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Helping Students After a School Shooting
- Try and keep routines as normal as possible. Kids gain security from the predictability of routine, including attending school.
- Limit exposure to television and the news.

- Be honest with kids and share with them as much information as they are developmentally able to handle.
- Listen to kids’ fears and concerns.
- Reassure kids that the world is a good place to be, but that there are people who do bad things.
- Families and adults need to first deal with and assess their own responses to crisis and stress.
- Rebuild and reaffirm attachments and relationships.
Ï㽶ÊÓƵResources
- Position Statement: The School Counselor and Prevention of School-Related Gun Violence
- Position Statement: Safe Schools and Crisis Response
- Webinar:
- Webinar:
- Webinar:
- ASCA U: Trauma and Crisis Specialist
- Magazine article: More Than Just Response
- Magazine article: Armed Assailant Drills
- Magazine article: Resilience in the Aftermath
- Magazine article: Lessons From a School Shooting
- Journal article:
- Journal article:
Documents and Publications
National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement
National Education Association:
National Association of School Psychologists:
National Association of School Boards of Education:
Kid Peace:
Additional Resources
American Psychological Association
Coalition to Support Grieving Students (videos)
Department of Education
National Association of School Psychologists:
National Center for PTSD
The Child Mind Institute
PBS Kids
SAMHSA
Save the Children
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: