Embedded Files
Parents and guardians, please use this page to reference important numbers to know, community based resources, information, articles, tips, images and videos intended to provide support and guidance.
Parents and guardians, please use this page to reference important numbers to know, community based resources, information, articles, tips, images and videos intended to provide support and guidance.
Helpful Numbers
Helpful Numbers
Delaware County Mobile Crisis Team (a trained crisis team can respond to your home). Call 1-855-889-7827 for 24/7 support.
Crisis Text Line - Text HOME to 741741 and a crisis worker will respond. Their website also has extra resources.
Suicide Prevention Lifeline - You can talk online or call 1-800-273-8255 for 24/7 support. Check out their website for additional resources - https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Peer-to-Peer Warm Line: (This phone helpline uses Certified Peer Specialists to provide support to individuals who aren’t in crisis, but struggle with emotional and mental health challenges. The peer specialist will listen and problem-solve with the caller, and offer direction to other crisis services if necessary). Call 855-464-9342
National Alliance on Mental Illness: https://www.nami.org/find-support/nami-helpline - Call 800-950-6264 on Monday-Friday from 10am-6pm or text NAMI to 741741 for 24/7 immediate support.
Safe2Say Something: https://www.safe2saypa.org/what-is-safe2say-something/ (This site allows for anonymous reporting of safety concerns to a crisis team in order to help prevent violence, threats or tragedies from occuring).
Child Abuse Hotline: Call 1-800-932-0313
Drug and Alcohol Help Line: Call 1-800-821-4357
The Department of Human Services (DHS) announced the launch of a statewide Support & Referral Helpline staffed by skilled and compassionate caseworkers who will be available 24/7 to counsel Pennsylvanians struggling with anxiety and other challenging emotions due to the COVID-19 emergency and refer them to community-based resources that can further help to meet individual needs.
“Pennsylvanians will overcome this crisis together by following the guidance of public-health professionals who advise social-distancing to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, but physical isolation does not mean social isolation,” said DHS Secretary Teresa Miller. “We must support people where they are during this time of crisis.”
The toll-free, round-the-clock support line is officially operational today, Thursday, April 2, 2020. The number to call is 1-855-284-2494.
Services offering tele-therapy (therapy services through video conferencing or by phone)
Services offering tele-therapy (therapy services through video conferencing or by phone)
Springfield Psychological is offering Telehealth for medication management and outside counseling.
https://springpsych.com or call 610 544 2110 to schedule a tele-therapy appointment
Delaware County Professional Services
https://www.dcpsonline.com/why-gbhp-copy-3-copy/
Child Guidance Resources Center
WHAT IF...
If they cancel the rest of the school year, students would miss 2.5 months of education. Many people are concerned about students falling behind because of this. Yes, they may fall behind when it comes to classroom education...
But what if...?
What if instead of falling “behind", this group of kids are ADVANCED because of this? Hear me out...
What if they have more empathy, they enjoy family connection, they can be more creative and entertain themselves, they love to read, they love to express themselves in writing.
What if they enjoy the simple things, like their own backyard and sitting near a window in the quiet.
What if they notice the birds and the dates the different flowers emerge, and the calming renewal of a gentle rain shower?
What if this generation are the ones to learn to cook, organize their space, do their laundry, and keep a well run home?
What if they learn to stretch a dollar and to live with less?
What if they learn to plan shopping trips and meals at home.
What if they learn the value of eating together as a family and finding the good to share in the small delights of the everyday?
What if they are the ones to place great value on our teachers and educational professionals, librarians, public servants and the previously invisible essential support workers like truck drivers, grocers, cashiers, custodians, logistics, and health care workers and their supporting staff, just to name a few of the millions taking care of us right now while we are sheltered in place?
What if among these children, a great leader emerges who had the benefit of a slower pace and a simpler life to truly learn what really matters in this life?
What if they are AHEAD?
**(Source of this is unknown but it really makes you think about things a bit differently.)**
Kids listen to our actions, not our words
How to talk so your child will listen
Teen depression and how to help
Teens and self-harm: What parents need to know
Teens on talking with parents
Teens on talking with parents
Social anxiety in teens and how to help
Social anxiety in teens and how to help
7 things teens wish they could say to their parents
7 things teens wish they could say to their parents
Page updated
Report abuse