What causes child traumatic stress? How does it affect a child? What can be done about it?
It's not always easy to know what type of support children and adolescents need, or how to offer it, but there is help available.
Care of our nation's military children helps sustain our fighting force. Gathered here are resources about military families for caregivers, service providers, and children.
What are the effects of trauma on schools and learning? What can teachers, principals, and other school personnel do to help? How can they respond to a crisis?
Access NCTSN resources and experts, receive NCTSN press releases, and find tips for covering traumatic events.
Find products developed by the NCTSN.
Resources to help families and professionals be ready for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters.
Resources to help families and professionals be ready for, respond to, and recover from acts of terror.
Resources on NCTSN training and jobs and participation in the Network.
 
 

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  • Tips for parents and teachers to aid children’s recovery

  • Additional tools and links

  • Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide, 2nd Edition

  • Hurricane Assessment and Referral Tool for Children and Adolescents

  • Military Families – Resources and Links

  • Federal Grant Announcements: August 2008 (PDF)

  • CTGWeb - A web-based course for using TF-CBT with childhod traumatic grief

  • UPDATED! NCTSN Empirically-Supported Interventions – General and Culture-Specific Information

  • impACT - Summer 2008 NCTSN Newsletter (PDF)

  • Service Systems Brief: Judges and Child Trauma (PDF)

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    Virtual index to materials on child trauma, featuring NCTSN products
    Live and on-demand access to webcasts by NCTSN expert speakers
     
    Reviews of tools measuring children's experiences of trauma; other mental health & trauma-related issues
  • 13th International Conference on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma September 12 - 17, 2008

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