to help girls ages 10–16 learn about health, growing up, and issues they may face. This page focuses on explaining posttraumatic stress disorder, exploring symptoms, and providing tips for coping with natural disasters, school violence, and other events.

Ready is a national campaign designed to educate Americans and help them prepare for and respond to emergencies, including natural and human-caused disasters. This section of the Ready website features information and games for children, family preparedness tools for parents and other caregivers, and tools and a curriculum for teachers to make schools safer and educate children and teens about emergency preparedness.

This web page offers a collection of free, downloadable resources for adolescents and young adults focusing on substance misuse, coping with disasters, and other traumatic events. The highlighted resources are listed by age groups including middle school youth, high school youth, and college students.

Developed for mass violence event survivors and their families, this web page features a collection of resources for victims. It includes helpline information, information regarding victim compensation programs, referrals to victim support organizations, and links to relevant resources such as tip sheets and mobile apps.

This collection features resources that focus on mass violence events. It provides resources such as tip sheets, trainings, and videos for parents, caregivers, educators, and children preparing for, responding to, or recovering from mass violence events.

This collection features resources that focus on school shooting events. It provides resources such as tip sheets, trainings, and videos for parents, caregivers, educators, and children preparing for, responding to, or recovering from school shooting events.

This fact sheet identifies emotions, feelings, and physical symptoms that young people may experience after a disaster and offers ways to reduce stress and begin the healing process.

This tip sheet provides information for religious leaders about common stress reactions to a disaster and suggests ways they can cope, and help others cope, with these reactions. The tip sheet also provides information on referring people for mental health services.

This website from Kids Health presents basic pandemic influenza information that parents or other caregivers can review with Children and Youth DBHIS.