Student Stress and Trauma - Suggested Websites

Dealing With Trauma: Some Websites to Help Children and Their Adults
AAP Offers Advice onCommunicating with Children about Disasters
http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/disastercomm.htm

After a Disaster: What You Can Do With Your Children
http://www.disastertraining.org/

USA today website with tips for calming young children; explaining disasters to older kids
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2001-09-12-talking-to-kids.htm

Children, Stress, and Natural Disasters: School Activities for Children
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~disaster/teacher/csndact2.html

Connect for Kids: Aftershocks of a National Trauma: Helping Kids Cope
http://www.connectforkids.org/usr_doc/CopingWithGrief.htm

Cornell educational website advising parents on how to help children cope with news of terrorist attacks
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Sept01/Garbarino.kids.bombing.lgk.html

Disaster Handouts & Links
http://www.trauma-pages.com/pg5.htm

Disaster Recovery: Children’s Needs
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/humandev/disas1.html

Helping Children Handle Disaster-Related Anxiety
http://www.nmha.org/newsroom/terrorismtips.cfm

Helping Children Understand Crisis and Trauma
http://www.angelfire.com/biz3/news/v1art1.html

How to talk to children about disaster (current newspaper article)
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~disaster/teacher/csndact2.html

National Association of School Psychologists: Coping with a National Tragedy
http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/Crisis_0911.html

Recognizing Stress in Children
http://www.preparerespondrecover.com/childrensneeds/

Responding to Children after a Crisis: What Parents and Adults Can Do
http://www.ehealthindiana.com/media/releases.asp?go=79

Talking with Kids about Violence
Part of the SesamestreetWorkshop/FEMA project:  Tragic Times, Healing Words
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/parents/advice/article/0,4125,49560,00.html

What to Tell Children about Terrorist Bombings
http://www.trauma-pages.com/bombing.htm

Helping Children Deal with Scary News - Thoughts from Mister Rogers
http://pbskids.org/rogers/parents/sept11.htm

Cranes For Peace - A Project to learn about creating World Peace
http://www.networkearth.org/world/peace.html

One Hundred Picture Books for Peace
http://www.mvls.info/youth/peace.html

New York City Mayor's Office of Emergency Management Helping Children Cope With War and Traumatic Events
http://www.nyc.gov/html/acs/html/copewithwar.html

American Psychological Association - Various materials for parents and children and links to other sites.
http://www.apa.org/psychnet/coverage.html

Managing Traumatic Stress: Tips for Recovering from Disasters
http://helping.apa.org/daily/traumaticstress.html

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Helping Children After a Disaster
http://www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/disaster.htm

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Information about the agency for children and teens (FBI for kids)
http://www.fbi.gov

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - A special website for children and disasters
http://www.fema.org/kids

National Association of School Psychologists - Free resources
http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/resources.htm

National Institute of Mental Health - Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters
Contains in-depth information on Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/violence.cfm

Center for Mental Health Services - Information for parents and teachers about children and disasters
http://www.mentalhealth.org/cmhs/ChildrensCampaign/parents.asp

Public Broadcasting System - A Guide to Children's Grief by Kenneth J Doka
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/articles/children.html

Channel 13 (New York public broadcasting system) - Info for parents and teachers on dealing with tragedy
http://www.thirteen.org/teach/tips.html#parents

New York State Office of Mental Health - Age Related Reactions of Children to Disasters
http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/crisis/crisiscounseling3.html

Purdue University - Tips for parents on discussing terrorism with children
http://www.ces.purdue.edu/terrorism/children/index.html

General coping with tragedy for children
http://www.brighthorizons.com

On Children and Stress
http://www.psych.org/ - American Psychiatric Association sections on coping with trauma/ violence.
http://www.childtrauma.org - Tips for teachers and schools to help children cope with tragic events.

On Grief and Loss
http://www.dougy.org - The Dougy Center: The National Center for Grieving Children and Families is a resource with materials to help children and families with grief and loss.

On International Issues and Relief
http://www.mercycorps.org - International relief and development organization - information and links.

On War and Terrorism
http://www.esrnational.org- Educators for Social Responsibility makes teaching social responsibility a core practice in education.

http://www.talkingwithkids.org - Talking With Kids About Tough Issues, a national initiative to encourage parents to talk with their children about tough issues.

http://www.naeyc.org - Helping Children Cope with Disaster, from the National Association for the Education of Young Children.