1.
Healthychildren.org
“Powered by pediatricians. Trusted by
parents. From the American Academy of Pediatrics.” This website offers a lot of information
about healthy living, health issues, and different stages children may go
through. This can be extremely helpful
regarding crisis because experiencing a health issue can lead to crisis within
a family, and this gives support and good information for parents. This
subsection regarding Family Life discusses families in crisis further: http://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/family-dynamics/pages/Family-in-Crisis.aspx Here is a link to a resource guide that is
also extremely useful: http://www.childcrisis.org/downloads/frc/resourcelist.pdf
2.
Child Crisis Center
“Strong families. Safe Kids.” This website discusses different aspects of
children in crisis, including how to volunteer, statistics, information,
programs, and events. It is based in
Arizona so events and programs may only be relevant to those in the Arizona
area, but still provides good information.
Some specific information regarding helping military families can be
found here: http://www.childcrisis.org/operation-family-support/
3.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Provided by the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, this is a resource for those in helping professions to
gather resources and information to protect children and strengthen
families. Information from how to report
abuse to resources for personal situations are provided. This is a great resource everyone should be
aware of to be informed about how to protect children and prevent abuse. This website also provides a lot of
information regarding adoption and foster care.
4.
Child Care Aware of America
This specific section of the Child Care
Aware of America website provides great resources for those affected by crises
and disasters. Resources can be utilized
by caregivers or it can be utilized by counselors and other helping
professionals to use and provide to caregivers.
There are great PDFs to save and share.
5.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
This website discusses all different types
of trauma, from domestic violence to terrorism, and goes into each trauma
individually and uniquely. It answers
common problems or questions about each individual trauma and provides
references and resources for each as well.
This website has amazing resources for counselor helping with children
and families dealing with trauma, and I highly recommend it. I frequently turn to this website for
information or resources. If I could give
it 6 stars I would.
6.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHS)
This website (specifically this specific
part of it) has different resources for students, parents, teachers, other
caregivers, responders, and health professionals regarding trauma. I stumbled upon this website but can already
see that there are some amazing resources I can use with my clients. I like this website because it provides great
tools for anyone affected by trauma.
7.
Save the Children.
This organization advocates for children
all around the U.S. and the world. This
website accepts donations to help children who may have been involved in a
disaster or who are affected by trauma. This
website is more useful for those who want to get involved in child welfare and
make a difference.
8.
NASP Resources
“Helping children achieve their best. In
school. At home. In life.” This part of
this website provides information specifically about helping children with
special needs who are in crisis. It
discusses how children with disabilities have particular triggers and cues, and
breaks it down for special populations.
If you have a child with a disability or are working with children with
disabilities these may be helpful resources.
You don’t see this type of information often so it is useful.
9.
The National Council on Family Relations
The NCFR has specific resources on how to
talk to children about tragedies. A
crisis within families can many times be not telling the children information
or fearing how they are going to react.
While the website doesn’t necessarily provide unique information, it
does provide where to find all of the resources you could possibly need to talk
to children about tragedies.
10.
American Psychological Association: Protecting
Children From Abuse
The APA has this specific website that has
all types of information on helping children going through abuse and
prevention. Additionally, on the right
hand side are related links, such as what parents should know about child sexual
abuse, resilience guides, effects of poverty, and children’s healthy
development. APA is very reliable and
provides great information.
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