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