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Your Child and Gangs: What You Need to Know about Trauma - Tips for Parents

NCTSN Resource

Resource Description

Provides parents and caregivers with information gangs and trauma. This fact sheet offers a brief vignettes about teens who have become involved with local gangs. It highlights what traumatic stress is, why gangs appeal to traumatized youth, and what parents can do to help their children.

Published in 2008