
Age-Related Reactions to a Traumatic Event
Describes how young children, school-age children, and adolescents react to traumatic events and offers suggestions on how parents and caregivers can help and support them.
Winter storms are bad weather that generates precipitation at low temperatures such as snow, sleet, and freezing rain. Winter storms can range from light snow flurries to a blizzard, which is a long-lasting storm with very strong winds and intense snowfall. Because strong winds can carry heat away from the body, it may often feel colder outside during a storm than the temperature would indicate, called the wind chill. Risks due to winter storms can include traffic accidents on icy roads, heart attacks from shoveling snow, or hypothermia from prolonged exposure to the cold.
Being prepared beforehand is the best way to help children and family members stay safe during a winter storm. To improve their preparedness, families should:
Knowing what to do during a winter storm can help families stay safe. Consider the following:
During a winter storm watch, families should:
During a winter storm warning, families should:
After a winter storm, most families will recover and be able to return to their normal routines rather quickly. Most children will demonstrate resilience after a winter storm, however, some children may react differently if they were injured in a car accident or experienced the loss of a loved one or pet and may need additional grief support to help them adjust.
Below are resources to support children, families, and communities recover after a severe winter storm.
Describes how young children, school-age children, and adolescents react to traumatic events and offers suggestions on how parents and caregivers can help and support them.
The national Disaster Distress Helpline (call or text 1-800-985-5990; for Spanish, press “2”) is dedicated to providing crisis counseling and support 24/7/365 for anyone in the U.S./territories experiencing emotional distress or other mental health concerns related to any natural or human-caused
Offers information for youth to help them understand the differences between grief and traumatic grief, the signs and symptoms of traumatic grief in children and youth, and what to do to feel better.
Aims to help survivors gain skills to manage distress and cope with post-disaster stress and adversity. This course utilizes skills-building components from mental health treatment that have been found helpful in a variety of post-trauma situations.
Offers activity ideas to parents and caregivers whose families are sheltering in place, social distancing, and homeschooling due to school closures amidst the COVID-19 outbreak.
Offers information on why mental health providers are important for grieving children. This fact sheet outlines how children grieve, what Childhood Traumatic Grief is, who develops Childhood Traumatic Grief, the signs a child might have Childhood Traumatic Grief, how Childhood Traumatic Grief imp
Provides information to parents and caregivers on Childhood Traumatic Grief.
Offers information on why pediatric providers are important for grieving children.
Offers information on why school personnel are important for grieving students. This fact sheet outlines how children grieve, what Childhood Traumatic Grief is, who develops Childhood Traumatic Grief, what traumatic stress reactions in Childhood Traumatic Grief can look like, the signs a student
Offers information on why school personnel are important for grieving students with a military background. This fact sheet outlines how students in military families differ from civilian students, how students grieve, what Childhood Traumatic Grief is, who develops Childhood Traumatic Grief, what
Provides information to the media on what to know about covering traumatic deaths for children and families.
Brings to life the story of Jeremy, a 10-year-old boy, following the tragic death of his father. This video walks you through Jeremy's story and describes his journey as he and his family get help and are able to enjoy happy memories together. This story is read by Liliana Montenegro.