Trauma
7-Dippity.com
Contains information on educational programs, books, fundraising, and free downloads on a variety of issues including safety, crisis, the environment, social issues, science, health, and music.
9/11 Memorial Teaching Guide
We are committed to working with teachers to ensure that we offer useful educational programs and materials about the events of September 11, 2001, the historical context of the attacks, and the post-9/11 world. This work is ongoing and we will be continually posting new tools, lessons, and resources for K-12 educators across the country.
9/11, Iraq and Kids: Tips for Parents
The attacks of 9/11 and the ongoing conflict in Iraq have heightened our concerns about the physical and psychological well-being of our children. The articles included in this section address issues such as talking to children, identifying possible difficulties, providing help and reassurance and fostering resilience.
Adults and Children Together Against Violence
The ACT for Strong Families program is housed at and coordinated by the Violence Prevention Office (VPO) in the Public Interest Directorate at APA. The ACT program mission is to mobilize communities and educate families to create safe, nurturing, healthy environments that protect children and youth from violence and its consequences. APA is committed to making psychological knowledge and findings on violence prevention available to mobilize communities, organizations, and professionals to help families apply them in their daily lives.
Albuquerque Public Schools Crisis Team Information
Contains information on suicide, hurricanes, traumatic stress, mental health assessments, and sample forms that can be used by school counselors, teachers, administrators, and parents.
American Red Cross: Masters of Disaster- Facing Fear
Facing Fear was developed to address a demand by educators and caregivers of children for materials to help children cope in uncertain times. The curriculum is a supplement to Masters of Disaster™, children's natural hazard safety curriculum. The format and components are similar, including ready-to-go lesson plans, activities and demonstrations that can be incorporated within core subject areas.
Bibliotherapy for Bereaved Siblings
This site is a great resource for helping children who have experienced the death of a brother or sister.
Bomb Threat Response: An Interactive Planning Tool for Schools
The Bomb Threat CD-Rom is a free interactive planning tool for schools that includes staff training presentations and implementation resources. It focuses on providing a flexible process that will work for any school while ensuring that each school creates an effective plan tailored to its situation. The CD-ROM can be requested at the above website.
Center for the Prevention of School Violence
The Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a resource center and "think tank" for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development.
Child Centered Solutions
The Child Centered Solutions website is specifically tailored to provide children, families and professionals with the resources to educate and manage all types of family conflicts. As a comprehensive online database of local and national resources such as; organizations, government support, articles, books and more, CCS online provides the tools necessary for children, families and professionals to cope with the transitions family conflict often brings.
Child Trauma Academy
The ChildTrauma Academy is a unique collaborative of individuals and organizations working to improve the lives of high-risk children through direct service, research and education. We recognize the crucial importance of childhood experience in shaping the health of the individual, and, ultimately, society. By creating biologically-informed, child and family respectful practice, programs and policy The ChildTrauma Academy seeks to help maltreated and traumatized children.
Child Trauma Institute
Includes brochures, newspaper articles, and scholarly articles pertaining to child trauma.
Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators
Offered by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), and targeting educators and parents, the Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators is a series of fact sheets focusing on trauma in children and adolescents. This toolkit helps educators and parents 1) understand what child traumatic stress is, 2) recognize the sources and signs of traumatic stress in children and adolescents, and 3) get youth the help they may need to recover from traumatic events in their lives. The Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators includes vignettes showcasing youth who have experienced trauma - whether community or domestic violence, physical or sexual abuse, natural disasters, sudden loss or other traumatic situations. The toolkit is designed to increase awareness of the psychological, social and academic impact of trauma on children and adolescents.
Children and the Aftermath of Katrina: From Fear to Hope
Article offering tips on helping children cope after natural disasters.
Children's Safety Network
The Children's Safety Network works with maternal and child health (MCH), public health, and other injury prevention practitioners to provide technical assistance and information, facilitate the implementation and evaluation of injury prevention programs, and conduct analytical and policy activities that improve injury and violence prevention.
Compassion Books
Over 400 resources to help children and adults through serious illness, death, loss, grief and bereavement. Reviewed and selected by knowledgeable professionals.
Consortium to Prevent School Violence (CPSV)
The Consortium to Prevent School Violence (CPSV) has launched a Web site and multiple research, training and information dissemination projects geared to help reduce school violence. The consortium, a primarily volunteer effort, includes national experts in school violence prevention spanning the disciplines of education, psychology, mental health, social services and juvenile justice. According to its Web site, the Consortium to Prevent School Violence is committed to assisting educators and schools in the reduction of school violence.
Coping with Crisis--Helping Children With Special Needs
Staff and parents must consider how children with special needs respond to any form of stress and anticipate these and more extreme reactions following a crisis. Strategies from NASP (National Association of School Psychologists) are listed.
Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools
This report provides a first look at 2003-04 School Survey on Crime and Safety data -- one of the many resources utilized in the "Indicators" report. It focuses on three themes: frequency of criminal incidents at school, use of disciplinary actions, and efforts to prevent and reduce crime at school, as reported by school principals
Crisis Communications Guide and Toolkit
The NEA Crisis Communications Guide and Toolkit provides resources to empower members facing crises and to guide their school communities toward hope, healing, and renewal.
Crisis Counseling Guide
If an emergency/disaster occurs, it is important to recognize normal reactions of children to the event. Reactions of children are generally age related and specific. This section provides an overview of normal reactions within determined age groups and helpful hints for enabling children to cope with the disaster-precipitated stress. Also included is a list of symptoms which may warrant referral to a mental health professional.
