Offers guidance on talking with teens when violence happens. This fact sheet includes information on checking in with yourself, clarifying your goal, providing information and options, reflection, asking helpful questions, going slow, labeling emotions, validating, and monitoring media and social media exposure.
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Details information about interventions for children exposed to violence. This is a chapter in the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute report Interventions for Children Exposed to Violence.
Offers information for teens about common reactions to mass violence, as well as tips for taking care of themselves and connecting with others.
Expands the conversation to include those in rural communities who are seeing an increase in Community Violence without the benefit of a service structure, appropriate training or the necessary partnerships to provide optimal care for families.
Provides community violence workers with information about secondary traumatic stress (STS).
Gives questions for youth to answer to determine if they have experienced community violence.
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.
Highlights three models of community-level approaches for preventing youth violence and reducing health disparities.
Looks at community violence, an ongoing crisis in society as many youth and families feel the destructive repercussions of peer conflicts, gun and other weapon attacks, gang fights, and public violence incidents.
Discusses the key causes, major consequences, and professional responses related to community violence and its traumatic stress-related impacts on youth.