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A tremendous volume of information has been posted on the internet to help people cope with and respond to the events of September 11, 2001. We have gathered and briefly annotated many sites that may be helpful to people who are involved in asset building and community building with and for children and adolescents.Search Institute provides these links as a service. It does not endorse the content of the linked sites and is not responsible for the content on those sites. We urge you to judge the quality of these sites as you would other sites on the internet. If you have recommendations of sites to add to this list, corrections to be made, or concerns about any of the listed sites, please contact us.
Index of Topics
- General Information about September 11, 2001
- Coping with Trauma, Tragedy, and Grief
- Talking about the News and Terrorism
- Youth Voice and Action
- Volunteering and Giving
- Nurturing Understanding and Tolerance
- Resources for Educators
- Resources for Religious Leaders
General Information about September 11, 20019-11-2001.org
This comprehensive Web site about September 11, 2001, allows for sending donations and condolences, learning about victims, identifying resources, bulletin boards, links to related Web sites, and much more.U.S. Government Information and Resources
Produced by the federal government, this site catalogues relevant government Web sites on terrorism, anthrax, responding to victims, civil rights, travel, and related topics.
Coping with Trauma, Tragedy, and GriefAbout Our Kids
Developed by New York University's Child Study Center, this site offers resources to help parents, teachers, and mental health professionals explain war and terrorism to children, how to help them cope, and signs of trauma-related stress.American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
This site collects a wide range of helpful information on helping children and youth cope following a disaster, including fact sheets for families in both English and Spanish.American Counseling Association
ACA has provided a fact sheet on ways that parents can help children deal with trauma.American Psychological Association
This site explains common reactions to terrorism, trauma, and stress, and how adults can help themselves and their children.Child Trauma Academy
This site includes material for children, parents, and teachers related to loss and trauma. Particularly note the special comments for children and youth.Connect for Kids
This site include extensive information on coping with death and grief as well as anti-discrimination resources, lesson plans, and ideas for communities.Education Resources Information Center
This site provides resources for parents and educators to help students cope with and discuss the events on and following September 11. It includes links to teaching materials, other current events, and mental health resources.Family Education
This parenting site addresses a wide range of concerns, including how to help kids deal with tragedy, how to provide a sense of safety to how to keep children from becoming prejudiced or violent in the wake of these events.KidsHealth
This site on smallpox, anthrax, and terrorism includes clear, concise information for parents, children, and teenagers, including suggestions for how each group can deal with the terrorist attacks and how to help.Hospice Net
The reality of death is even more present in these times, particularly for those directly touched by the terrorist attacks and subsequent events. This Web site offers detailed information to help adults talk about death with children and adolescents and deal with issues of loss and grief. It includes age-specific guidelines.National Association for the Education of Young Children
This association Web site shares information on helping children cope with disaster, how to support other early childhood educators, and discussing the news with 3- to 7-year-olds.National Association of School Psychologists
This site offers guidance for coping with terrorist attacks, including information on promoting tolerance and peace in children, tips for parents in English, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Korean, Urdu and Vietnamese, and guidance on planning school memorials, ceremonies or memory activities following traumatic experiences.National Institute of Mental Health
Provides online information on post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety disorders and helping children and adolescents cope with violence and disasters.National Mental Health Association
This comprehensive site on "Mental Health in Troubled Times" includes suggestions for helping children cope, when to seek help, how to cope with loss, dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and related issues.National Mental Health and Education Center
This handout for parents describes common reactions to disasters by age group and suggests ways to help children and teenagers while also recognizing that adults are also struggling to make sense and feel in control.North Carolina State’s Cooperative Extension Services
This tip sheet offers age-specific strategies (early childhood through adolescence) for helping young people cope with stress and anxiety. It has general suggestions for parents and teachers, as well as programming ideas for various age groups and subjects.Zero to Three
A statement from this organization that focuses on very young children emphasizes the need to protect and reassure very young children.
