OVC offers links to resources for working with victims
amidst the challenges presented by random shootings and other acts of violence.
Resources include:
OVC Handbook for Coping After Terrorism: A Guide to Healing and Recovery (September 2001)
This OVC handbook (NCJ 190249) provides victims of terrorism with information based on the expertise of mental health, crisis counseling, and victim assistance professionals. The handbook is intended to help these victims understand their reactions to an act of terrorism or mass violence. Also available in other languages.
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Recovering From Crime: Steps for the Physically Injured Victim (April 2006)
This brochure provides victims of violent crime with information about emotional responses to victimization, applying for crime victim compensation, and understanding crime victim’s rights. Also available in Spanish.
What You Can Do If You Are a Victim of Crime (November 2005)
This OVC brochure explains the rights of victims of crime and the compensation and assistance resources available to them and lists national organizations that help victims find information or obtain referrals. Also available in other languages.
American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Offers information as a public service, distributing fact sheets for parents
and caregivers and research and guidelines for psychiatric staff. The
Web site offers articles for helping children cope with trauma, stress,
and disasters. Information is also available in Spanish.
American Psychological Association (APA)
APA is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology
in the United States. Its Web site offers many services and resources,
including a Disaster Response Network, a Consumer Help Center, information
on post traumatic stress disorder, and Resources
on Coping with Traumatic Events.
Center
for Mental Health Services (CMHS)—Managing Anxiety in Times of Crisis
This resource by CMHS pulls together featured publications, resources,
and links for managing anxiety during times of crisis and uncertainty.
Also lists tips for talking, local resources, and the mental health services
locator.
Mental Health America
This nonprofit organization dedicates itself to addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness. It has created tip sheets and compiled links to Web sites that may help adults and children cope with anxiety. The local chapter serving Montgomery County, Maryland, also offers tips sheets and articles specific to the sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C.-metropolitan area.
Montgomery County Public
Schools—Emergency Information
This Web site offers various parent tip sheets and mental health resources
for coping with the stress and uncertainty of the crisis. Tips and strategies
are offered in various languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, and Vietnamese.
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