Crisis Management Institute
Crisis Management Institute works with schools in developing their own crisis response and violence prevention plans. In addition to having a number of resources on their site, they also offer a number of training opportunities.
December 2007 Supplement: Youth Violence and Electronic Media: Similar Behaviors, Different Venues?
This link is for a December 2007 supplement to the Journal of Adolescent Health. The issue features articles December 2007 Supplement: Youth Violence and Electronic Media: Similar Behaviors, Different Venues? It is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This Journal is the official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM), a multidisciplinary organization committed to improving the health and well-being of adolescents.
Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
This is a guide to help identify early indicators of troubling and potentially dangerous student behavior. The guide was produced by the US Department of Education.
Emergency Mental Health and Traumatic Stress
Provides resources on managing anxiety and coping with traumatic events.
Emergency Planning - Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
As schools and communities across the U.S. prepare and develop plans for responding to potential emergency situations, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige has unveiled this new web resource to help. It is designed to be a one-stop shop that provides school leaders with information they need to plan for any emergency, including natural disasters, violent incidents and terrorist acts. The site will be regularly updated.
Fairfax County Public Schools: Emergency Preparedness and Support
The school division and all FCPS school facilities have safety and security plans. The plans are designed with the help of school security staff members, as well as local law enforcement, emergency management, and public health officials. Plans are regularly reviewed and updated. These plans include procedures to respond to critical incidents, such as fire or tornado, and school system personnel practice these drills regularly. Fairfax County plans, which have been cited by both the US Department of Education, the US Department of Homeland security and the American Prepared Campaign as national models, are made in concert with all other local emergency preparedness plans.
Futures Without Violence
Everyone has the right to live free of violence. Futures Without Violence, formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund, works to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world.
Half of Us
Half of Us, in partnership with mtvU and resources to raise awareness about the prevalence of mental health issues on campus and connect students to the appropriate resources to get help. Their website provides resources on dealing with tragedy, mental health issues, stress and alcohol and drug use.
Helping America Cope
This guide, a free download, contains specific activities and coping strategies to help parents and children deal with their reactions and feelings. The guide is designed to use with students 6-12 years of age, but many of the activities can be adapted for older students as well.
Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2008
A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. It provides the most current detailed statistical information to inform the Nation on the nature of crime in schools. This report presents data on crime at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population from an array of sources--the National Crime Victimization Survey, the School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the School Survey on Crime and Safety and the School and Staffing Survey. Data on crime away from school are also presented to place school crime in the context of crime in the larger society.
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2006
This report issued by NCES and the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, finds that the victimization rate of students ages 12-18 at school declined from 73 incidents per 1,000 students in 2003 to 55 incidents per 1,000 students in 2004. Also, between 2003 and 2005, the percentage of students reporting theft declined from four to three percent. On the other hand, over the same period, there was no measurable drop in the percentage of students reporting violent crime, and drugs and weapons continue to pose problems within schools. This is the ninth in a series of reports; in every year, students were more likely to be victims of serious crime away from school than at school.
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies was founded in 1985 for professionals to share information about the effects of trauma. ISTSS is dedicated to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about policy, program and service initiatives that seek to reduce traumatic stressors and their immediate and long-term consequences.
Lessons Learned: Natural Disasters Toolkit
In response to the disastrous weather that Iowa suffered in 2008 (an EF-5 tornado that devastated one school district on Memorial Day weekend, and floods that ravaged towns and schools all across eastern Iowa in June 2008), the Iowa Association of School Boards is disseminating a compilation of advice for schools called Lessons Learned: Natural Disasters Toolkit. Many schools have plans in place for school violence and other modern-day threats, and have basic plans for fire or tornado drills, but were not nearly as prepared as they could have been for something like a flood or a massive tornado that wipes out documents, property, and has other massive effects. The 16-page document is intended to get school districts thinking seriously about what they need to do to prepare for, and recover from, natural disasters. While some information is Iowa-specific, much of it includes information and advice that would be valuable to districts across the country.
Mothers In Charge
Mothers In Charge was founded by Dorothy Johnson-Speight as a community advocacy and support organization for families affected by violence. Dorothy Johnson-Speight's 24 year old son was murdered over a parking space in December 2001.
The mission of Mothers In Charge is violence prevention, education and intervention for youth, young adults, families and community organizations. In addition, Mothers In Charge works with elected officials on legislation to support safe neighborhoods and communities for children and families and collaborates with community and faith based organizations.
National Center for Children Exposed to Violence
The National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV) exists to increase public and professional awareness of the effects of violence on children and to build the capacity of individuals and communities to reduce the impact of violence.
National Center for Disaster Preparedness; How the NYC Public School System Responded to the Terror of September 11
Uncommon Sense, Uncommon Courage: How the New York City School System, its teachers, leadership, and students responded to the terror of September 11: A report by The National Center for Disaster Preparedness.
National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was created within the Department of Veterans Affairs in 1989, in response to a Congressional mandate to address the needs of veterans with military-related PTSD.
National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement
The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement Center was created to: Promote an appreciation of the role schools can serve to support students, staff and families at times of crisis and loss. Enhance the training of individuals in school-related professional education programs in the areas of crisis and loss. Link efforts to provide trauma-related and bereavement support services within school settings. Collaborate with professional organizations, governmental and non-governmental agencies and community groups to further help students, staff and families at times of crisis and loss. Serve as a resource for information, training materials, consultation and technical assistance for school systems, professional training programs, professional organizations, governmental and non-governmental agencies, communities, children's groups and projects in the areas of crisis and loss.
