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Officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Child and Family Center are offering tips on how to address school shootings with their children following the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday.
In the days following any school shooting, several questions are raised on how or if you should talk to your children about the issue.
Jennifer Henningfield a licensed Clinical Social worker with the Santa Clarita Valley Child and Family Center, is offering tips for parents struggling to know how to address school shootings with their school-aged children.
Talking With Elementary Age Children
She also suggests letting them guide the conversation by you asking basic questions, so you as a parent do not overwhelm them with information.
“What have you heard,” is a question that could be asked, Henningfield stated. “Are you concerned?” is another.
Although adults know that Texas may be far away, they also know school shootings could still happen locally, and it has happened in our Santa Clarita Valley with the 2019 Saugus High School shooting, Henningfield said.
If the child feels safe knowing that Texas is far away, and that makes them feel safe, that is okay, she said.
“We don’t want to break that bubble,” Henningfield said.
Dealing with Older Children
As kids grow up and have cellphones and computers, it is virtually impossible to hide something like a school shooting from them, she said.
“If your kid who is 15 or so wants to watch the news on a school shooting, let them,” Henningfield said. “But it’s important to not let them watch CNN or Fox News all day.”
For some older students, it may be more difficult for them to want to return to school the day after a shooting has been reported.
“If your child is visibly upset and showing a large amount of anxiety, then maybe allowing them to have a day off of school isn’t a bad thing,” Henningfield suggested.
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Response To The Shooting
In the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting, deputies with the SCV Sheriff’s Station are increasing patrols around schools for the rest of the year to make sure students’ safety is a priority.
Officials also encourage our community to report any suspicious activity to the Santa Clarita Sheriff’s Station at 661-260-4000 and School Administrators.
The William S. Hart Union High School District offers Student Care Helplines in addition to traditional reporting channels to alert school officials to suspicious or concerning behavior.
Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), or by visiting www.LACrimeStoppers.org.
Donations For Victims Of Uvalde Shooting
The First State Bank of Uvalde has opened up a donation account for the families of Robb Elementary.
People looking to donate to the Robb School Memorial Fund have three options.
They can go to any First State Bank directly, mail a check to the bank, which is located at 200 E. Nopal St. Uvalde, Texas 78801, or send a Zelle to robbschoolmemorialfund@gmail.com.
Mental Health Resources
Anyone seeking information about mental health resources available in the Santa Clarita Valley can look here for a list of resources. There are 24-hour phone numbers available. In the event of an emergency, 911 should always be the first call. Those looking to speak with someone can call:
- 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- 1-800-854-7771 for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
- 1-800-784-2433 for the Treatment Advocacy Center
- 661-259-9439 for the SCV Child & Family Center
- 661-288-4800 for the Santa Clarita Valley Mental Health Center
- 661- 765-8445 for Insight Treatment Santa Clarita
- 800-852-8336 for the Teen Line Peer Suicide Prevention 6-10 p.m. or text TEEN to 839863
- 1-866-488-7386 for the Trevor Project LGBTQ suicide helpline
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Ms. Henningfield, How would you suggest we address the right-wing trolls that inhabit this website?
Denny, by thanking them. Without them you would lose all the free support you receive.
Like Karl Marx, DummyNNW has never done an honest days work in his life. No calluses on his hands. He pushes tax papers and BLM propaganda.
I wish he took after Harpo Marx, and muted himself.
Says the man whose grandparents & parents received Medicare and Social Security, or perhaps he himself does now, how about that free and public education you likely received, (however from his rankings he’s obviously not the sharpest tool in the shed), or the ACA providing healthcare to tens of millions Americans who never had affordable healthcare before? Yes, the “evil, Socialist, anti-family, god hating Dems” are full of those bad ideas that you and yours have and will benefit from over a lifetime.. The hypocrisy is rich.
Alice = Taxes
DUMMYSSE = TAXES
PELOSI = TAXES.
Navin Gruesome, Hillary and Monica, Obama, Biden all = TAXES
Maybe if you would see the truth instead of engaging in leftist group think where you only see what you believe, and tried logic and reason instead of emotional nonsense, you won’t be called out so much. Just a thought! Try your own instead of someone else’s.
Teach the children there are demonic creatures in the world that are being protected by ACLU, Liberals & CCP that are degenerating our once decent, civilized, traditional values/lifestyles!
There are so many crooks in the Republican party, it is sickening. They think they know better than everyone else, even the experts. Our old president is daft, and has no decent morals. Others follow. There are politicians in the Democratic Party that don’t have our best interest in mind, either.
I, however, wouldn’t tell my child these negative opinions,however, any more than you should badmouth others in front of your young kids. I think we should keep it simple and say that “Most people are good people, and unfortunately some are not.” Let them keep their optimistic, fragile hearts as free of the garbage as we can. When they’re older, we can help them with their questions in more detail, always demonstrating a tactful manner if we can!