NH Rapid Response Access Point is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – including holidays – by phone, text or chat to support you in your time of need. If you or someone you care about is having a mental health or substance use crisis, you can call and speak to trained and caring staff.
Contact the NH Rapid Response Access Point at 833-710-6477 or visit the website for Additional Information
Center for Life Management- Community mental health center for Newton residents. Provides individual/family counseling and case management as well as crisis and emergency services for any individual experiencing a mental health crisis who needs to speak with someone immediately for additional support.
Referral for Services: Call (603) 434-1577 between 8:30am-5:30pm
24/7 Crisis/Emergency Services: Call (603) 434-1577 choose option 1
Click here for Additional Service Providers in the area
Seacoast Mental Health Center- Community mental health center for Kingston and Fremont residents. Provides individual/family counseling and case management as well as crisis and emergency services for any individual experiencing a mental health crisis who needs to speak with someone immediately for additional support.
Referral for Services: Call (603) 772-2710 between 8:00am-5:00pm
24/7 Crisis/Emergency Services: Call (603) 772-2710 and hit 0 to speak with the operator who will connect you with a clinician.
WAYPOINT Help Along The Way- The Waypoint Family Support Warm Line is a free phone-in service where callers can talk confidentially to a family support professional to get help with everything from coping strategies, child behaviors, family dynamics, household management and emotional distress, to gaining access to tools, resources, and services that can help navigate life during challenging times. Callers may need advice or just a trusted, nonjudgmental ear. Either way, it’s a good way for families to feel less isolated and more supported. The Waypoint Family Support Warm Line can accommodate just about any language spoken in NH.
Warm Line: Call 1-800-640-6486 Anytime Monday through Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm
https://waypointnh.org/programs/the-family-support-warm-line
SoRock: Southern Rockingham Coalition for Healthy Youth- SoRock is a community coalition designed to promote wellness and nurture resiliency for the children, youth and families of Southern Rockingham County, with the goals of preventing substance misuse and reducing the stigma related to mental health issues.
Michelle Garcia Winner: Social Thinking Articles & Strategies
Jessie Lewis: Choose Love Movement
Ross Greene: The Explosive Child - Lives in the Balance
Tina Bryson: Helping You Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy, and Fully Themselves
Carol Dweck Growth Mindset Works: How Parents Can Instill a Growth Mindset at Home
Zones of Regulation: The Zones of Regulation is the original framework and curriculum (Kuypers, 2011) that develops awareness of feelings, energy and alertness levels while exploring a variety of tools and strategies for regulation, prosocial skills, self-care, and overall wellness. This provides stduents an easy way to think and talk about how they feel on the inside and sort these feelings into four colored Zones : BLUE, GREEN, YELLOW, AND RED all of which are expected in life. Once students understand the feelings and zones, they can learn to use tools/strategies to manage different Zones in order to meet goals such as doing schoolwork or other tasks, managing big feelings, and healthy relationships with others.
Tucker The Turtle: Tucker the Turtle is a fun interactive resource created to help children and families learn strategies to work through big feelings like anger. Tucker helps parents and caregivers support their children in learning what they can do to calm their body and emotions down. This user-friendly resource helps teach emotional regulation with a few simple steps. Tucker the Turtle also promotes emotional literacy, problem-solving, and self-regulation in an engaging way. Use the video, scripted stories, and activities linked below to support young children to develop strategies for coping with strong feelings.
The Power To Choose: An Educational and Fun Children's Book Series: The Power to Choose teaches children that no matter what external factors present themselves, it is their choice in how to react; the consequences of the choices we make will shape our days and lives into what they will become. We all make poor choices sometimes. But our ultimate power lies in our ability to choose what’s right over what’s easy, and to constantly seek to improve ourselves and the world around us through the choices we make. These stories help all of us growth, and help us recognize our ability to improve our lives by using the Power to Choose wisely.
Books:
What Should Danny Do?
What Should Danny Do? School Day
What Should Darla Do?
The term “personal space” is common, but it’s important to teach kids what exactly it is. Use the following explanations to help your students get a better idea of what personal space is: Personal space is the amount of space someone needs around them to be comfortable, different people feel comfortable with different amounts of personal space. It’s important not to get into someone else’s personal space, and to politely let others know when you aren’t comfortable with how close they are to you. The amount of space someone needs might depend on your relationship to them, and the situation you are in.
Books:
Songs:
*practice personal space with hula hoops, chalk, and bubbles
Divorce & Children Guide for Families: The overall goals is to support families and create stability for children, lessen the effect of conflict on kids, and connect families to support systems and needed resources. This resource provides both adults and children with books, videos, and websites to navigate separation and/or divorce.
For children, its hard to express how they are feeling, or they may not fully understand the strong emotions they are experiencing for the first time. Grief in kids may cause a temporary behavioral change. Books can be a great resource for helping parents to explain a loss/death/ and for children to learn to work through their emotions in the wake of their loss.
Children's Book: The Invisible String
The Memory Box: A Book About Grief By: Joanna Rowland
The Rabbit Listened By: Cori Doerrfeld
When Something Terrible Happens: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief
What Happens When a Loved One Dies By: Jillian Roberts
Because . . . Someone I Love Has Cancer: Kids' Activity Book
Children's Book: What Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancer?
Our Mission is to help children and families grieving a death navigate their path to a hopeful future and a world where no child grieves alone. Children are our greatest gift. We value Kindness, Compassion, Connections and Courage.
Sea of Hope Initiative:
Support grieving children and families
Educate our schools and our community about grief
Advocate to raise awareness of grief as a public and mental health issue
https://www.friendsofaine.com/community-support.html
Dougy Center provides support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and families who are grieving can share their experiences before and after a death. We provide support and training locally, nationally, and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children in grief.
https://www.dougy.org/grief-support-resources
The Children’s Room offers virtual grief support services for children and families, for schools, and for community organizations. Services include peer support groups, parent groups, teen programs, and Family Night. Consultations and referrals are also provided.
Children & Cancer: A diagnosis of cancer in a family with children presents some unique challenges. Here we offer information and suggestions for parents and families when a child has been diagnosed with cancer. You will also find information on helping children understand and cope when a parent or other family member has cancer.
https://www.cancer.org/treatment/children-and-cancer.html
After Diagnosis: A Guide For Patients & Families
Insights Group Psychological & Coaching Services Rye, NH
603.247.4191 INSIGHTSGROUP.NET
Behavioral Health During Covid-19
Talking to Children About COVID-19
Talking to Kids About the Coronavirus Crisis
Supporting Child and Family Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Emergency
For children, its hard to express all that they are feeling, or may not fully understand the strong emotions they are feeling, grief can be even more difficult and may cause a behavioral change. Books can be a great resource for helping parents to explain a topic that is difficult to explain, and for children to learn to work through their emotions in the wake of their loss. *check your local library to borrow books*
Children's Book: A Little SPOT Wears A Mask
Children's Book: A Little SPOT Learns Online: A Story About Virtual Classroom Expectations
Children's Book: A Little SPOT Stays Home: A Story About Viruses And Safe Distancing
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