Safety
Expert advice on how to handle difficult questions and conversations in the classroom
This is an article that provides “10 Ways to Talk to Students about Sensitive Issues in the News”.
This article gives educators five ways to help students in trauma.
The Be SMART campaign was launched to raise awareness that secure gun storage—storing guns locked, unloaded, and separate from ammunition—can save children’s lives. Be SMART emphasizes that it’s an adult responsibility to keep kids from accessing guns and that every adult can play a role in keeping kids and communities safer. There are thousands of Be SMART volunteers in your communities and neighborhoods that are delivering the Be SMART message across the country in all 50 states. Be SMART resources include tips for parents and adults in talking to youth about gun violence and gun violence prevention.
In getting the bipartisan Brady Law passed in 1993, Jim and Sarah Brady accomplished the inconceivable. But there’s more work to be done — and only when we work together will we solve this problem. In order to do that work, we must accept these three truths about America’s gun violence epidemic: 1) Gun ownership demands responsibility; 2) Those empowered to do so must uphold existing gun laws; and 3) Gun violence is a uniquely American problem that impacts all races and ethnicities in the country, but nonetheless exacts a particular toll on Black and Brown communities.
Campaign Zero believes we can live in a world where the police don’t kill people. The resources here show we can do this by limiting police interventions, improving community interactions, and ensuring accountability.
Youth violence is a serious problem that can have lasting harmful effects on victims and their families, friends, and communities. The goal for youth violence prevention is to stop youth violence from happening in the first place.
Preventing youth violence requires addressing factors at all levels of the social ecology—the individual, relational, community, and societal levels.
CDC’s technical package, A Comprehensive Technical Package for the Prevention of Youth Violence and Associated Risk Behaviors, highlights strategies based on the best available evidence to help states and communities prevent or reduce youth violence. The strategies are intended to work in combination and reinforce each other. Strategies and their corresponding approaches are listed in the table below.
“Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Tragic Events” is an article about some strategies for talking to teens about mass shootings, terrorism or unexpected attacks.
The Child & Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI)’s mission is to promote the early and lifelong health of children, youth, and families. Part of fulfilling this mission is to disseminate data, information, and ideas to understand and address social determinants of health, like adverse childhood experiences and the trauma and chronic and toxic stress that can result and impact lifelong health. A primary focus is on promoting the development of positive health, such as resilience, engagement in life, and the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships most essential to child development and well being.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network recently came out with a child trauma toolkit for educators.
The Children’s Safety Network works with state and jurisdiction Maternal & Child Health and Injury & Violence prevention programs to create an environment in which all children and youth are safe and healthy. Our goal is to equip states and jurisdictions to strengthen their capacity, utilize data and implement effective strategies to make major reductions in injury-related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits.
A national resource center for the prevention of childhood injuries and violence that provides expertise on a wide range of injury topics as well as state specific injury profiles.