National Center for Trauma Informed Care
CMHS’s National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC) is a technical assistance center dedicated to building awareness of trauma-informed care and promoting the implementation of trauma-informed practices in programs and services.
National Center for Victims of Crimes
The National Center for Victims of Crime is the nation's leading resource and advocacy organization for crime victims. Since 1985, we have worked with more than 10,000 grassroots organizations and criminal justice agencies serving millions of crime victims.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The mission of NCTSN is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States.
National Crimes Victims Research and Treatment Center
The National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) is a division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. Since 1974 the Faculty and staff of the NCVC have been devoted to achieving a better understanding of the impact of criminal victimization on adults, children, and their families.
National Safe Schools Week
National Safe Schools Week is seven days each fall dedicated to helping students, teachers, parents and administrators raise awareness of the urgent need to keep our schools free from violence.
National School Safety Center
The National School Safety Center was created in 1984 to meet the growing need for additional training and preparation in the area of school crime and violence prevention. NSSC is a non-profit organization whose charge is to promote safe schools-free of crime and violence - and to help ensure quality education for all America's children.
National Youth Violence Prevention Campaign
The National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere (S.AV.E.) is a national nonprofit organization that assists students in starting and operating S.A.V.E. chapters across the country. The mission of S.A.V.E. is to promote the meaningful involvement of students in providing safer environments for learning. S.A.V.E. strives to decrease the potential for violence in our schools and communities by connecting students to safety efforts. The key to S.A.V.E. is that it is student initiated-started by students for students.
North Carolina's Critical Incident Response Kit Project
The Critical Incident Response Kit project offers an approach which enables schools and communities to be "at the ready" should an emergency incident take place. Highlighting a collaborative approach to incident response involving schools, law enforcement, and emergency responders, the project, supported by funding from North Carolina's Governor's Crime Commission, offers information and materials for critical incident response.
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) School Safety Package
The COPS School Safety Package addresses issues such as developing a successful school safety program and emergency response plan; assessing and reducing gang activity in your community; effective responses to reducing bullying in schools; responding to bomb threats against schools; community based approaches to reducing underage drinking; dealing with disorderly youth who congregate in public places; preventing school vandalism and break ins; and gun violence among youth.
PBS Parents
Information for parents on how to talk to children about sensitive subjects, such as the news and violence.
Public Health Training Network Resource List
Here you`ll find a collection of online resources to help schools to prepare for potential terrorism. Federal resources range from a response plan and guidelines for a smallpox outbreak to advice for educators on meeting the needs of students in the aftermath of 9/11. Other sections offer information on the role of states in homeland security, tips on emergency supplies, material on post-traumatic stress, a curriculum teaching students about disaster safety, and much more.
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Resources
This offshoot website of the U.S. Department of Education contains various resources on crisis and trauma for school counselors.
Ready Rating
The American Red Cross has launched a newly program, Ready Rating , to help schools, colleges and universities, and other organizations better prepare for emergencies. Ready Rating is a free, self-paced, web-based membership program that helps an organization measure how ready they are to deal with emergencies, and gives customized feedback on how they can improve their efforts. Ready Rating begins with a comprehensive assessment of whether a school is prepared to handle a disaster. Ready Rating also encourages schools to work with their students, employees and families to get prepared at home.
Red Cross Recommended Emergency Supplies for Schools
Explains what kinds of supplies should be stored, how to create a budget for supplies, and where to store the supplies. This website also recommends what supplies should be included in classroom, whole school, and search & rescue kits.
Responding to a Violent or Traumatic Event Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention
The Higher Education Center's purpose is to help college and community leaders develop, implement, and evaluate programs and policies to reduce student problems related to alcohol and other drug use and interpersonal violence.
RTI Model
Response To Intervention model for working with school success. Dr. Katherine Adams is interviewed by Dr. Jill Geltne(both assistant professors of Psychology and Counseling at Valdosta State University) regarding the Response To Intervention Model for working with school success. - Runtime 52:20.
Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Plan
A downloadable guide for parents about how to keep their child safe from violence.
SAMHSA Disaster Kit
Arms disaster recovery workers with a toolkit on mental health awareness. Includes materials for responding effectively to the general public during and after a disaster and in dealing with workplace stress. Also includes materials for the general public.
School Crisis Guide
The National Education Association Health Information Network (NEAHIN) just released School Crisis Guide: Help and Healing in a Time of Crisis. The new School Crisis Guide incorporates lessons learned from VA Tech, Hurricane Katrina, September 11 and other tragic events. It also provides guidance about preparing for, managing during and recovering from a wide variety of crises. This guide is available online and will be updated regularly and will be responsive to new and different situations as they arise.
School Crisis Response Initiative
This bulletin describes an organizational model for school preparedness and effective responses to crises. Developed by the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence at the Yale Child Study Center, the School Crisis Response Initiative promotes specific training for school personnel as well as interested community members so they can respond more effectively to the needs of children after a crisis.
School Safety in the 21st Century: Adapting to New Security Challenges Post-9/11
This report describes the responsibilities of schools, approaches for prevention, and the role of all persons involved (administrators, teachers, parents, etc.). It also includes assessments and exercises for training and practices.
School Violence Resource Center
The goal of the School Violence Resource Center is to help reduce violence and violence related behavior in American schools. Resources available include fact sheet on school violence and prevention issues, training for School Resource Officers, and flip charts designed to serve as a quick reference for school administrators and teachers on how to react to school emergencies, including student violence, student injuries, child abduction, fire and natural disasters.
