The National Mental Health Association (NMHA) has prepared a linked tip sheet to support parents and educators in dealing with questions and fears from their children regarding war.

http://www.nmha.org/reassurance/childrenDealwithWar.cfm

The National Center for Children Exposed to Violence at the Yale Child Study Center has prepared the following documents:

Teachers' Guide to Talking with Their Students about War

http://www.nccev.org/docs/children_warT.pdf

These guidelines address teachers' questions and concerns arising from the recent onset of war. They offer teachers assistance in the following areas:

1) How to identify and address signs of adjustment difficulties in your students

2) How to facilitate conversations about the war in classrooms with your students.

Parents' Guide to Talking with Their Children about War

http://www.nccev.org/docs/children_war.pdf

Parents' Guide for Talking to their Children about War (Spanish Translation) http://www.nccev.org/docs/guia_padres_guerra.pdf

With increasing news about war and talk about the threats of terrorism, children, their parents, and caregivers may feel uncertain and robbed of a basic sense of safety and security. We all share concerns about the horrors and dangers of war and terrorism. However, as adults and parents, it is our job to help our children and each other cope as best as we can with concerns that will confront us as individuals, families, communities, and as a nation. Your calm ability to listen to your children's concerns is one of the most powerful ways of helping them to learn, understand, and feel safe and secure in the most important part of their world---their families.

Connect for Kids has assembled resources for parents, educators and others to help children cope as they hear about war in Iraq and the possibility of a terrorist threat at home.