Parent Resources
BHMS Counseling Referrals
DEF's Lighten the Load Program
Decatur Education Foundation, our community partner, can help you and your family address food insecurity during a difficult time. Contact your child's school counselor or our BHMS Student Center for more information or to request assistance.
Need Tutoring Support for Your Student?
Our partners at the Decatur Education Foundation are once again offering their FREE Virtual Pals Tutoring Program to students in Grades 2-8.
News You Can Use:
In Search of a Therapist for Your Student?
Check out THIS resource from the Decatur Student Center to find out more about important questions to ask a potential therapist.
Our partners at Pathways Transition Programs also suggest following these steps when looking for mental health support for your child or family.
Tips for Choosing & Using a Student Planner
This article from ADDitude Magazine details how to set up and use a student planner and what parents can do to support their students at home with staying caught up, prepared, and organized at school. ALL students, not just those with ADHD, can benefit from this information!
From the Child Mind Institute:
Resources to Help Your Child Thrive
Is your child struggling with emotional and/or learning challenges? Not sure if your child needs more support at school? Check out THESE resources from the Child Mind Institute and understand more about how to work effectively with your child's school team to determine how to address your concerns.
Bullying Information & Resources
As Parents, How Can We Support our children?
As parents, we often struggle with how to protect our children from the challenges of our complicated world. Unfortunately, we are not always taught how to address or recognize bullying in our children. To help address this barrier, Unicef has created a "How to Talk to Your Children About Bullying" resource for tips on how to start this very important conversation with your children.
Introducing bark for Schools
CSD Announces a new measure to help ensure student safety
Digital safety is critically important to CSD, which is why we are adding Bark for Schools to our collection of online safety measures. Bark joins other measures, such as our content filter and staff monitoring of students’ classroom computer activity, to provide an additional layer of protection for our students.
Bark monitors student use of key student collaboration and communication tools for potential issues around cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, sexual predation, threats of violence, and more. When possible dangers arise within school-issued accounts, Bark for Schools alerts school teams, typically administrators and counselors, so they can address the situation in a timely manner. These alerts also give us insights that help us promote the well-being of the entire student body.
Bark was successfully piloted this spring at Talley Street Upper Elementary, and it will be fully implemented in grades 3-12 beginning September 6. You can learn more about Bark for Schools — including their commitment to student privacy. Beyond their own privacy commitment, Bark agreed to meet CSD’s stringent requirements around student data privacy and security.
ADDitude is one of our favorite FREE resources for supporting you and your student with ADD/ADHD--and quite frankly, all students!
Check out some of our favorite ADDitude Magazine resources:
Parents: How Can We Help Our Children Deal with Stress?
In CRISIS?
There is Always Someone to Help!
**Call 9-8-8: Suicide and Crisis LifeLine**
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States.
When you call, text, or chat 988, you will be connected to trained counselors that are part of the existing Lifeline network. These trained counselors will listen, understand how your problems are affecting you, provide support, and connect you to resources if necessary.
Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor
How it works: Text from anywhere in the US, anytime. This text line is for ANY crisis. A live, trained crisis counselor will receive your text and will
Call the Georgia Crisis & Access Line at 1-800-715-4225 or Download the MYGCAL app to text or chat with a caring professional.
How it works: Text from anywhere in the US, anytime. This text line is for ANY crisis. A live, trained crisis counselor will receive your text and will respond within seconds.
The Trevor Project providesThe Trevor Project:
Provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ+ students and young people.
How it works: Call the Trevor line at 1-866-488-7386, access TrevorChat via www.trevorproject.org, or access TrevorChat by texting START to 678-678 to connect with a counselor 24/7.