COPEKIT ® Crisis Kit featuring COPECARD®
COPEKIT® CRISIS KIT contains trauma informed coping skills and tools providing psychological first aid for children during or after stress/trauma events. Crisis settings can be chaotic, unpredictable, and dangerous environments with limited behavioral health resources available for children. Facilitating active coping during and/or after a stress or trauma event can establish children on a healthy coping trajectory, reducing the risk of maladaptive behavior. The coping tools can be utilized both independently and when paired with select COPECARD®. Visit How It Works for the science behind the coping skills and tips on how to use the cards. The Crisis Kit Data Sheet is available as a PDF, along with other datasheets.
I am a law enforcement officer with 25+ years of service. The calls involving children can be heart breaking, for the child as well as for the responding officers. I often wish I could do more for juvenile victims. COPEKIT gives first responders the opportunity to provide immediate support for a child in need. The skills are simple, the cards are practical and portable. COPEKIT is the answer to “What can I, as a first responder, do for a traumatized child right now?” - C.T., Current Law Enforcement Officer, Former Police Academy Director
“It is so cool. It makes me feel a lot better. It takes away my anger and my sadness. I feel enough calmed down to talk with someone about it (my sadness).” Miriam, Age 9
Clear Bag with 6 inch handles
8” x 6” x 3” clear plastic bag with 6 inch handles and pocket on back. Meets all legal requirements for Clear Bag Policies. Transparency gives visual access to contents, lowering a child’s hypervigilance in receiving the kit. Transparency also promotes child’s engagement with contents, improving efficacy. Plastic material is splash proof and easy to clean. Zipper closure. The bag is compact, easy for providers to deploy and easy for a child to carry.
Contents: COPECARD® 20, Teddy Bear, Fidget Toy, Crayons, Paper & Tissue
The kit is a self-contained coping resource with no additional supplies needed. The “coping tools” - teddy bear, toy, crayons and paper - are paired with COPECARD® 20 coping skills. This coping tool and skill integration raises the “healthy coping impact” for a child in crisis settings and facilitates ease of deployment.
Teddy Bear
Stuffed Animal -Teddy Bear: Non-domestic animal (to protect children who have lost a pet). Provides comfort, promotes self-soothing, empowers child as caregiver, shifts attention away from stressor(s), promotes engagement with care providers through projection. Paired with:
COPECARD® 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding & Look Around: facilitates grounding through projection
COPECARD® I am feeling: facilitates feeling identification through projection
COPECARD® Sit & Move: teddy bear acts as a muscle relaxation “buddy”
COPECARD® Body Signs of Stress: facilitates body awareness through projection
Fidget Toy
Fidget Toy - provides stress relief, occupation, distraction and promotes hand movement
Paired with:
COPECARD® Move Your Hands: reinforces the affect regulation value of moving one’s hands
Crayons & 4 x 6 Pad of Paper with chipboard backing
Paper / Crayons – promoting self-expression through art and writing. Chipboard backing provides a firm writing surface enabling a child to draw/write while holding the paper in their lap, helpful for limited space settings. Paired with:
COPECARD® Move to Cope: for skills such as trace your hand, make a list, playing tic-tac-toe
COPECARD® Draw to Cope & Draw Your Name: facilitating self-expression through prompts for drawing, telling one’s story in pictures and words, and identity validation with drawing one’s name
COPECARD® Mini Bag or Cup: paper folding for occupation, building self-efficacy, engagement
COPECARD™ Pocket
COPECARD® Pocket on back side of bag to carry COPECARD® cards for easy access. The kit is designed to offer coping support both short term (in the crisis setting) as well as long term. The pocket is an easy place for a child to store their favorite COPECARD®cards as they use them in post-crisis/trauma recovery.