Developed for institutions of higher education, this guide incorporates lessons learned from recent incidents and recommendations from experts in the field to provide guidance for emergency planners revising and updating existing emergency operations plans. This resources was jointly developed by the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services.

This children’s book follows Rosie, a young girl who is struggling after the death of her mother. It provides parents with strategies for offering support and encouraging healthy coping strategies for children struggling with grief. The children’s book is also adapted into a video format.

This children’s book follows Rosie, a young girl who is struggling after the death of her mother. It provides parents with strategies for offering support and encouraging healthy coping strategies for children struggling with grief. The children’s book is also adapted into a video format.

This part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's website defines childhood traumatic grief and explores its effects and possible interventions. It also links to related resources.

This resource created for schools highlights the importance of readiness, response, and recovery to ensure school community resilience after a school tragedy incident. It focuses on strategies to support student and family recovery after incidents of violence and trauma, explores the importance of culturally competent response, and provides resources for school community members.

Created as part of the Coalition to Support Grieving Students’ Crisis & Special Circumstances module collection, this module features a recorded training that provides school community leaders with recommendations for supporting student and school personnel bereavement. It emphasizes the importance of planning and providing additional support to community members.

This web page provides parents and caregivers with recommendations for supporting their child’s return to school after experiencing a tragedy, which can include mass violence incidents. It includes guidance for supporting children’s feelings, emphasizing school safety, and seeking further assistance if needed to ensure students’ comfort and resilience.

This web page provides parents and caregivers with recommendations for supporting their child’s return to school after experiencing a tragedy, which can include mass violence incidents. It includes guidance for supporting children’s feelings, emphasizing school safety, and seeking further assistance if needed to ensure students’ comfort and resilience.

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 article provides parents and caregivers with tips for talking to children about racism and acts of violence. It highlights the importance of discussing these topics with youth and provides strategies and resources to support open discussion.

This article provides parents and caregivers with tips for talking to children about racism and acts of violence. It highlights the importance of discussing these topics with youth and provides strategies and resources to support open discussion.

This web page from Sesame Street in Communities provides resources parents and caregivers can share with their young children to initiate conversations about incidents of violence. The resources highlighted include videos, articles, storybooks, and printable activities that adults can explore to help their child understand and cope with the effects of violence.

This online article introduces the concept of spirituality, explains how spirituality relates to trauma, identifies aspects of trauma most likely to affect spirituality, and suggests ways for spiritual and religious leaders and mental health care practitioners to support people with trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Links to additional information about PTSD are provided.

This document describes common responses of children dealing with the death of a pet and provides tips about ways to cope with the grief and difficult decisions that may need to be made.

This document provides guidance regarding how to cope with the immediate grief experienced when a pet dies. It provides 10 steps that may help pet owners feel better and manage their grief.

This video prepares practitioners to provide trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) to help children with traumatic grief. It features role playing of each component of TF-CBT.

This paper reports on a study in which researchers examined associations between and among the death of a pet, perceived social support after a hurricane, and psychological distress. [Citation: Lowe SR, Rhodes JE, Zwiebach L, Chan CS. J Trauma Stress. 2009 Jun;22(3):244-7. doi: 10.1002/jts.20403.]

The Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement is a nonprofit organization staffed by volunteers trained in pet bereavement counseling. This organization is dedicated to helping people through the grieving process.

This website features information and resources on a range of topics relevant to military families, such as military homecomings, the transition to civilian life, and relocation. Resources include videos, coloring and activity books, and tips for supporting children and other members of military families in coping with the stressors of military life.

This document provides tips for developing a pet memorial that might help with coping and grief by providing a loving reminder of the pet.

CTG Web is a follow-up training course to TF-CBT web that teaches therapists how to apply TF-CBT to cases of child traumatic grief. The course also includes streaming video demonstrations, clinical scripts, cultural considerations, clinical challenges and other learning resources related to TF-CBT and tailored for childhood traumatic grief.

This document provides information on understanding grief and the grieving process after the death of a pet. It reviews different ways to grieve and includes tips for coping with grief experienced when a pet dies.

This online article includes information regarding the grief process as it relates to the death of a pet. It discusses ways that both children and older adults may cope differently from other age groups and includes possible signs of grief in other pets still at home.

This website section provides information on what to do after experiencing the death of a loved one. It includes symptoms of grief, next steps, and resources. It also includes actual stories from service members who share their losses.

This webpage lists emotions that may be experienced by a military service member or a family member of a military service member who has experienced the death of a loved one. It includes tips for effective coping following such a loss and also includes tips for helping others with their grief.