Resources

Mentors:

• • Willingness to be a mentor

  • Willingness to persist with students

  • Personal belief that all students/families have abilities and strengths

  • Willingness to cooperate and collaborate with family and school staff

  • Ability to work independently and keep records

Check-In Procedures:

• • Identified list of questions and considerations that serve the purpose to both connect and identify potential challenges, for example food insecurity

    • “What did you have for breakfast/lunch/dinner?”

    • “What did you do today?”

    • “What did you learn today?”

    • “Did you struggle with anything today?”

    • “What was hard/easy?”

    • “Is there anything I can help you with?”

Key Considerations:

• • Consider your SAP teams taking on the responsibility to address elevated concerns from mentors

  • Work with your counselors and social workers to come up with indicator questions that demonstrate the need to elevate a student’s situation for increased support.

  • Ensure all staff assigned as mentors have received training on how to deal with difficult situations/questions/information

  • Create a log in which mentors can document contacts/attempted contacts and concerns

  • Ensure there is a process for elevating concerns to be addressed by other staff or community resources

  • Don’t forget mandated reporter requirements if child abuse/endangerment is suspected

RESOURCES (Don’t forget to print resources for families that do not have internet access)

Establishing Classroom Community – Classroom Management – Safety Resources

• Establishing Online Learning Expectations - Suggestions for establishing expectations during this online

• At Home Schedules - Creating schedules at home to maintain consistency and routine

• Creating a Safe Environment - Maintaining structure and routine how to speak to your children, creating a safe environment

• Coping Strategies - Helping children cope with an emergency

• Talking about the Pandemic - Tips for managing student stress

• Online Safety - Talking with kids about being online and digital safety

• More About Cyber Safety - Cyber Safety Considerations

• Dealing with Cyberbullying - Suggestions for connecting with your students and cyberbullying considerations

• Positive Reinforcement - Phone app to provide communication with families and students and provide positive reinforcement tied to your expectations

• Social Emotional Learning - SEL & Edmodo Assignments for Distance Learning, create classes, wellness checks, quizzes, communication, resources

• Personalizing student engagement - checking in with students before they check out

• School Counseling Resources - Planning for Virtual/Distance School Counseling During an Emergency Shutdown

Social Skills & Social Emotional Learning Resources

• Social Skills - Social skills from K-12, mindfulness, impulse control

• Parent Supports for SEL - Parent response during Covid-19 to support social emotional learning supports

• Coping with Disasters - Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Disasters and Other Traumatic Events: What Parents, Rescue Workers, and the Community Can Do

• PaTTAN SEL Resources - SEL resources for families

• CASEL COVID-19 Resource Page Wealth of Social emotional resources, teachers, caregivers and parents

• CASEL Signature Practices Playbook Teacher or parent directed activities (65 pages of resources/lessons to address engagement in social emotional learning

• Commonsense Media Educator Toolkit: SEL Social emotional resources around character strengths humility and gratitude, teamwork and communication, curiosity, empathy and compassion, integrity and self-control

• 8 Amazing Videos to Teach and Practice Mindfulness with Kids Recorded SEL or mindfulness videos

• 5 Incredibly Fun GAMES to Teach Self-Regulation Youtube video with 5 games to teach self-regulation

• We Integrated Yoga videos (registration required) Elementary and Secondary

• InstagramSAVEWITHSTORIES - Online Storytimes

• Helping children cope with COVID-19 - Articles, strategies, etc…

• Office for Safe Schools resources - Resources from PDE on School Climate, Bully Prevention, Mental Health Resources

Mental Health Resources

• Mental Health Toolkit - (Great resources with coping skills for young children, elementary, middle school and beyond, signs of someone that needs mental health support)

• Mindful matter App IOS and Android App provides coping skills, based on how are you feeling?, provides mental health resources & organizations grouped by condition, 360 Experience, faculty & parent training

• Mindfulness, anxiety resources - Affirmations, Self-Care, Anxiety workbooks

• Mental Health First Aid Resources - Mental Health First Aid resource for suggestions for loved ones struggling during this pandemic

• Mental Health Resources for Anxiety/Depression - Mental Health First Aid how to support a loved one with anxiety or depression during Covid-19.

• Mental Health Resources for Self Care - Self-Care for Anxiety Youth Mental Health First Aid

• Self Care - Free Self-Care Activities

• Managing Anxiety - Resources for anxiety management

• Self Care for Teachers - Self-Care strategies for teachers and mindfulness activities

• Using QPR in addressing loneliness - Question, Persuade, Refer (loneliness during pandemic focus on the elderly)

• Staying Connected - Staying connected, self-quiz on the importance of connecting with others to serve as a protective factor minimizing the risk of suicide

Wellness

• Move Your Way - Activity activities to build wellness

• Building an Activity Schedule - Activity Schedule ideas for parents

• Talking with Children - Talking with children about tragedies links with various resources, videos and examples.

Staff Support Resources

• Teaching Through the Pandemic - Hundreds of teachers, many of them operating in countries where teach-from-home has been in place for weeks, weigh in on the mental approach you need to stay grounded in this difficult time.

• Working and Learning Online - Resources for teachers in online teaching

• Do’s and Don’ts of Pandemic teaching - ways to address this new teaching paradigm

• Resources to support teachers - Resources to start important conversations with students about the corona virus outbreak, and to explore questions about community, responsibility, decision-making and upstanding that are relevant in this moment.

• Teacher Self Care - staying balanced during the pandemic.

• Teacher Mental Health - taking care of yourself and your mental health during COVID.