Many resources are available to help us as family members, community leaders and social service providers to help cope with violent and traumatic events.
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration operates the Disaster Distress Helpline, our nation’s first hotline dedicated to providing disaster crisis counseling. This toll-free helpline—1-800-985-5990--operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is free, confidential and multilingual. You can also contact the Helpline via SMS (Text ’TalkWithUs’ to 66746).
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The National Child Trauma Stress Network created a resource page in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.
- The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) has resources about the following topics:
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The National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH) also has useful information about children and violence.
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And PBS has a strong resource on having difficult conversations with kids
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View President Obama's remarks at the Sandy Hook interfaith prayer vigil .
“This job of keeping our children safe, and teaching them well, is something we can only do together, with the help of friends and neighbors, the help of a community, and the help of a nation. And in that way, we come to realize that we bear a responsibility for every child because we’re counting on everybody else to help look after ours’; that we’re all parents; that they’re all our children.”
- President Barack Obama
- President Barack Obama