Discusses research findings and real-life experiences to better understand how gang involvement affects young people’s emotional and psychological well-being.
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Discusses child maltreatment and domestic violence issues impacting military families and children.
Helps youth recognize that community violence does not have to dominate their lives if they understand their reactions to it, understand how to keep themselves safe, and understand how to make positive choices in dangerous times.
Offers teachers guidance on helping students after a mass violence event. This fact sheet describes common reactions students may have, how teachers and school staff can help, as well as engage in self-care after a mass violence event.
Describes common reactions to mass violence and provides tips for parents on how to care for themselves and their child. Updated March 2021.
Describes assessment strategies and evidence-based interventions for interpersonal violence in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic across development, with a focus on 1) how to ask children about their trauma experiences and responses; 2) the use of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) for young...
Provides information about suicide risk and ethnoracial identity.
Provides community violence workers with information about secondary traumatic stress (STS).
Features James, a 16-year-old African American youth who has been living with his maternal uncle, Patrick, since he and his two younger sisters were removed from their biological parents three years ago when James reported to a teacher that his fa
Gives questions for youth to answer to determine if they have experienced community violence.