Seeking Safety
Seeking Safety is a therapy for trauma / posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance abuse. Includes helpful resources on trauma and PTSD.
Shift Your Perspective Campaign
To promote empowering, engaging and effective trauma-informed care and infuse it in human services throughout the state, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is promoting “Shift Your Perspective,” an educational campaign. This campaign promotes the use of trauma-informed approaches and care in human services throughout the state. While the educational campaign is focused on educating providers, the information is meaningful to anyone who knows a trauma survivor… because shifting your perspective also means promoting healing relationships.
Sidran Foundation
Because many people underestimate the developmental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual injuries that can result when people experience or witness traumatic events, Sidran Traumatic Stress Institute, Inc. (formerly Foundation) is: a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of international scope that helps people understand, recover from, and treat traumatic stress including PTSD, dissociative disorders, co-occurring issues, such as addictions, self injury, and suicidality.
Students Against Violence Everywhere
SAVE is a student driven organization. Students learn about alternatives to violence and practice what they learn through school and community service projects. As they participate in SAVE activities, students learn crime prevention and conflict management skills and the virtues of good citizenship, civility, and nonviolence.
Talking To Your Children About 9/11
Every year, the attacks of 9/11 recede further into the past. However, for those of us who lost someone close or otherwise experienced that day — whether in person or on television — thinking and talking about 9/11 may still evoke strong emotions that transport us back to the tragedy and can jar emotions long forgotten. Current events, such as the death of Osama bin Laden, can do the same. Many others will have little or no recollection of the event itself, understanding its details and ramifications through the lens of a somewhat impersonal history and through media coverage of the event.
Teen, Crime, and the Community Initiative
The Teens, Crime, and the Community (TCC) initiative has motivated more than one million young people to create safer schools and neighborhoods. The program helps teens understand how crime affects them and their families, friends, and communities, and it involves them in crime prevention projects to help make their communities safer and more vital.
Terrorism: Preparing For The Unexpected
The American Red Cross created this document for the general public to help them prepare for the unexpected and to reduce the stress that they may feel after 9/11 and later, should another emergency arise. Schools can use this guide as a resource when developing comprehensive crisis management plans and may also share it with parents as a service to the community.
That's Not Cool: Teen Digital Dating Violence Prevention
The Family Violence Prevention Fund and Office on Violence Against Women designed this website to help teens recognize digital dating abuse and provide them with the tools to initiate a conversation about this issue. The website encourages teens to draw their own lines around what is, or is not, acceptable relationship behavior and seek help from their peers.
The Challenge - Creating Safe and Drug - Free Schools
The Challenge, a newsletter produced by the Learning Systems Group with a grant from the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program, includes interviews with issue experts, ideas from the field and a prevention library.
The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children
Founded in 1990 by William Steele, MSW, PsyD, The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children's (TLC) mission is to provide school professionals, crisis intervention teams, medical and mental health professionals, child care professionals and clinicians with trauma education, training, consultation, referral services and trauma-specific intervention programs and resource materials needed to help children, parents, families, and schools traumatized by violent or non-violent trauma-inducing incidents.
The Program for School Preparedness and Planning
The National Center for Disaster Preparedness is an academically-based resource center based out of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health dedicated to the study, analysis, and enhancement of the Nation's ability to prepare for and respond to major disasters, including terrorism. The Center has posted school preparedness resources.
The State of School Safety in American Schools
This report will provide specific information related to all aspects of the problems faced by schools today and provided specific solutions to many of these problems.
The Youngest Victims: Disaster Preparedness To Meet Children's Needs
From the American Academy of Pediatrics, this website offers tips for preparing to respond to the needs of children during and after a disaster.
Tips For Helping Students Recovering From Traumatic Events
This brochure provides practical information for parents and students coping with the aftermath of a natural disaster or other school-related incident, as well as teachers, coaches, school administrators and others who are helping those affected.
Trauma Informed Models
Models for developing trauma-informed Behavioral Health Systems and Trauma-Specific Services.
Trauma is the Common Denominator, Healing is the Common Goal
Help and Healing resources for victims of violence.
U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Safer Schools Website
This site offers a list of prevention and response programs and training resources, including information about discretionary grant programs and other valuable resources for addressing all aspects of school safety.
UNH Crimes Against Children Research Center
The mission of the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) is to combat crimes against children by providing high quality research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement personnel, and other child welfare practitioners. CCRC is concerned with research about the nature of crimes including child abduction, homicide, rape, assault, and physical and sexual abuse as well as their impact.
US Department of Education Emergency Planning
As schools and communities across the U.S. prepare and develop plans for responding to potential emergency situations, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige has unveiled this new web resource to help.
Violence In The Public Schools
This report presents the first analysis of the 2000 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS). SSOCS is a nationally representative sample of public elementary and secondary school principals. Principals were asked about the amount of crime and violence, disciplinary actions, prevention programs and policies, and other school characteristics. While the SSOCS collects a wide variety of information, this report focuses on the violence that occurred in American public schools during the 1999-2000 school year.
Violence Institute of New Jersey
The Violence Institute of New Jersey was founded in 1997 as a multi-disciplinary center dedicated to the mission of studying and preventing violent behavior among all sectors of the population. The Institute conducts research into the causes and prevention of violence and provides technical assistance and training to policy makers and community stakeholders who are designing policies and programs to address violence.
The organizations, Web sites and other resources listed here are not exhaustive, nor is their inclusion intended as an endorsement by the American School Counselor Association. Rather, these listings are intended to assist school counselors in their efforts to better address children's academic, career, and personal/social development needs.
