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A useful one page handout that can help provide guidance for returning to school. Developed by Positive Discipline Community Resources (PDCR).
Explore and play all summer long with a variety of free resources from PBS KIDS. Spark curiosity and creativity with hands-on activities and games supporting literacy, math, science, and fun.
Learn about the brain science behind dysregulation
Understand the signs of dysregulation
Explore strategies to support the development of emotion-regulation skills in children
Talk So Your Teen Listens & Listens So Your Teen Engages
Promoting proactive thinking over dwelling on negative thoughts or inaction can yield numerous benefits. By shifting focus towards proactive actions, individuals can enhance productivity, acknowledge their progress, and achieve their goals more effectively. This mindset not only boosts productivity but also cultivates resilience, empowering individuals to navigate challenges with a constructive approach. Overall, fostering proactive thinking can facilitate personal growth and success.
For adults, children, and teens.
Practical tips and strategies to build SEL skills at home.
Explore parent resources to help you raise kind, curious, and resilient children. Find parenting tips, hand-on activities, and apps featuring your child's favorite PBS KIDS characters.
For adults, children, and teens. Do yoga at home with the library of hundreds of free yoga videos hosted by the yoga teacher, Adriene Mishler.
Family games to teach positive social interactions, encourage relationship skills, and practice effective communication.
Learning to regulate our emotional responses, especially during times of stress, can be difficult. Calming strategies can help a child to work through strong emotions. When calming strategies are practiced regularly throughout the day, the possibility for use at times of anxiety is increased.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), along with recent community-wide adversities and COVID-19, have left children vulnerable to long-term mental and physical health challenges. This video series is designed to help you understand the impact of trauma; how it affects children and youth; and what you can do to support them. It shares practical personal self-care and child well-being tools so you are better equipped to make a life-changing difference for a child.
Practices, resources, and articles for individuals, parents, educators, and health care professionals facing COVID-19.
Practices, resources, and articles for individuals, parents, educators, and health care professionals facing COVID-19.
This resource defines five steps we can use to open conversations, get to the heart of an issue, and support children's healthy emotion regulation skills.
Social emotional learning encompasses a large subset of skills and competencies including self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationships, and decision-making. With so many skills to work on, there are many opportunities to work on them any time. Have FUN!
*SEL, or Social Emotional Learning, is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions. Learn more.
The CA Surgeon General, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, developed a simple, six-page playbook outlining six universal stress busting strategies. The beauty of the playbook, and image to the left, is that it succinctly summarizes the latest evidence about what works to relieve stress and heal past trauma.
Learn the six stress-busting strategies and how to create a self-care template.
If you’re a parent or another important adult in a child’s life, you might be wondering what you can do now to help your child grow up with resilience.The American Psychological Association has some excellent tips and techniques on encouraging resilience in the children in your life.
A Parent’s Guide to Social and Emotional Learning
A Parent’s Guide to Social and Emotional Learning
SEL is a process through which children and adults learn to recognize and manage emotions, demonstrate care and concern for others, develop positive relationships, make good decisions, and behave ethically, respectfully, and responsibly.
When the youngest learners are given space and tools to process the intense emotions they feel when caregivers drop them off, they become more confident in a classroom setting.
Rich experiences—from play to the arts and relationships—fundamentally shape a young child’s development.
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