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This story was developed to help young children and their families talk about feelings and worries they may have after they have experienced an earthquake. The story describes children’s reactions and talks about how their parents help them to express their emotions and feel safer. In the back of the booklet, there is a parent guide that suggests ways that parents can use the story with their children.
View ResourceThis children’s book was developed to help young children and their families talk about feelings and worries they have after experiencing a hurricane. The story describes children’s reactions and talks about how their parents help them to express their emotions and feel safer. In the back of the booklet, there is a parents’ guide that suggests ways that parents can use the story with their children.
View ResourceThis book for children follows two characters, Trinka and Sam, as they learn how to prepare for a tornado. It helps children to understand common reactions and feelings they may experience before, during, and after a tornado.
View ResourceThis 47-page booklet tells the story of Trinka and Sam, two mice who are friends and neighbors who survive a tornado and experience and cope with reactions, with help from their parents. It is designed to help children who have survived tornadoes to reflect on their experiences, and to help parents and other caregivers to talk with their children and support them in coping.
View ResourceThis booklet tells the story of Trinka and Sam, two young mice who are friends and neighbors who survive a wildfire. The booklet covers effects a wildfire can have on a community, as well as the emotions and behaviors children may display after a wildfire.
View ResourceThis 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.
View ResourceThe National Child Traumatic Stress Network Learning Center is a training portal that offers free online education related to child and adolescent trauma. Over 300 of the free online courses offer continuing education certificates, and the portal includes over 200 webinars.
View ResourceThis fact sheet provides an overview of how tornadoes may affect children and families. It then explains the reactions children may have after a tornado and what teachers can do to help them recover from such events. Also included are coping tips for teachers, as they probably also survived the tornado their students experienced.
View ResourceThis training is designed to help mental health and other service providers support children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in coping with and recovering from traumatic experiences such as disasters. The curriculum covers the definition of IDD, how IDD and trauma can impede development in children, and ways to work with children and their families.
View ResourceThis tip sheet provides information for parents on how to limit a child’s exposure to disturbing media images after an earthquake.
View ResourceThis fact sheet offers guidance to mental health professionals working with children in schools after a disaster. It highlights the importance of understanding that schools and school systems are all different from one another and of being flexible when working in a school in a disaster-affected community.
View ResourceThis tip sheet provides information for parents on how to manage exposure to media coverage of tornadoes for themselves and their children. The resource describes how media exposure may affect children and steps parents can take to address children’s concerns and emotions related to media exposure and other discussion of a tornado.
View ResourceThe NCTSN describes tornadoes and the effects they commonly have on children and families. This part of the NCTSN’s website includes information and links to resources about how parents can prepare their families for tornadoes and help their children cope with the effects of a tornado.
View ResourceThis series of fact sheets provides information for school personnel, families, and medical providers on how to help children of military families experiencing grief following the death of a loved one. The series also includes Traumatic Grief in Military Children: Information for Educators.
View ResourceNCTSN is a unique collaboration with a mission to raise the standard of care and increase access to services for traumatized children and their families. Its tsunami recovery page is designed to assist parents and families after a tsunami.
View ResourceThe National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is a unique collaboration with a mission to raise the standard of care and increase access to services for traumatized children and their families. Its earthquake recovery page is designed to assist parents and families after an earthquake.
View ResourceThis fact sheet provides an overview of secondary traumatic stress and its potential impact on professionals involved in the care of traumatized children and their families. It discusses how to identify secondary traumatic stress and presents strategies for preventing and addressing the issue.
View ResourceThis tip sheet explains how teens may experience traumatic grief following a disaster or other traumatic event. It describes 10 ways teens may feel, behave, and express themselves as they go through a period of grief. It also suggests ways parents or caregivers can support them and identifies signs that a teen might benefit from seeing a mental health professional.
View ResourceThis part of the NCTSN’s website describes hurricanes and how they often affect children and families. Information and resources are also provided to help children and teens through response and recovery after hurricanes.
View ResourceThis tip sheet provides information about the traumatic grief that Children and Youth DBHIS may experience after a disaster or other traumatic event. It explains that school-age children my experience traumatic grief differently from adults and suggests tips for parents and caregivers to support them in moving through and coping with grief.
View ResourceThis tip sheet explains how young children may experience traumatic grief, which can arise after a disaster or other traumatic event in which the child lost a loved one. The tip sheet lists ways in which young children may go through and express traumatic grief and offers suggestions for parents and other caregivers to support children in coping.
View ResourceThis fact sheet is designed for parents and contains information on how to talk to children about tsunamis.
View ResourceThis fact sheet describes how hurricanes can affect children, adolescents, and families; identifies common reactions to hurricanes in children; and suggests ways for teachers to support their students. The fact sheet emphasizes the importance of teachers’ taking care of themselves in order to be able to help their students.
View ResourceThis document informs teachers of common child reactions to earthquakes and provides tips on supporting children after an earthquake.
View ResourceThis document provides parents with tips on how to respond to their adolescent child after a disaster. The document describes adolescents’ possible reactions to disasters, appropriate responses, and examples of things that parents and other caregivers can do and say.
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