Contains information on educational programs, books, fundraising, and free downloads on a variety of issues including safety, crisis, the environment, social issues, science, health, and music.
9/11 Memorial Teaching Guide
We are committed to working with teachers to ensure that we offer useful educational programs and materials about the events of September 11, 2001, the historical context of the attacks, and the post-9/11 world. This work is ongoing and we will be continually posting new tools, lessons, and resources for K-12 educators across the country.
9/11, Iraq and Kids: Tips for Parents
The attacks of 9/11 and the ongoing conflict in Iraq have heightened our concerns about the physical and psychological well-being of our children. The articles included in this section address issues such as talking to children, identifying possible difficulties, providing help and reassurance and fostering resilience.
Adults and Children Together Against Violence
The ACT for Strong Families program is housed at and coordinated by the Violence Prevention Office (VPO) in the Public Interest Directorate at APA. The ACT program mission is to mobilize communities and educate families to create safe, nurturing, healthy environments that protect children and youth from violence and its consequences. APA is committed to making psychological knowledge and findings on violence prevention available to mobilize communities, organizations, and professionals to help families apply them in their daily lives.
Albuquerque Public Schools Crisis Team Information
Contains information on suicide, hurricanes, traumatic stress, mental health assessments, and sample forms that can be used by school counselors, teachers, administrators, and parents.
American Red Cross: Masters of Disaster- Facing Fear
Facing Fear was developed to address a demand by educators and caregivers of children for materials to help children cope in uncertain times. The curriculum is a supplement to Masters of Disaster™, children's natural hazard safety curriculum. The format and components are similar, including ready-to-go lesson plans, activities and demonstrations that can be incorporated within core subject areas.
Bibliotherapy for Bereaved Siblings
This site is a great resource for helping children who have experienced the death of a brother or sister.
Bomb Threat Response: An Interactive Planning Tool for Schools
The Bomb Threat CD-Rom is a free interactive planning tool for schools that includes staff training presentations and implementation resources. It focuses on providing a flexible process that will work for any school while ensuring that each school creates an effective plan tailored to its situation. The CD-ROM can be requested at the above website.
Center for the Prevention of School Violence
The Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a resource center and "think tank" for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development.
Child Centered Solutions
The Child Centered Solutions website is specifically tailored to provide children, families and professionals with the resources to educate and manage all types of family conflicts. As a comprehensive online database of local and national resources such as; organizations, government support, articles, books and more, CCS online provides the tools necessary for children, families and professionals to cope with the transitions family conflict often brings.
Child Trauma Academy
The ChildTrauma Academy is a unique collaborative of individuals and organizations working to improve the lives of high-risk children through direct service, research and education. We recognize the crucial importance of childhood experience in shaping the health of the individual, and, ultimately, society. By creating biologically-informed, child and family respectful practice, programs and policy The ChildTrauma Academy seeks to help maltreated and traumatized children.
Child Trauma Institute
Includes brochures, newspaper articles, and scholarly articles pertaining to child trauma.
Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators
Offered by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), and targeting educators and parents, the Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators is a series of fact sheets focusing on trauma in children and adolescents. This toolkit helps educators and parents 1) understand what child traumatic stress is, 2) recognize the sources and signs of traumatic stress in children and adolescents, and 3) get youth the help they may need to recover from traumatic events in their lives. The Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators includes vignettes showcasing youth who have experienced trauma - whether community or domestic violence, physical or sexual abuse, natural disasters, sudden loss or other traumatic situations. The toolkit is designed to increase awareness of the psychological, social and academic impact of trauma on children and adolescents.
Children and the Aftermath of Katrina: From Fear to Hope
Article offering tips on helping children cope after natural disasters.
Children's Safety Network
The Children's Safety Network works with maternal and child health (MCH), public health, and other injury prevention practitioners to provide technical assistance and information, facilitate the implementation and evaluation of injury prevention programs, and conduct analytical and policy activities that improve injury and violence prevention.
Compassion Books
Over 400 resources to help children and adults through serious illness, death, loss, grief and bereavement. Reviewed and selected by knowledgeable professionals.
Consortium to Prevent School Violence (CPSV)
The Consortium to Prevent School Violence (CPSV) has launched a Web site and multiple research, training and information dissemination projects geared to help reduce school violence. The consortium, a primarily volunteer effort, includes national experts in school violence prevention spanning the disciplines of education, psychology, mental health, social services and juvenile justice. According to its Web site, the Consortium to Prevent School Violence is committed to assisting educators and schools in the reduction of school violence.
Coping with Crisis--Helping Children With Special Needs
Staff and parents must consider how children with special needs respond to any form of stress and anticipate these and more extreme reactions following a crisis. Strategies from NASP (National Association of School Psychologists) are listed.
Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools
This report provides a first look at 2003-04 School Survey on Crime and Safety data -- one of the many resources utilized in the "Indicators" report. It focuses on three themes: frequency of criminal incidents at school, use of disciplinary actions, and efforts to prevent and reduce crime at school, as reported by school principals
Crisis Communications Guide and Toolkit
The NEA Crisis Communications Guide and Toolkit provides resources to empower members facing crises and to guide their school communities toward hope, healing, and renewal.
Crisis Counseling Guide
If an emergency/disaster occurs, it is important to recognize normal reactions of children to the event. Reactions of children are generally age related and specific. This section provides an overview of normal reactions within determined age groups and helpful hints for enabling children to cope with the disaster-precipitated stress. Also included is a list of symptoms which may warrant referral to a mental health professional.