Talking about the News and TerrorismAmerican Academy of Pediatrics
This news release that provides advice on how to communicate with children and adolescents in the aftermath of disasters as well as links to other information.Educators for Social Responsibility
This Web site include responses to a wide range of questions that parents, teachers, and other adults have about how to talk with young people about terrorism, war, prejudice, and related topics. It also addresses questions such as "Is it appropriate to tell children how I feel?" and "Won't it just scare children more if we talk about it?"Mr. Rogers
An essay of simple, practical advice for parents and others about dealing with young children's concerns about "scary news."National Institute on Media and the Family
This site provides clear, age-specific suggestions (early childhood through high school) for helping children cope with tragedy and talk about events in the media.Parent Center
This Web site for parents includes information on how to talk with kids (age 2 to 8) about terrorist attacks and suggestions for easing children's fears.Sesame Street Workshop
This site offers specific examples of what to say and do when children say they’re scared, from toddlers to elementary school age. Information is available in both English and Spanish.
Youth Voice and ActionHigh School for Heroes
Created by and for high school students, this organization is encouraging student to raise funds to help the victims of terrorism.News from the Trenches
This PBS Web site features "messages from youth," including youth responses to the September 11 tragedy as well as youth-created public service announcements on diversity and tolerance.What Kids Can Do
This unique Web site gives young people a voice in response to September 11. The Our America section of the site includes short essays by young people trying to make sense of the events as well as resources for sorting out and responding to the complex issues surrounding these world events.Youth Media Communications
This initiative of the Open Society Institute features youth voices on the events of September 11, links to youth media Web sites that feature youth voices on the tragedy, and other related resources.YouthNoise.com
Save the Children's teen-targeted Web site has created a way for teens to write online messages of support to fellow young people who lost family members. Young people can share their thoughts and feelings with other youth, find how to raise and donate funds, and learn how to volunteer in affected areas.
Volunteering and GivingAmerican Red Cross
In addition to information on donating blood and money in response to help victims of terrorist attacks as well as children in Afghanistan, this site includes extensive information about how people are responding to current events with acts of compassion and generosity. The collection of stories about the responses of children and youth is particularly compelling.City Cares
This site outlines specific ways people of all ages can respond to current world events, including addresses for where to send condolences.The Foundation Center/Philanthropy News Digest
This philanthropic organization has gathered an extensive collection of credible charitable organizations that are receiving funds in response to the terrorist attacks and the war in Afghanistan.Helping.org
This philanthropy site makes it easy to learn about and donate online to numerous charitable organizations. The site also includes tips and links for responding to the tragedies.ServeNet.org
Youth Service America's Web site offers extensive information on volunteer and service opportunities for youth and adults, including a search engine to find volunteer opportunities in communities by ZIP Codes.Resources on Tolerance and Discrimination
Nurturing Understanding and ToleranceUniversity of Minnesota Extension ServiceResources on Arab Americans
Titled "Restoring Hope in the Wake of Terrorism," this page offers thoughtful advice and links for parents and teachers on building tolerance, understanding Islam, and giving and receiving assistance.Institute for Global Communications
A compilation of resources, ideas, and contacts to end discrimination and backlash against Arab Americans and Muslims, and to promote more peaceful communities.Teaching Tolerance
This Web site and magazine from the Southern Poverty Law Center offers a broad collection of resources about tolerance, patriotism, the backlash against Arab Americans and Muslims, and more. "To Save a Nation and Its People" integrates poetry with classroom discussion about September 11th and its aftermath.American Arab Anti-Discrimination CommitteeResources for Understanding Afghanistan
In addition to regular updates for the Islamic community, this site includes extensive background information on Arab culture, history, stereotypes, and related topics. It also includes suggestions for helping Arab-American children cope with potential discrimination.100 Questions and Answers about Arab Americans
Prepared for journalists by the Detroit Free Press, this site has extensive, balance information about the history, lives, beliefs, and cultures of Arab Americans.Afghanistan for KidsResources for Understanding Islam
This Web site was created to help children get a sense of the culture and people of Afghanistan. It includes pictures, coloring pages, stories, recipes for Afghan food, and information on the nation's people and culture.Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
This advocacy site gives sometimes-graphic information about the plight of girls and women in Afghanistan.
