The following resources on Community Violence were developed by the NCTSN.
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 information for parents and caregivers about how to support their family when a large community event is happening in their city or town.
Offers information for caregivers on unconfirmed death, how it relates to forced displacement, how it is traumatic for children, and how children might respond.
Offers parents and caregivers information to help support their children after the loss of a family member due to homicide.
Provides an understanding of why it is important to talk to children about hate-based violence against AAPI communities, how to recognize signs of traumatic stress and its impact, how to begin a conversation with youth about anti-AAPI hate, and what can be done in response.
Offers strategies for supporting youth who recently experienced a shooting on how to cope with 4th of July celebrations.
Explores how systemic cultural and institutional structures have historically contributed to divisions in the U.S., often creating tensions between communities through policies and social dynamics.
Offers strategies to help parents and caregivers cope with collective traumas. This fact sheet also provides guidance on what parents and caregivers can do to care for their children as they cope. Updated May 2024.
Explores how young people respond to community violence and the lasting effects of marginalization and hate-based trauma. This webinar discusses creative strategies to help youth process these challenges and build resilience.
Focuses on current challenges and recommendations for addressing the needs of young immigrant children, youth and families; highlighting the importance of community partnership, early childhood protections; addressing substance use and its effects, as well as faith based supportive approaches.
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.
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.