Crisis Management Institute
Crisis Management Institute works with schools in developing their own crisis response and violence prevention plans. In addition to having a number of resources on their site, they also offer a number of training opportunities.
December 2007 Supplement: Youth Violence and Electronic Media: Similar Behaviors, Different Venues?
This link is for a December 2007 supplement to the Journal of Adolescent Health. The issue features articles December 2007 Supplement: Youth Violence and Electronic Media: Similar Behaviors, Different Venues? It is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This Journal is the official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM), a multidisciplinary organization committed to improving the health and well-being of adolescents.
Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
This is a guide to help identify early indicators of troubling and potentially dangerous student behavior. The guide was produced by the US Department of Education.
Emergency Mental Health and Traumatic Stress
Provides resources on managing anxiety and coping with traumatic events.
Emergency Planning - Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
As schools and communities across the U.S. prepare and develop plans for responding to potential emergency situations, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige has unveiled this new web resource to help. It is designed to be a one-stop shop that provides school leaders with information they need to plan for any emergency, including natural disasters, violent incidents and terrorist acts. The site will be regularly updated.
Fairfax County Public Schools: Emergency Preparedness and Support
The school division and all FCPS school facilities have safety and security plans. The plans are designed with the help of school security staff members, as well as local law enforcement, emergency management, and public health officials. Plans are regularly reviewed and updated. These plans include procedures to respond to critical incidents, such as fire or tornado, and school system personnel practice these drills regularly. Fairfax County plans, which have been cited by both the US Department of Education, the US Department of Homeland security and the American Prepared Campaign as national models, are made in concert with all other local emergency preparedness plans.
Futures Without Violence
Everyone has the right to live free of violence. Futures Without Violence, formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund, works to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world.
Half of Us
Half of Us, in partnership with mtvU and resources to raise awareness about the prevalence of mental health issues on campus and connect students to the appropriate resources to get help. Their website provides resources on dealing with tragedy, mental health issues, stress and alcohol and drug use.
Helping America Cope
This guide, a free download, contains specific activities and coping strategies to help parents and children deal with their reactions and feelings. The guide is designed to use with students 6-12 years of age, but many of the activities can be adapted for older students as well.
Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2008
A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. It provides the most current detailed statistical information to inform the Nation on the nature of crime in schools. This report presents data on crime at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population from an array of sources--the National Crime Victimization Survey, the School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the School Survey on Crime and Safety and the School and Staffing Survey. Data on crime away from school are also presented to place school crime in the context of crime in the larger society.
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2006
This report issued by NCES and the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, finds that the victimization rate of students ages 12-18 at school declined from 73 incidents per 1,000 students in 2003 to 55 incidents per 1,000 students in 2004. Also, between 2003 and 2005, the percentage of students reporting theft declined from four to three percent. On the other hand, over the same period, there was no measurable drop in the percentage of students reporting violent crime, and drugs and weapons continue to pose problems within schools. This is the ninth in a series of reports; in every year, students were more likely to be victims of serious crime away from school than at school.
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies was founded in 1985 for professionals to share information about the effects of trauma. ISTSS is dedicated to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about policy, program and service initiatives that seek to reduce traumatic stressors and their immediate and long-term consequences.
Lessons Learned: Natural Disasters Toolkit
In response to the disastrous weather that Iowa suffered in 2008 (an EF-5 tornado that devastated one school district on Memorial Day weekend, and floods that ravaged towns and schools all across eastern Iowa in June 2008), the Iowa Association of School Boards is disseminating a compilation of advice for schools called Lessons Learned: Natural Disasters Toolkit. Many schools have plans in place for school violence and other modern-day threats, and have basic plans for fire or tornado drills, but were not nearly as prepared as they could have been for something like a flood or a massive tornado that wipes out documents, property, and has other massive effects. The 16-page document is intended to get school districts thinking seriously about what they need to do to prepare for, and recover from, natural disasters. While some information is Iowa-specific, much of it includes information and advice that would be valuable to districts across the country.
Mothers In Charge
Mothers In Charge was founded by Dorothy Johnson-Speight as a community advocacy and support organization for families affected by violence. Dorothy Johnson-Speight's 24 year old son was murdered over a parking space in December 2001.
The mission of Mothers In Charge is violence prevention, education and intervention for youth, young adults, families and community organizations. In addition, Mothers In Charge works with elected officials on legislation to support safe neighborhoods and communities for children and families and collaborates with community and faith based organizations.
National Center for Children Exposed to Violence
The National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV) exists to increase public and professional awareness of the effects of violence on children and to build the capacity of individuals and communities to reduce the impact of violence.
National Center for Disaster Preparedness; How the NYC Public School System Responded to the Terror of September 11
Uncommon Sense, Uncommon Courage: How the New York City School System, its teachers, leadership, and students responded to the terror of September 11: A report by The National Center for Disaster Preparedness.
National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was created within the Department of Veterans Affairs in 1989, in response to a Congressional mandate to address the needs of veterans with military-related PTSD.
National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement
The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement Center was created to: Promote an appreciation of the role schools can serve to support students, staff and families at times of crisis and loss. Enhance the training of individuals in school-related professional education programs in the areas of crisis and loss. Link efforts to provide trauma-related and bereavement support services within school settings. Collaborate with professional organizations, governmental and non-governmental agencies and community groups to further help students, staff and families at times of crisis and loss. Serve as a resource for information, training materials, consultation and technical assistance for school systems, professional training programs, professional organizations, governmental and non-governmental agencies, communities, children's groups and projects in the areas of crisis and loss.
