School Violence Resources

As a parent, you may be struggling with how to talk with your children about a community shooting at a school or elsewhere. It is

The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments is funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Supportive Schools. The Center offers

Listen well, and help them help each other. Paramjit Joshi, MD, is chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children’s National Medical

When tragedy strikes a school community — whether it’s a death at your child’s school or a loss of life so horrific that it affects us all,

Our students want and need to talk about what they see, remember, and are feeling following a school shooting. The adults in their lives can

Over the course of the last few weeks, reports of mass violence and shootings have plagued the news. Although people are resilient and often bounce

In our 24/7 breaking news world, there seems to be a new crisis every day. As news outlets compete for clicks, all of us —

“School shootings” are two words no parent ever wants to hear in the same sentence. But news of these tragic events is now so familiar,

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) was created by Congress in 2000 as part of the Children’s Health Act to raise the standard of

Child Abuse Prevention Training and ResourcesInformation on training and reporting requirements for mandated reporters, training guides and model practices for parents, families, and administrators, and

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Supportive Schools has administered the REMS TA Center to serve two critical functions aimed at helping

High profile acts of violence, particularly in schools, can confuse and frighten children who may feel in danger or worry that their friends or loved-ones

Children and teenagers are better able to cope with upsetting news when they understand more about the event. They need information just as adults do.

Social media defined. The U.S. Department of Education (2012) defines social media as “Forms of communication either Internet or text-based that support social interactions of