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Talking to Children About Violence

As an association dedicated to helping children and families, our thoughts and prayers are with the children, families, and communities impacted by violence around the globe and here at home.

In hopes of helping children and families deal with violence, we’ve compiled the following resources:

• News and Children
• Grief and Children
• Disaster: Helping Children Cope
• Firearms and Children
• Children and Guns
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network – Talking about the Shooting

New Resource Center and Facts for Families

Check out AACAP's latest resources on suicide, including our new Suicide Resource Center and our Facts for Families on Suicide in Children and Teens.

New Policy Statement

Check out AACAP's latest Policy Statements, including an updated Policy Statement on Marijuana Legalization and a new Policy Statement on Psychologists Prescribing.

Be CAPtivated - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as a Career