Concurrent Breakout Session 1A: Tending to Trauma: The Impact of Gun Violence on Children and Ourselves

(Social Work CE)

This session is designed to equip social workers with tools to respond to the trauma of gun violence at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Participants will learn the negative impact of the threat of gun violence in schools, discuss the value of proactive school safety measures, the importance of secure firearm storage through the Be SMART for Kids program, and receive salient, trauma-informed recommendations for learning tools and techniques for adults to respond to their own needs and the needs of a child if they are activated by an incident of gun violence.