Children and families often feel the lasting impact of a bushfire in the days, weeks, months and years that follow. Children and families need extra support and understanding to get through this tough time. The Trauma and Grief Network: Supporting Families website provides parents, carers and the community with information and resources to support children.
Disasters
Relevant and reliable information to support young people and their families prepare for, cope with, and recover from disasters.
Grief and loss
A range of resources for service providers to help with the grief children and adolescents experience at different ages and stages.
Schools & trauma
Guides, toolkits, and classroom activities to support schools and educators who work with children experiencing grief, loss and trauma.
Supporting families
A range of resources to explore how you can support families through these challenging times.
Abuse, neglect & violence
A range of resources to inform professionals, working with children and young people, of the impact of abuse, neglect and violence.
Resilience and recovery
A range of resources that explore the area of resilience and look at what helps children to be resilient at times of adversity.
25 May 2022
Talking to children about school shootings
How do we help our children understand the inexplicable? With honesty, matched to the child’s age, stage and personality and with a message of hope and ideas of what can be done to help.
9 Mar 2022
Working with those affected by disaster: advice for Psychologists
With bushfires, floods, droughts, storms and pandemic, we have had to draw upon deep reserves to navigate tough times.
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