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

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

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

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

Talking with Kids about Violence
Part of the SesamestreetWorkshop/Coping with Stressful Events
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/parents/advice/article/0,4125,49560,00.html

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

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

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

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

Purdue University - Tips for parents on discussing terrorism with children
http://www.extension.purdue.edu/purplewagon

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.