Talking with Children about Difficult Things
Fred Rogers Institute
Fred Rogers said, “Although children's 'outsides' may have changed a lot over the years, their inner needs have remained very much the same.” This two-page resource offers basic tips for adults.
How To Talk to Your Kids About Tough Topics
Sesame Street
This website offers coping and resilience-building techniques on a variety of challenges like divorce, emergencies, grief, violence, and more.
Isaac's Story
Created by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
This 4-minute animated film helps normalize mental health and encourages all who are wounded somehow to find their strength, rely on friends and family, and hang on to their dreams. The accompanying website provided useful resources.
For Teens: Coping after Mass Violence
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
This 2-page resource explores common responses to acts of violence in the community and offers several coping strategies.
Mass Violence Tip Sheets
Voices: Center for Resilience
This website offers tips to promote healing and community resilience for children, survivors, family, first-responders, and more in the aftermath of mass violence.
Tip Sheets Following Traumatic Events
Voices: Center for Resilience
This website offers tips to promote healing and community resilience for children, survivors, family, first-responders, and more in the aftermath of natural disaster.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Vibrant Emotional Health
Call, text, or chat 988, to be connected to a trained counselor that is part of the existing Lifeline network. Counselors will listen, understand how their problems are affecting them, provide support, and connect them to resources if necessary. This is a public-private partnership of SAMHSA & Vibrant Emotional Health.
Talking To Kids About Fear And Violence
Mental Health America
This website offers a short list of strategies for talking with your child(ren).
Talking to Children About Violence
National Association of School Psychologists
This website offers a list of strategies for talking with your child(ren).
Resource Library on Guns and Violence
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
This website provides a library of resources in the aftermath of a mass shooting.
Resources for Helping Youth after a School Shooting
Youth.gov
This website provides resources and research for a variety of situations that youth may experience.