Your Child and Gangs: What You Need to Know about Trauma - Tips for Parents

• Author(s): The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
• Date Published: 2008
• Length: 4 pages
• Publication Series: About Gangs, Prevention and Intervention, Victims and Witnesses, Youth
• Publication Type: Publication

Description

This fact sheet offers brief vignettes about teens who have become involved with local gangs, and provides parents and caregivers with information on gangs and trauma. It highlights what traumatic stress is, why gangs appeal to traumatized youth, and what parents can do to help their children.