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Helping
Children Understand Disaster
Hurricane Katrina and her aftermath are dominating the news at this
time. The following pieces may be helpful as professionals and families
try to help children understand the disaster and cope with the stress
that accompanies it.
(Source:Purdue Extension)
Terrorism and Children
Handling children's feelings when war in the news
(Source: Purdue Extension)
Talking
with Children
Steps for help children deal with losses and damages due to natural
disasters
(Source: Purdue Extension)
Helping
Children Cope with Disaster
Disaster may strike quickly and without warning. These events can
be frightening for adults, but they are traumatic for children if
they don't know what to do. The Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) and the American Red Cross have prepared this brochure to
help you help your children cope. Ultimately, you should decide
what's best for your children, but consider using these suggestions
as guidelines.
(Source: FEMA)
How to Help Children
After a Disaster
A Guidebook for Parents and Teachers
(Source: FEMA)
Children
and Disasters Issue Page
This page provides links to resources useful for the whole family
in addressing disaster preparedness, responding and recovering from
disasters, and reducing vulnerability to certain disasters. (Source:
EDEN)
Helping
Children Cope with Crisis: A Workbook for African American Families
Developed by the National Black Child Development Institute and
the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, in
collaboration with other organizations serving the African American
community ad focused on helping families face everyday hardships,
such as crime and poverty, and also enhance the strength and togetherness
that is necessary during times of major crisis.
(Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health)
Helping
Traumatized Children: A Brief Overview for Caregivers
This booklet is one in a series developed by the ChildTrauma Academy
to assist parents, caregivers, teachers and various professionals
working with maltreated and traumatized children. Also available:
Materials
for Caregivers
(Source: ChildTrauma Academy)
Children's
Reaction to Stress (PDF)
Early childhood professionals recognizing stress reactions and coping
behaviors in children
(Source: Iowa State University Extension)
Childhood
Stress--What Parents Can Do (PDF)
Advice and suggestions for parents dealing with disaster recovery
(Source: Iowa State University Extension)
Children's
Needs
Recognizing stress in children
(Source: PrepareRespondRecover.com)
A
Guide for Teachers
Provides information that describes what children might experience
during and after a disaster, how they might react to a disaster,
and what teachers can do to help students during the recovery period.
(Source: University of Illinois Extension)
Helping
Your Family Prepare Before a Disaster
Families that work together to prepare for the problem will cope
better than those who do not take precautions. Consider how your
children might react in a disaster, how you might react, and how
the crisis could affect each person’s emotional and physical
well-being. Plan in advance for how to deal with a crisis situation.
(Source: North Carolina Cooperative Extension)
Family Disaster Resources Coping
with Disaster
The emotional toll that disaster brings can sometimes be even more
devastating than the financial strains of damage and loss of home,
business, or personal property.
(Source: FEMA)
Family
Preparedness and Response
Land-grant university researchers and extension educators of the
Cooperative Extension System (CES) and CSREES are guiding families—especially
those with children—to research-based resources on the Web,
through classes and workshops, and through extension office resources
to assist them through this tragedy.
(Source: Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension
Service)
America At War:
Helping Families And Children Cope
This Web page provides camera-ready and audio resources in English
and Spanish for supporting and educating families and children in
coping with the constant evidences of war.
(Source: University of Kentucky Extension)
Strengthening
Families and Communities in Times of Crisis
Articles that may be of help to you and your family when dealing
with the issues of war.
(Source: University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension)
Restoring
Hope in the Wake of Terrorism
Offers resources to parents, teachers and other educators who work
with children, adolescents, families, and communities, as they react
to terrorism.
(Source: University of Minnesota Extension)
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