(Also see links below, under resources for religious leaders)Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
This extensive Web site offers a wide range of information on Islam around the world, both past and present, including links to numerous Islamic Web sites.Middle East Institute
This site includes the full text of M. Cherif Bassiouin's Introduction to Islam, which presents the history, beliefs, and practices in this diverse world religion.
Resources for EducatorsEducation Development Center
"Beyond Blame: Reacting to the Terrorist Attack" is a downloadable, three-lesson curriculum for middle and high school students that explores justice and injustice in the current international situation.National Association of School Psychologists
This site offers guidance for schools for creating memorials, ceremonies, or memory activities following a traumatic experience.National Education Association
The site’s Crisis Communications Guide and Toolkit provides resources and tools for distribution to parents, school employees, and the media to help monitor the health needs of children during this difficult time and to help families and communities recognize and respond to post-traumatic stress.National PTA
Along with advice for parents on talking with children about tragedy and organizing community events in response to tragedy, the National PTA has posted information on talking with children about hatred, prejudice, and respecting differences, in both English and Spanish.National School Safety and Security Services Agency
This consulting firm specializing in school security and crisis preparedness has developed a list of suggestions for schools to consider in responding to September 11 and updating security plans.UCLA’s School Mental Health Project
This site includes extensive information for school-based responses to crisis as well as information on common responses that children often experience in the wake of overwhelming events.Choices Education Program
This program of the Watson Institute for International Studies has compiled extensive information for high school teachers on how to deal with the current situation in the classroom, including extensive information on policy options, international relations, discussion questions, links to foreign new sources, and more.Interfaith Resources
Resources for Religious LeadersBeliefNet.comChristian Resources
This religious "portal" site has gathered insights, resources, discussion groups, etc. regarding the attacks from many different faith perspectives.Families of Religions
This site seeks to provide brief, unbiased introductions to the world's religions, which may be particularly helpful for young people who are being exposed, perhaps for the first time, to religious traditions other than their own.National Council of Churches
This statement, "Diversity and Community: A Multi-Religious Statement on Social Responsibility in the Context of Ethnic, Cultural, Racial and Religious Diversity in the United States," has been developed and endorsed by leaders from many faith traditions.The Pluralism Project
This project of Harvard University documents the growing religious diversity of the United States and features stories of how people of many faiths are responding to the events of September 11.World Interfaith Congress
This international organization gathered and posted information from its member organizations about their responses to the events of September 11.Sojourners OnlineJewish Resources
SojoNet, the online presence of Sojourners magazine, has gathered a wide range of resources and statements from faith communities regarding the attack and responses of the faith community. It includes a document titled "Deny Them Their Victory: A Religious Response to Terrorism" that has been signed by religious leaders from many faiths.Youth Specialties
This site contains an extensive collection of articles, program ideas, discussion starters, and other resources for Christian youth groups.JewzNews.comMuslim Resources
This site describes itself as "the online center for crisis updates, sense-making, and comfort." It offers information for parents and curricula in response to the September 11 attacks.Union of American Hebrew Congregations
This site has compiled statements and educational resources for Reform Jewish congregations that seek to address the current world situation.American Muslim Council
This Web site includes frequent updates on Muslim responses to current world events.Council on American Islamic Relations
CAIR has been particularly active in responding to the September 11th tragedy, both condemning the attacks and highlighting the threats and violence that have been directed to Muslims in its aftermath. The site includes a guide for how mosques can host open houses for their communities as well as information and guidance for reporting harassment or attack.Return to top Return to 9-11 home page Suggest additional links or share feedback about listed sites.
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