Resources for use by schools
This section of the Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network (ACATLGN) website contains links to documents and weblinks that we believe will be useful to practitioners and other professionals working in the school context. While we have endeavoured to refer you to resources that have reliable and credible content, we are unable to endorse the content of all of the sites that we are linked to.
We regularly add to, review and maintain this information. However, weblinks can become quickly out-of-date. Please let us know if any of the resources information is incorrect, or if links don't work. The ACATLGN resource database is constantly being updated, with new resources being entered all the time. Be sure to check back regularly to see what has been added.
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Australian resources for schools
Loss and Grief
MindMatters
This booklet provides an overview of school practices relevant to dealing with death and loss within the school, including a sequence of lessons for junior, middle and senior secondary school students.
Mental Health Promotion and Illness Prevention in School Settings
Auseinet
Provides information concerning mental health promotion within school settings with the aim of increasing understanding of the relevance of promotion and prevention strategies within schools.
Calmer Classrooms: A guide to working with traumatised children
Child Safety Commissioner, Victoria
Assists professionals within schools in understanding and working with children and young people whose lives have been affected by trauma, primarily through abuse and neglect.
After the Emergency
Australian Red Cross
An activity booklet for primary school children to help them think about what has happened during an emergency and to become aware of any feelings they may have. Also includes the Get Ready! booklet - helping children to prepare for an emergency.
International resources for schools
Schools Information Pack
Winstons Wish, UK
A package of information that can be accessed quickly by teachers. Includes advice on how to talk to a student about bereavement as well as some information on behaviours that may be seen in a bereaved child.
Positive Responses to Death. A strategy for schools: A policy and procedures aid for a death in the school community
Winstons Wish, UK
This document is intended as an aid in the writing of a policy and procedures document for schools. It may be useful to assist in disaster preparedness within schools.
Trauma Information Pamphlet for Teachers
University of California, Los Angeles
Information brochure released by the Trauma Psychiatry Program in 2001. Provides an explanation of trauma and traumatic loss and the role that teachers can take in assisting students who are experiencing this.
Resources for helping children cope with trauma and death
Child Study Center, New York University, US
A list of resources to provide information to parents, educators and mental health and medical practitioners to help children cope with terrorism, war and death.
Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators
National Child Traumatic Stress Network, US
Tools and materials developed to help educators understand and respond to the specific needs of traumatised children.
Children and Loss
The Child Trauma Academy, US.
An article specifically for teachers on their role in assisting the grieving child in the classroom.
Crisis management in schools: evidence-based prevention
Wilson MacNeil and Keith Topping - University of Dundee, Scotland
A paper examining the basis for developing a good evidence base for crisis management planning in schools.
Responding to crisis at a school
School Mental Health Project, University of California Los Angeles, US
A detailed resource aid that provides guides and handouts for crisis planning, training staff and school-based crisis teams. Contains handouts for staff, students and parents.
Crisis assistance and prevention: reducing barriers to learning
School Mental Health Project, University of California, Los Angeles, US
A training tutorial that provides readings and related activities on reducing the impact of crises on student learning through effective response and prevention strategies.
School based crisis intervention
School Mental Health Project, University of California, Los Angeles, US
A quick training aid that provides a brief overview and fact sheets on crisis interventions in schools. Includes several tools and outlines.
Wise Before the Event: Coping with crises in schools
William Yule and Anne Gold - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
This book describes some of the ways that crises can affect schools and suggests how schools can help to lessen the physical and emotional effects of disasters. Many of the strategies suggested can be built into the school curriculum.
Children, Stress and Natural Disasters
University of Illinois, US
A set of resources for teachers and other child care or youth workers that helps prepare them for working with children who have been through a disaster. Includes a guide for teachers and school activities for teachers.
Caring for Kids after Trauma, Disaster and Death: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Child Study Center, New York University
A crisis manual developed for parents and professionals who want to help children cope with traumatic events.
Helping traumatised children learn: Supportive school environments for children traumatised by family members
Massachusetts Advocates for Children
A guide to the impact of trauma on learning, classroom behaviour and relationships of traumatised children and practical strategies for use by teachers and schools.
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