At-Home SEL Activities

This page offers a variety of activities that you can engage in at home to support your child's social-emotional development.

At-Home Winter SEL Activities

School Counseling Activity Packet Grades K-5.pdf

School Counseling Activity pack for students in grades K to 5

1School Counseling_School Closure Resources Grades 5-8.pdf

School Counseling Activity pack for students in grades 5 to 8

Toolkits and Websites

The CDC has developed a COVID-19 Toolkit for parents. Clicking on the links below will bring you to resources based on your child's age.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has developed a suite of resources for children and parents.

Tools for Younger Children and Their Parents

Tools for Youth and Teens

Parenting Montana has a variety of tools and resources for children categorized by age and by topic.

The Stars Toolkit has a variety of resources for parents and children, including information that addresses grief, loss, trauma, and stress.

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Social Media and Mental Health

Social Media & the Mind

Jacqueline Sperling, PhD, explains the science behind what keeps us constantly coming back to social media outlets, shares how overuse impacts kids and teens differently than adults, and answers audience questions about how we can improve our digital habits.

Confident Kids Confident Parents offers some strategies for supporting healthy internet and social media use.

Social Media: Tips for Foster Parents and Caregivers

While social media has changed the way the world communicates, it has also created privacy and safety concerns. This page discusses the benefits of social media for children and youth in foster care and provides tips for parents and caregivers who want to help youth use social media safely. Advice for social media use by foster parents is also provided.

This page includes information, including a webinar, about the relationship between social media use and mental health.

Additional Resources

The "Big 7" - Evidence-based Strategies for Regulating Emotions In Uncertain Times

In this webinar, Dr. Marc Brackett, director at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, will discuss how we can grow our emotion regulation skills, and apply them to a variety of situations.

Creating a Family Emotional Safety Plan

Confident Parents, Confident Kids offers this guide for creating a family emotional safety plan. Remember, it is important that avoid telling children to always avoid negative feelings. Instead, it is important to teach children how to express and handle negative feelings.

Mental Health Checkup

Pause and take a moment to check up on yourself. Try taking a deep breath. How do you feel? Can you identify a problem? Until we know what is bothering us, it’s hard to know how to manage it.
Consider the four tools, starting with the Distraction Tool. Take some time to learn how each one works.
Which tool do you think will help you feel better right now? (On a different day, it might be a different tool.)
Now, pick one and give it a try! If it helps you, great! If you need more help, try changing categories or adding a category, such as listening to music while taking a walk.