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After a Disaster: Tips for Youth

After a disaster, you may feel afraid, frustrated, irritated, or angry. No matter how you feel, never take these feelings out on others by hitting, shoving, or pushing someone, or using a weapon. Instead, try some of these tips to help control your anger or sadness and maintain a sense of self-control.

What can I do?

  • Respect others and value differences.
  • Talk out issues. Talk things out instead of bullying, teasing, or talking about others.
  • Seek help. If you feel stressed or depressed, reach out to a friend, a family member, or another trusted adult.
  • Keep yourself safe. Let friends and family know where you are and whom you are with.
  • Get involved in the cleanup effort.
  • Avoid drugs and alcohol. Stay away from alcohol and drugs as well as people who use them.
  • Learn other ways instead of fighting to resolve arguments. Talk through arguments without yelling, hitting, or pushing.

What You Should Not Do

  • Bully, tease, or yell at others.
  • Punch, hit, or shove other people.
  • Carry weapons. Carrying a weapon increases the chances that you will be seriously harmed or that you may harm others.

How can I get help?

Contact Teenline (Girls and Boys Town National Hotline):
800-852-8336
Text TEEN to 839863
Website: Link opens in a new windowhttps://teenlineonline.org/yyp/girls-boys-town-national-hotline

Call Your Life, Your Voice (from Boys Town):
800-448-3000
Text VOICE to 20121
Download the App: Link opens in a new windowhttps://www.yourlifeyourvoice.org/Pages/mobile-app.aspx
Website: Link opens in a new windowhttps://www.yourlifeyourvoice.org/Pages/home.aspx

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (n.d.). After the storm: Tips for youth. Retrieved December 8, 2022, from https://www.cdc.gov

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