Helpful Links

Anxiety & Mental Health

• 12 Tips to Reduce Your Child's Anxiety

• Anxiety & Depression Association of America

• Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services

• Fairfield Cares: Mental Health & Prevention Resources

  1. • Mental Health Resources For Teens

• National Alliance on Mental Illness

• National Institute of Mental Health

Child and Adolescent Mental Health & Social Media

• Child Mind Institute - Screen Time & Technology - Guide for Parents

• Let's Talk About Digital Wellness: Understanding Your Child's Emotions and Mental Health

• NAMI - Social Media and Mental Health

• Notes to My Middle School Self: A Common Sense Teen Conversation

• NPR - The truth about teens, social media and the mental health crisis

• Parenting in the Digital Age

• Parents' Ultimate Guide to YouTube Kids

• Teens and Mental Health: How Girls Really Feel About Social Media

More Links

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

• Kids in Crisis Helpline Flyer 

Mindfulness Resources

• What is Mindfulness? 

• Jimmy Fallon: Watch Jimmy practice mindfulness here

• Inner Health Studio: free relaxation scripts to work on coping skills related to stress management, anxiety, panic attacks, anger, pain relief, and insomnia. The website also has relaxing imagery available for download.

• Kelty Mental Health Resource Center: offers free mindfulness audio resources covering nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress, and ways of healthy living. Doctors from BC Children’s Hospital offer their expertise and have recorded many of their own meditations.

• Mindful Teachers: mindful activities and teaching resources

• Mindfulness For Teens: designed specifically for teens to learn more about mindfulness. It features diverse youth voices, useful guided meditations, and even a blog that highlights different ways teens are engaging in mindfulness.

• Relaxation Script For Teens: Click here 

• UCLA Health Website: free guided meditations that offer mindfulness meditation to both English and Spanish speakers. Examples include loving kindness meditations, body scans, and Spanish meditations for eating with more mindfulness.

• Mindfulness Daily is a free mobile app that allows the user to create a mindfulness practice that only takes a few minutes every day. A few minutes in the morning, a short pause during the day, and a reflection in the evening can really help its users turn inward and pay more attention to what gives them pause.

• Simply Yoga is a free mobile app that offers personal training for fast yoga workouts, poses, and exercises that can be done at home.