• Caring for Kids: What Parents Need to Know about Sexual Abuse
  This consumer-focused resource kit, developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), contains information and fact sheets for parents, caregivers, and adolescents. The kit provides parents and caregivers with tools to help them support children who have been victims of sexual abuse, information on the importance of talking to children and youth about body safety, and guidance on how to respond when children disclose sexual abuse. Also included is advice on how to cope with the shock of intrafamilial abuse and with the emotional impact of legal involvement in sexual abuse cases. Caring for Kids provides adolescents with information about the prevalence of acquaintance rape and tips to help reduce their risk for abuse. It also offers guidance on what to do if they are a victim of acquaintance rape including disclosure, medical attention, and professional counseling. (April 2009)
  

• Tip Sheets in English and Spanish
  These tips sheets are from the Strengthening Families and Communities: 2009 Resource Guide, authored by the Child Welfare Information Gateway, Children’s Bureau, and FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention. The tip sheets are on the following topics: Bonding with Your Baby; Dealing with Temper Tantrums; Connecting with Your Teen; Teen Parents…You’re Not Alone!; Ten Ways to Be a Better Dad; and, Raising Your Grandchildren. On the Child Welfare Information Gateway website, you can access printable versions of individual tip sheets, all tips sheets, or the entire guide, or you can order the publication (free). The tip sheets are available in English and Spanish.
  

• Raising Resilient Children During Tough Economic Times
  This publication, available from the University of Hawaii at Manoa Center on the Family, presents an overview of what parents can do to create an environment that builds resilience in their children during times of economic stress or other hardships. It also presents strategies that parents can use at different stages of their children's development. (2009)
  

  
  

Websites

• “Time to Talk” and “Time to Act”
  Recent research shows that less than half of teens report that their parents discuss drugs other than alcohol or marijuana with them. Time to Talk is a website sponsored by the Partnership for Drug Free America, and provides information and multimedia tools to help parents and caregivers with the often difficult task of talking about alcohol and other drugs with their children. In addition, the Partnership, in collaboration with the Treatment Research Institute, recently launched a companion site, Time to Act, “a new, first-of-its-kind resource to help parents spot signs and symptoms, have productive conversations with their teens, and find outside help if they need it.” Both websites provide straightforward, science-based information and recommendations grounded in the belief that parents are an influential force in their children’s lives.
  Time to Talk: www.timetotalk.org 
  Time to Act: www.timetoact.drugfree.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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