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Talking to Children When Scary Things Happen
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers guidance on talking with children and youth when scary things happen.
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Families and Caregivers
Parents and caregivers play an essential role in helping children and teenagers recover from traumatic events. These resources are for parents, adoptive parents, resource/foster parents, grandparents, caregivers, and all others who care for children and teens. The more caregivers learn about how traumatic events affect their children (whether toddler, school-age, teen, youth, or adult), the more they understand the reasons for their children’s behaviors and emotions, and the better prepared they are to help them cope. When children know that caring adults are working to keep them safe and support them in understanding their reactions to trauma, most can recover and go on to live healthy and productive lives.
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Talking to Teens When Violence Happens
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers guidance on talking with teens when violence happens. This fact sheet includes information on checking in with yourself, clarifying your goal, providing information and options, reflection, asking helpful questions, going slow, labeling emotions, validating, and monitoring media and social media exposure.
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Well-being Practices: Gentle Reminders for Times of Stress
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers gentle reminders for well-being practices in times of stress. This fact sheet includes information on welcoming the body's stress response, completing the stress cycle, connection & relationship, emotion skills & practices, and mindfulness & attention.
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After a Crisis Helping Young Children Heal (in Romanian)
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers tips to parents on how to help young children, toddlers, and preschoolers heal after a traumatic event. Translated 2022.
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After a Crisis: Helping Young Children Heal (in Dari)
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers tips to parents on how to help young children, toddlers, and preschoolers heal after a traumatic event.
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Understanding Trauma: What to Expect When You are Reunited with Your Child
Type: Tip Sheet
Offers parents and caregivers information about traumatic separation and reunification, including what traumatic experiences are, how children react to trauma, and ways to heal.
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Family Members/Caregivers: Things to Consider Before Serving on Advisory Boards
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides information for family members and caregivers who are trying to decide whether or not to serve on advisory boards.
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The Power of Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Addressing Fears and Feelings from Prior Losses
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides caregivers guidance about how to address fears and feelings of prior losses that are coming up during COVID-19. This fact sheet offers information on loss and trauma reminders, coping with separation, and the mind body connection.
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The Power of Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Helping Children Cope with the Impending...
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides caregivers guidance about how to address the impending death of a loved one due to COVID-19. This fact sheet offers information on anticipating a death, preparing a child for the death, and saying goodbye.
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The Power of Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mourning the Death of a Loved One
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides caregivers guidance on mourning a death of a loved one due to COVID-19. This fact sheet offers information on saying goodbye when you couldn't be there, understanding developmental differences in behaviors associated with grief, and seeking alternative support if needed.
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Como Ayudar a los Ninos a Lidiar con la Pandemia de COVID-19
Type: Fact Sheet
Ayuda a los padres y cuidadores a abordar las inquietudes y preocupaciones de sus hijos en cuanto a la pandemia de COVID-19 y las perturbaciones experimentadas en su vida normal.
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Helping Children Cope with the COVID-19 Pandemic
Type: Fact Sheet
Helps parents and caregivers address their children's concerns and worries arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruptions of normal life that we are experiencing.