MILWAUKEE — In the wake of the latest school shooting in Wisconsin, experts say parents need to make time to have what can often be difficult conversations with their kids, both about the violence which played out in Madison and their children’s own mental health.

“I like to start with what parents might see happening with their kids,” said Linda Hall, the director of the Wisconsin Office of Children’s Mental Health. “First of all, they might be visibly sad, they might just be withdrawn and younger children especially might get especially clingy and want to be close to mom and dad all the time.”

As difficult as these conversations can be, Hall said there are a lot of resources available to help.

“We have a whole fact sheet on feeling safe at school — psychologically and physically safe at school,” Hall said. “We recommend a number of things, like making sure your school is addressing school belonging, think about safe storage of firearms, and then in terms of safety drills at school — are those being done in a way that don’t aggravate that anxiety that we were talking about?”

Watch the full interview above.