The National Center for School Safety has shared resources to support you and your teams during these difficult times:
- Tips for Disaster Responders: Understanding Compassion Fatigue
- Resilience Strategies for Educators: Techniques for Self-Care and Peer Support
- Federal Resources for Helping Youth Cope after a School Shooting
- Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Disasters and Other Traumatic Events: What Parents, Rescue Workers, and the Community Can Do
- Resources for Child Trauma-Informed Care
This month, we also have a new podcast series on What It Means to Be a School Leader and leading through crises. Episode 1 on Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Leadership is available now. Dr. Linda Henderson-Smith from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing has tips for proactively building resiliency and promoting healing for students, school staff, and community members.
We are including some additional resources to support your school violence prevention initiatives:
- Getting Buy-in for Anonymous Reporting Systems
- Essential Elements of School Threat Assessment
- Trauma Informed Practices Across School Settings
- Reducing Gun Violence: Extreme Risk Protection Orders
- Fact Sheet: Improving Access and Care for Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions
If you need immediate support, we encourage you to reach out to the Crisis Text Line or the Suicide Prevention Lifeline.