Describes how young children, school-age children, and adolescents react to traumatic events and offers suggestions on how parents and caregivers can help and support them. Translated in 2023.
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Provides information for parents and caregivers about infectious disease outbreaks in your community. Knowing important information about the outbreak and learning how to be prepared can reduce stress and help calm likely anxieties.
Lisa Conradi, current NCTSN Affiliate and former Executive Director of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families in San Diego, shares how these on-the-ground facts have hindered the type of leadership needed for a successful and robust implementation initiative and how to avoid these pitfalls.
Articulates how a trauma-informed and anti-racist approach can and should drive the NCTSN's collaborative work.
Provides information to the media on what to know about covering traumatic deaths for children and families.
Offers information on why mental health providers are important for grieving children. This fact sheet outlines how children grieve, what Childhood Traumatic Grief is...
Provides parents and caregivers with tools to help them support children who have been victims of sexual abuse, information on the importance of talking to children and youth about body safety, and guidance on how to respond when children disclose
This resource has been retired. Please see our other resources for more up-to-date information on supporting children and families living with trauma and intellectual and developmental disabilities.
NCTSN position statements are developed collaboratively by members of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network in response to important issues in the field.