Downloadable Resources
Here are a few useful articles and resources to download and read. You may want to check out the originating website for more information.
- Trauma and Stress
Understanding Your Response to Trauma from www.anxietyandstress.com
Common Responses to trauma and coping strategies from http://www.trauma-pages.com/s/t-facts.php
- Understanding and helping children through loss and grief
How to Help – Children’s response to grief and how adults can help from www.childgrief.org
Funeral Participation – should children be present? from www.childgrief.org
Words that Help and Hurt - for helping children with grief and loss from www.childgrief.org
Informing Children of a Death from www.childgrief.org
- Understanding Grief and Loss
10 Things to Know About Grief from www.victoriahospice.org
Grief WEBSITES for Youth from www.bfo-ottawa.org
- Suicide Loss
Grief after suicide from www.victoriahospice.org
- Resources for victims of crime
Infomation sheet on writing a victim impact statement from http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/victimservices/
Your Rights If You Are a Victim of a Crime from http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/victimservices/
- Resources for dealing with domestic violence
Help, Hope and Healing: Am I Safe?
Help Starts Here: Domestic Violence
Protection Orders – Information Sheet
Men Abused by Their Partners - information sheet
- Resources for helping children deal with traumatic events
Age-Related Reactions to a Traumatic Event - from National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Tips for parents of pre-school children - from National Child Traumatic Stress Network