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Child Sex Trafficking: A Fact Sheet for Medical Professionals
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers information regarding child sex trafficking to medical professionals.
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Families and Caregivers
Parents and caregivers play an essential role in helping children and teenagers recover from traumatic events. These resources are for parents, adoptive parents, resource/foster parents, grandparents, caregivers, and all others who care for children and teens. The more caregivers learn about how traumatic events affect their children (whether toddler, school-age, teen, youth, or adult), the more they understand the reasons for their children’s behaviors and emotions, and the better prepared they are to help them cope. When children know that caring adults are working to keep them safe and support them in understanding their reactions to trauma, most can recover and go on to live healthy and productive lives.
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Helping School-Age Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers (in Arabic)
Type: Fact Sheet
Describes how school-age children may feel when struggling with the death of someone close and offers tips on what caregivers can do to help. Translated in 2023.
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Helping School-Age Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers (in Hebrew)
Type: Fact Sheet
Describes how school-age children may feel when struggling with the death of someone close and offers tips on what caregivers can do to help. Translated in 2023.
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Helping Teens with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers (in Arabic)
Type: Fact Sheet
Describes how teens may feel when struggling with the death of someone close and offers tips on what caregivers can do to help. Translated in 2023.
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Helping Young Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers (in Arabic)
Type: Fact Sheet
Outlines the feelings of young children struggling with the death of someone meaningful and offers suggestions on what caregivers can do to help. Translated in 2023.
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Helping Young Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers (in Hebrew)
Type: Fact Sheet
Outlines the feelings of young children struggling with the death of someone meaningful and offers suggestions on what caregivers can do to help. Translated in 2023.
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Talking to Children about War
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers information for caregivers on how to talk to children about war. This fact sheet includes the potential impact and considerations when talking to children about war, how to start the conversation, understanding media coverage, and how to foster resilience. Updated 2023.
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Choosing Trauma-Informed Care for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A...
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides information for caregivers on choosing trauma-informed care for children with IDD.
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Trauma and Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Taking Care of Yourself and...
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers guidance on the importance of taking care of oneself while parenting children with IDD.
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Understanding Trauma Responses in Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and...
Type: Fact Sheet
Outlines what responses to trauma could look like in children with IDD.
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The Power of Parenting: Helping Your Child After a Family Homicide Loss
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers parents and caregivers information to help support their children after the loss of a family member due to homicide.
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Talking to Youth about Anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander Hate
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides an understanding of why it is important to talk to children about race-based hate, 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.