Explores personal experiences faced by parents who learn that their child is struggling with suicidal thoughts, teachers who support youth struggling with suicidal thoughts in school, and providers who help youth and families negotiate recovery...
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Discusses the intersection of complex trauma, development, and culture creates a foundation for effective case planning, treatment, and intervention.
Presents a process for threat assessment and management in an educational setting.
Offers information for teens about common reactions to mass violence, as well as tips for taking care of themselves and connecting with others.
Expands the conversation to include those in rural communities who are seeing an increase in Community Violence without the benefit of a service structure, appropriate training or the necessary partnerships to provide optimal care for families.
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.
Offers information on coping after mass violence. This fact sheet provides common reactions children and families may be experiencing after a mass violence event, as well as what they can do to take care of themselves. Translated in 2023.
Highlights three models of community-level approaches for preventing youth violence and reducing health disparities.
Reports on the 2012 recommendations from the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence, which was established to recommend ways to prevent, reduce, and treat children’s exposure to violence.
The Steering Committee of the NCTSN guides the development of the national network of centers to improve treatment and services for all children and adolescents in the U.S. who have experienced traumatic events.