National Center for Trauma Informed Care
CMHS’s National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC) is a technical assistance center dedicated to building awareness of trauma-informed care and promoting the implementation of trauma-informed practices in programs and services.
National Center for Victims of Crimes
The National Center for Victims of Crime is the nation's leading resource and advocacy organization for crime victims. Since 1985, we have worked with more than 10,000 grassroots organizations and criminal justice agencies serving millions of crime victims.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The mission of NCTSN is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States.
National Crimes Victims Research and Treatment Center
The National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) is a division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. Since 1974 the Faculty and staff of the NCVC have been devoted to achieving a better understanding of the impact of criminal victimization on adults, children, and their families.
National Safe Schools Week
National Safe Schools Week is seven days each fall dedicated to helping students, teachers, parents and administrators raise awareness of the urgent need to keep our schools free from violence.
National School Safety Center
The National School Safety Center was created in 1984 to meet the growing need for additional training and preparation in the area of school crime and violence prevention. NSSC is a non-profit organization whose charge is to promote safe schools-free of crime and violence - and to help ensure quality education for all America's children.
National Youth Violence Prevention Campaign
The National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere (S.AV.E.) is a national nonprofit organization that assists students in starting and operating S.A.V.E. chapters across the country. The mission of S.A.V.E. is to promote the meaningful involvement of students in providing safer environments for learning. S.A.V.E. strives to decrease the potential for violence in our schools and communities by connecting students to safety efforts. The key to S.A.V.E. is that it is student initiated-started by students for students.
North Carolina's Critical Incident Response Kit Project
The Critical Incident Response Kit project offers an approach which enables schools and communities to be "at the ready" should an emergency incident take place. Highlighting a collaborative approach to incident response involving schools, law enforcement, and emergency responders, the project, supported by funding from North Carolina's Governor's Crime Commission, offers information and materials for critical incident response.
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) School Safety Package
The COPS School Safety Package addresses issues such as developing a successful school safety program and emergency response plan; assessing and reducing gang activity in your community; effective responses to reducing bullying in schools; responding to bomb threats against schools; community based approaches to reducing underage drinking; dealing with disorderly youth who congregate in public places; preventing school vandalism and break ins; and gun violence among youth.
PBS Parents
Information for parents on how to talk to children about sensitive subjects, such as the news and violence.
Public Health Training Network Resource List
Here you`ll find a collection of online resources to help schools to prepare for potential terrorism. Federal resources range from a response plan and guidelines for a smallpox outbreak to advice for educators on meeting the needs of students in the aftermath of 9/11. Other sections offer information on the role of states in homeland security, tips on emergency supplies, material on post-traumatic stress, a curriculum teaching students about disaster safety, and much more.
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Resources
This offshoot website of the U.S. Department of Education contains various resources on crisis and trauma for school counselors.
Ready Rating
The American Red Cross has launched a newly program, Ready Rating , to help schools, colleges and universities, and other organizations better prepare for emergencies. Ready Rating is a free, self-paced, web-based membership program that helps an organization measure how ready they are to deal with emergencies, and gives customized feedback on how they can improve their efforts. Ready Rating begins with a comprehensive assessment of whether a school is prepared to handle a disaster. Ready Rating also encourages schools to work with their students, employees and families to get prepared at home.
Red Cross Recommended Emergency Supplies for Schools
Explains what kinds of supplies should be stored, how to create a budget for supplies, and where to store the supplies. This website also recommends what supplies should be included in classroom, whole school, and search & rescue kits.
Responding to a Violent or Traumatic Event Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention
The Higher Education Center's purpose is to help college and community leaders develop, implement, and evaluate programs and policies to reduce student problems related to alcohol and other drug use and interpersonal violence.
RTI Model
Response To Intervention model for working with school success. Dr. Katherine Adams is interviewed by Dr. Jill Geltne(both assistant professors of Psychology and Counseling at Valdosta State University) regarding the Response To Intervention Model for working with school success. - Runtime 52:20.
Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Plan
A downloadable guide for parents about how to keep their child safe from violence.
SAMHSA Disaster Kit
Arms disaster recovery workers with a toolkit on mental health awareness. Includes materials for responding effectively to the general public during and after a disaster and in dealing with workplace stress. Also includes materials for the general public.
School Crisis Guide
The National Education Association Health Information Network (NEAHIN) just released School Crisis Guide: Help and Healing in a Time of Crisis. The new School Crisis Guide incorporates lessons learned from VA Tech, Hurricane Katrina, September 11 and other tragic events. It also provides guidance about preparing for, managing during and recovering from a wide variety of crises. This guide is available online and will be updated regularly and will be responsive to new and different situations as they arise.
School Crisis Response Initiative
This bulletin describes an organizational model for school preparedness and effective responses to crises. Developed by the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence at the Yale Child Study Center, the School Crisis Response Initiative promotes specific training for school personnel as well as interested community members so they can respond more effectively to the needs of children after a crisis.
School Safety in the 21st Century: Adapting to New Security Challenges Post-9/11
This report describes the responsibilities of schools, approaches for prevention, and the role of all persons involved (administrators, teachers, parents, etc.). It also includes assessments and exercises for training and practices.
School Violence Resource Center
The goal of the School Violence Resource Center is to help reduce violence and violence related behavior in American schools. Resources available include fact sheet on school violence and prevention issues, training for School Resource Officers, and flip charts designed to serve as a quick reference for school administrators and teachers on how to react to school emergencies, including student violence, student injuries, child abduction, fire and natural disasters.
