Child Traumatic News Today

Before the Columbine High School shooting, schools prepared for fires and natural disasters. After the 1999 massacre, states enacted lockdown and active shooter drills.

As North Carolina's foster care system faces a perfect storm of challenges, Duke Psychiatry provides support to help foster children and their families thrive.

Highlights from The Hill, Coda Story, the Washington Post and others.

It’s an immediate crisis on loved ones’ lives, placing people living abroad in a constant emergency.

As California wildfires grow more intense, frequent, and widespread, many children who live through them are experiencing lasting psychological trauma such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — For nearly a week, families whose lives were upended by a Nashville elementary school shooting took turns sharing dark details to Tennessee lawmakers.

Throughout the corridors of many state Capitols, families are sharing emotionally gutting stories of tragedy caused by mass school shootings with the hope that revealing their trauma will convince lawmakers

Families are telling their stories of losses caused by mass school shootings in front of state legislatures nationwide.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For nearly a week, families whose lives were upended by a Nashville elementary school shooting took turns sharing dark details to Tenn

Throughout the corridors of many state Capitols, families are sharing emotionally gutting stories of tragedy caused by mass school shootings with the hope that revealing their trauma will convince lawmakers