Provides community violence workers with information about secondary traumatic stress (STS).
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Discusses the key causes, major consequences, and professional responses related to community violence and its traumatic stress-related impacts on youth.
Addresses the issues facing poor, urban, African American children who deal with traumatic stress. The webinar discusses how conceptions of race and racism have an impact on these children and their families.
Offers some statistics about gang-involved youth and their exposure to traumatic events.
Provides parents and caregivers with information gangs and trauma. This fact sheet offers a brief vignettes about teens who have become involved with local gangs.
Helps youth recognize that community violence does not have to dominate their lives if they understand their reactions to it, understand how to keep themselves safe, and understand how to make positive choices in dangerous times.
Provides perspectives on the institutional responses to the links between community violence and COVID-19 including law enforcement, juvenile justice, national disaster, and mental health systems.
Explores both the historical and current causes for disproportionality.
Outlines the history of shootings and violence in US schools.
Offers parents and caregivers information to help support their children after the loss of a family member due to homicide.