Seeking Safety
Seeking Safety is a therapy for trauma / posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance abuse. Includes helpful resources on trauma and PTSD.
Shift Your Perspective Campaign
To promote empowering, engaging and effective trauma-informed care and infuse it in human services throughout the state, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is promoting “Shift Your Perspective,” an educational campaign. This campaign promotes the use of trauma-informed approaches and care in human services throughout the state. While the educational campaign is focused on educating providers, the information is meaningful to anyone who knows a trauma survivor… because shifting your perspective also means promoting healing relationships.
Sidran Foundation
Because many people underestimate the developmental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual injuries that can result when people experience or witness traumatic events, Sidran Traumatic Stress Institute, Inc. (formerly Foundation) is: a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of international scope that helps people understand, recover from, and treat traumatic stress including PTSD, dissociative disorders, co-occurring issues, such as addictions, self injury, and suicidality.
Students Against Violence Everywhere
SAVE is a student driven organization. Students learn about alternatives to violence and practice what they learn through school and community service projects. As they participate in SAVE activities, students learn crime prevention and conflict management skills and the virtues of good citizenship, civility, and nonviolence.
Talking To Your Children About 9/11
Every year, the attacks of 9/11 recede further into the past. However, for those of us who lost someone close or otherwise experienced that day — whether in person or on television — thinking and talking about 9/11 may still evoke strong emotions that transport us back to the tragedy and can jar emotions long forgotten. Current events, such as the death of Osama bin Laden, can do the same. Many others will have little or no recollection of the event itself, understanding its details and ramifications through the lens of a somewhat impersonal history and through media coverage of the event.
Teen, Crime, and the Community Initiative
The Teens, Crime, and the Community (TCC) initiative has motivated more than one million young people to create safer schools and neighborhoods. The program helps teens understand how crime affects them and their families, friends, and communities, and it involves them in crime prevention projects to help make their communities safer and more vital.
Terrorism: Preparing For The Unexpected
The American Red Cross created this document for the general public to help them prepare for the unexpected and to reduce the stress that they may feel after 9/11 and later, should another emergency arise. Schools can use this guide as a resource when developing comprehensive crisis management plans and may also share it with parents as a service to the community.
That's Not Cool: Teen Digital Dating Violence Prevention
The Family Violence Prevention Fund and Office on Violence Against Women designed this website to help teens recognize digital dating abuse and provide them with the tools to initiate a conversation about this issue. The website encourages teens to draw their own lines around what is, or is not, acceptable relationship behavior and seek help from their peers.
The Challenge - Creating Safe and Drug - Free Schools
The Challenge, a newsletter produced by the Learning Systems Group with a grant from the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program, includes interviews with issue experts, ideas from the field and a prevention library.
The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children
Founded in 1990 by William Steele, MSW, PsyD, The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children's (TLC) mission is to provide school professionals, crisis intervention teams, medical and mental health professionals, child care professionals and clinicians with trauma education, training, consultation, referral services and trauma-specific intervention programs and resource materials needed to help children, parents, families, and schools traumatized by violent or non-violent trauma-inducing incidents.
The Program for School Preparedness and Planning
The National Center for Disaster Preparedness is an academically-based resource center based out of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health dedicated to the study, analysis, and enhancement of the Nation's ability to prepare for and respond to major disasters, including terrorism. The Center has posted school preparedness resources.
The State of School Safety in American Schools
This report will provide specific information related to all aspects of the problems faced by schools today and provided specific solutions to many of these problems.
The Youngest Victims: Disaster Preparedness To Meet Children's Needs
From the American Academy of Pediatrics, this website offers tips for preparing to respond to the needs of children during and after a disaster.
Tips For Helping Students Recovering From Traumatic Events
This brochure provides practical information for parents and students coping with the aftermath of a natural disaster or other school-related incident, as well as teachers, coaches, school administrators and others who are helping those affected.
Trauma Informed Models
Models for developing trauma-informed Behavioral Health Systems and Trauma-Specific Services.
Trauma is the Common Denominator, Healing is the Common Goal
Help and Healing resources for victims of violence.
U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Safer Schools Website
This site offers a list of prevention and response programs and training resources, including information about discretionary grant programs and other valuable resources for addressing all aspects of school safety.
UNH Crimes Against Children Research Center
The mission of the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) is to combat crimes against children by providing high quality research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement personnel, and other child welfare practitioners. CCRC is concerned with research about the nature of crimes including child abduction, homicide, rape, assault, and physical and sexual abuse as well as their impact.
US Department of Education Emergency Planning
As schools and communities across the U.S. prepare and develop plans for responding to potential emergency situations, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige has unveiled this new web resource to help.
Violence In The Public Schools
This report presents the first analysis of the 2000 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS). SSOCS is a nationally representative sample of public elementary and secondary school principals. Principals were asked about the amount of crime and violence, disciplinary actions, prevention programs and policies, and other school characteristics. While the SSOCS collects a wide variety of information, this report focuses on the violence that occurred in American public schools during the 1999-2000 school year.
Violence Institute of New Jersey
The Violence Institute of New Jersey was founded in 1997 as a multi-disciplinary center dedicated to the mission of studying and preventing violent behavior among all sectors of the population. The Institute conducts research into the causes and prevention of violence and provides technical assistance and training to policy makers and community stakeholders who are designing policies and programs to address violence.
The organizations, Web sites and other resources listed here are not exhaustive, nor is their inclusion intended as an endorsement by the American School Counselor Association. Rather, these listings are intended to assist school counselors in their efforts to better address children's academic, career, and personal/social development needs.