Available Resources for Difficult Times

We understand that having big conversations with your children, your students, or even with your peers can be tough sometimes. Public media has excellent free resources and toolkits available to help navigate these difficult discussions and to help create dialogue with your family and community in a healthy and age-appropriate way. 

Below are a few links that can help create discussion points and to craft your conversation to help yourself and your loved ones cope with grief and anxiety that comes with tragic events. 

• Helping Kids Navigate Scary News Stories
• 15 Tips for Talking With Children About Gun Violence (and additional resources) from WETA’s Colorín Colorado
• Difficult Times & Tough Talks Collection from Sesame Street in Communities on PBS LearningMedia
• Lesson Plan: How to Talk as a Classroom About Gun Violence from PBS NewsHour Classroom
• Daily Lesson - Buffalo Shooting: How We Can Respond to White Nationalist Violence from PBS NewsHour Classroom