Parents & Caregivers
SEL4ME
The Department of Education has developed a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum for kindergarten to high school students. This curriculum was developed for educators, students as well as parents and caregivers. This curriculum supports building skills for students in five core competencies, self-awareness, relationships, responsible decision-making, self-management and social awareness.
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Visit https://www.smarterparenting.com/ for:
Information on childhood diagnosis
Parenting Skills
Research, resources and support
Understanding Behaviors
Sometimes it can feel overwhelming and impossible to manage our child's behavior. We start to lose patience and understanding and see our stress levels rise. It is not effective parenting when we are in this state and our own stress can make things worse for our child and the relationship.
ADHD: A New Perspective
Loren Andrews, MA, MSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private practice in Rockland, Maine. His practice specializes primarily in relational and couples counseling, adolescent and adult ADHD, anxiety and panic disorder, as well as helping victims of trauma in their recovery.
His approach to ADHD is that it is not a disorder, but a difference. Because the human mind has 88 billion neurons, and trillions of connections, it must regulate itself to work. That’s why ADHD is a Regulation Difference, or what he calls the RD Mind. Because the RD Mind is a little less regulated than other human minds, that difference results in more thinking, more feeling, and more doing, which then gives a person with an RD Mind a series of gifts and challenges.
If you or a loved one have and RD mind you can view some helpful and empowering content through Loren's Youtube Channel!
"ParentTeen Connect is designed by social-emotional learning experts as an at-home, family-engagement resource. This online experience is loaded with videos, resources, and useful advice to help teens and the adults in their lives address hot-button topics. The site complements the Second Step® Middle School Program both as a stand-alone parent resource and in connection with Middle School Program classroom activities."
The Imagine Neighborhood Podcast!
This is a wonderful resource for both teachers and families. This creates a space for families to talk about topics around problem solving, self-awareness, healthy relationships, social belonging and much more!
Guide on Childhood Mental Health and Developmental Resources
This list provides what community resources are available to you and your child when concerned about both mental health and developmental needs.
Resource Guide For Maine Families, Schools and Communities
This is a guide is a helpful tool that breaks down systems of support within both schools and communities. If you would like to learn more about how to access support for your child this is a great place to start.
Is health Insurance getting in the way of being able to access needed care?
Check out these programs:
"CarePartners builds upon a long tradition of doctors and hospitals in Maine providing care for patients regardless of health care coverage or ability to pay. CarePartners helps people get primary care and specialty care with supportive services, such as case management and low cost medicines. CarePartners coordinates the supply of donated health care services for low-income, uninsured residents in the following five Maine counties: Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Waldo and York. A partnership of MaineHealth, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, CarePartners helps people who don't qualify for public or private health care coverage programs get the health care they need."
"Katie Beckett is a MaineCare option for children with serious physical or mental health condition. It is one of the many ways your child can get MaineCare. If your child meets the rules for this option, your child can get MaineCare full benefits. These are the same benefits that other children get."
"A child under age 19, who is over the income level for free MaineCare, may qualify for CHIP and pay a low-cost premium for health coverage."
"MaineCare provides free or low-cost health insurance, other health benefits, and assistance to kids under age 21 who meet income guidelines or disability criteria."
A resource you should you should know about...
Crisis Support
Crisis support can be used for parents if they are worried about their child having suicidal or homicidal thoughts or ideation as well as if they are concerned about physically aggressive behaviors.
If you are concerned about yourself or about somebody else
please call the
Maine Crisis Hotline
1-888-568-1112
Available 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week
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Chat with a crisis counselor online:
Lifeline Crisis Chat
www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/gethelp/lifelinechat.aspx
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Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741-741
NAMI Maine Teen Text Support Line
(207) 515-8398
Intentional Warm Line
Call the Intentional Warm Line 24/7 from anywhere in Maine at
1.866.771.9276 (WARM).
The Intentional Warm Line is available toll-free from anywhere in Maine, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is a mental health peer-to-peer phone support line for adults, aged 18 and older, offering mutual conversations with a trained peer specialist who has life experience with mental health recovery. The focus is to encourage and foster recovery, moving toward wellness and reconnecting with community
Support for Grandparents raising Grandchildren
It is important to have conversations with our children when they are young about ways to protect themselves. Just like we teach our children to ride their bikes with helmets or to look both ways when crossing a road, we also need to teach them about personal boundaries and how to be assertive. Having the conversation specifically about sexual abuse does not always come natural to some of us but there are resources to help guide the process, please visit HotChocolateTalk.org for more resources!
A free, private 24-hour Helpline with trained advocates who are understanding and ready to help *Call 1-800-871-7741 to speak to an advocate now
Text or online chat support
Emotional support to survivors and their families and friends anytime
Company for survivors who go to the hospital, police, or court
In-person and online peer support groups
Information and referrals to different resources
Training for local agencies and organizations
Community and school-based Education
Healthy Kids
"Healthy Kids is a community based family and professional network, offering support and educational outreach to families throughout Lincoln County. Since 1985, Healthy Kids has worked to enhance and improve the lives of children and parents, providing a wide variety of programs. These programs are designed to help parents, caregivers and professionals in raising emotionally, physically and cognitively healthy children."
Healthy Kids offers group parenting classes (for all ages of kids, blended families, families in recovery, families needing supervised visitation, etc.), individual parenting support, community dinners, offer free cribs to families in need, provide Christmas toys to families, offer parenting classes in high schools, professional trainings and more. Please go to their website or call 207-563-1818 for more information! You can also visit them on facebook @healthykidsmaine.
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