• An updated report highlighting findings and insights from an NJSBA study, What Makes Schools Safe? The report includes 15 additional recommendations on response and recovery, law enforcement in schools, cybersecurity, after-school security and more.
• The report of NJSBA’s Task Force on Mental Health Services in the Public Schools, Building a Foundation for Hope provides more than 70 recommendations, along with guidance and best practices.

Once I Was Very Very Scared – children’s book for young children.

Lockdown: Talking to Your Kids about School Violence.

American School Counselor Association: webinars, guidelines, tips, videos and additional resources.

Center For Resilience + Well-Being in Schools, University of Colorado Boulder

• Talking to Teens about Violence (En Español).
• Talking to Children: When Scary Things Happen (En Español).
• Tips for Talking to Students about Violence.

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress

• Grief Leadership: Leadership in the Wake of Tragedy
• Leadership Communication: Anticipating and Responding to Stressful Events
• Coping with Stress Following a Mass Shooting

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

• After the Injury — a website for families with injured children, which includes ways to help children recover.

Dylan’s Wings of Change, a nonprofit foundation named after a child who died in the Sandy Hook, Connecticut shooting that offers youth-led social-emotional learning programs for children and professional development for adults.

• How to talk to kids after 19 children, 2 adults killed in Texas school shooting, ABC News.
• Reflections from American’s litany of school shootings: What to say, what to do, Chalkbeat.

Sandy Hook Promise, The Learning Center

• Start with Hello, grades K-12, free activities and curriculum to teach students to be more socially inclusive and connected to each other to end social isolation.
• Say Something, grades 4-12, in four out of five school shootings, the attacker told people of their plans ahead of time. This program provides social-emotional learning curriculum, instruction and programming to build essential SEL competencies.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Disaster Distress Helpline – call or text 1-800-985-5990 (for Spanish, press “2”) to be connected to a trained counselor 24/7/365.

Traumatic Loss Coalitions for Youth, funded by the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, this organization offers coordinators who work within their counties to develop and/or Lead Response Team or support an existing one. Training is also offered, including suicide awareness training for educators and post-traumatic stress management for school crisis teams.

 The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: A handout that provides tips on how to respond and help students coping with tragedy.

• Melissa Brymer, director of Terrorism and Disaster Programs at UCLA-Duke Center for Child Traumatic Stress, mbrymer@mednet.ucla.edu.
• Good Grief, Princeton, N.J.
• National Alliance for Children’s Grief, Northfield, N.J.
• Psychology Today, listing of grief therapists in New Jersey.
• REDDjobb. Glenn Proctor, certified grief counselor, experience with PTSD, working with police crisis teams, combat veterans, suicide prevention, leadership training.

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network:

• Talking to Children about the Shooting.
• Helping Youth After a Community Trauma: Tips for Educators(En Español)

Coping After Mass Violence: for Adults.

• For Teens: Coping After Mass Violence(En Español).
• Helping School-Age Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers(En Español).
• Helping Teens with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers(En Españoll).
• Helping Young Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers(En Español).
• Guiding Adults in Talking to Children about Death and Attending Services.
• After a Crisis: Helping Young Children Heal.
• Age-Related Reactions to a Traumatic Event.
• Psychological First Aid(En Español), early intervention to support children, adolescents, adults and families impacted.
• PFA Mobile and the PFA Wallet Card(En Español) provide a quick reminder of the core actions.
• PFA online training course is also available on the NCTSN Learning
• Psychological First Aid for Schools – field operations guide.
• Providing PFA-S: For Health-Related Professionals – handout.
• Providing PFA-S: For Principals and Administrators– handout.
• Providing PFA-S: For School Support Staff – handout.
• Providing PFA-S: For Teachers– handout.
• Health Care Toolbox — website for pediatric health providers working with injured children.

Moms Demand Action, Community-led services for survivors of gun violence.

National Association of School Psychologists, Talking to Children About Violence: Tips for Parents and Teachers.

National Education Association, School Crisis Guide, a step-by-step outline of what to do before, during and after any school or community crisis.

The National Mass Violence and Victimization Resource Center

• Transcend NMVC from The Medical University of South Carolina (mobile app to assist with recovery after mass violence).
• Rebuild your Community: Resources for Community Leaders.
• Media Guidelines for Homicide Family Survivors.
• Timeline of Activities to Promote Mental Health Recovery.
• Self-Help: Resources for Survivors.
• E-learning Courses: Trainings for Clinicians.
• Resources for Victim Assistance Professionals.

National Alliance on Mental Illness, one-on-one helpline 10 a.m. – 10 p.m., Monday through Friday. (800) 950-NAMI (6264) or helpline@nami.org.

Navigating A Mental Health Crisis, a downloadable guide available in English and Spanish. The guide outlines what can contribute to a crisis, warning signs, strategies to de-escalate, etc.

National School Safety Center, handouts and information concerning schools and terrorism, schools and readiness.