Please note: The resources and links below are great places to start, but they are not NSD endorsed. The resources are for your family to gain more resources in your tool belt based on our knowledge at the time of creating these links for our website. Feel free to ask the counseling team if you have any questions about the links below.
Positive Discipline by Jane Nelson(website link to parent main home page): Positive Discipline is a parenting program designed to teach young people to become responsible, respectful, and resourceful members of their communities. Based on the best-selling Positive Discipline parenting books by Dr. Jane Nelsen, the program teaches important social and life skills in a manner that is deeply respectful and encouraging for both children and adults. Parenting with Positive Discipline means being kind and firm at the same time, which is effective long-term and helps children feel a connection — a sense of belonging and significance.
PRICE $69: Positive Discipline website (link to parent main home page): On-Demand Parenting Class with Foundations of Skills Taught by the Spring of 2025 Speaker! https://www.positivediscipline.com/products/positive-discipline-online-parenting-class
Sproutable is the local company that teaches foundations from the Positive Discipline strategies and many other skills is a great other option. You can check out their website for more personal and specific ways to get parenting tips for your situation. Our spring of 2025 guest speaker Julietta Skoog was from Sproutable.
PRICE - FREE until June of 2026: Here is a link to get a copy of the recording from the live parent education talk in the spring of 2025 from our speaker Julietta Skoog from Sproutable, an experienced psychologist and counselor as well as mom for over 20 years. This valuable information is only available for a short period through June of 2026.
>>Here is the link to access the recording: https://www.besproutable.com/roadmap-opt-in/
If the link above has expired or you want more in-depth information about the topics she discussed, there are so many ways to do that below from Sproutable the classes below were mentioned at the end of her in-person talk as well!
PRICE $97 (use code THIRTYOFFSP for 30% off the video course - hopefully the link still works, if not you can contact them to see if there is a new discount code) from Sproutable: Online, self-paced. video course: https://www.besproutable.com/elementary/online-courses/
PRICE $299 single/$399 household for an interactive live class with Julietta Skoog from Sproutable:
6-week classes offered regularly (scroll down): https://www.besproutable.com/positive-discipline-classes/
Incredible Years Series of Classes (website link): The Incredible Years® evidence-based early intervention parenting programs focus on strengthening parenting competencies and fostering parent involvement in children’s school experiences, to promote children’s academic, social, and emotional skills and reduce conduct problems. The parent intervention programs are delivered to groups of parents/caregivers according to their child’s age group: babies (0-12 months), toddlers (1-3 years), preschoolers (3-6 years), and school age (6-12 years).
Love and Logic Parent Classes and Info. (website link).: Effective Parenting Solutions
Over the past 45 years we have developed and refined the most intuitive approach for effective parenting.
Respectful Parenting (website link): Janet Lansbury is an author, podcaster, and overall excellent resource for the most basic parenting questions and answers
Resources from Dr. Dan Siegel (website link) : Dr. Siegel is an author and psychologist who has written several books on parenting, discipline, and the neurology behind it. This list includes resources, materials, and references to his other works.
Parenting Resources through Seattle Children's Page (website link): Topics with hyperlinks below from the Seattle Children's Website are listed below:
The Escalation Cycle is a resource through Seattle Children's Hospital and helps us understand our emotions and behaviors when we get mad, sad, or upset. It helps us pick interventions and healthy coping skills to return to our baseline behaviors. This goes along with the Zones of Regulation materials perfectly.
The movies: Inside out and Inside out 2 are great for kids to understand this as well.
NSD Mental Health Referrals (link attached here): This is a list of public and private mental health service providers compiled by the Northshore School District:
Seattle Children's Referral Network (link attached here): This resource connects you to a referral specialist who finds a provider that matches your needs and accepts your insurance. They also check back with you to see if the provider was a good fit.
Care Solace (link attached here): Contact your counselor to utilize this free service in NSD. Care Solace will do the work of helping families find a good match for their child and a therapist in the community. This can save you time, if you'd like to utilize them. They will work to find a therapist in network with your insurance as well if you have insurance you want to use. This is free and is available for family and individual counseling. Click here for more info on a warm handoff from us. or click the title of this section to go to Care Solace website to learn more.
Other Community Resources listed below:
Center for Human Services Shoreline 206-362-7282
Chinese Information and Service Center Seattle 206-624-5633
Consejo Counseling & Referral Services Bellevue 425-679-0801
Crisis Connections (24hr Crisis Line) King County 866-427-4747
CrossPath Counseling Sammamish 425-369-1112
Friends of Youth Redmond 425-869-6490
Parent Trust for WA Children (Family Help Line) Seattle 800-932-4673
Together Center - Community Services Redmond 425-869-6699
Youth Eastside Services Bellevue, Kirkland and Redmond 425-747-4937
Link here to a list of many resources for many types of family needs in the community.
DBT: A resource for dietary mental health needs
Kindering: They offer social skills groups for kids and many other things
The King County Library System (KCLS) has made available free tutoring support to students via Tutor.com.
Learn more about this support by visiting The KCLS webpage about tutor.com.
Grief in Children : Seattle Children's hospital provides a resource on what grief looks like in young children
Helping Children Cope with Grief : The Child Mind Institute provides links that describe what to expect for children ages 4-7 and 7-13.
Tips for Caregivers : More ideas on helping children cope with grief
National Alliance for Children's Grief
Book List : Scholastic's recommendations on books to help kids understand grief and death