Self-Care in the Time of Coronavirus: For families, prioritizing your own well-being benefits your whole household. Make time for yourself, prioritize healthy choices, be realistic, set boundaries, and reconnect with things you enjoy. (Child Mind Institute)
Anxiety and Coping With the Coronavirus: Tips for managing your own, as well as your family's worry. (Child Mind Institute)
Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty: Separate what is in control from what is not, do what helps you feel a sense of safety, get outside in nature, challenge yourself to stay in the present, and stay connected and reach out if you need more support. (AFSP)
Taking Care of Your Behavioral Health During an Infectious Disease Outbreak: Tips for Social Distancing, Quarantine, and Isolation. (SAMHSA)
How I Navigate Coronavirus as an Educator With Anxiety: Understand both your triggers and your security blankets, check in with yourself regularly, and embrace “both/and” thinking while disrupting “either/or” thinking. (Understood For All)
Social distancing doesn't mean isolation! The whole world is in this together and now more than ever we must build relationships. Online communities can serve to share information and resources or to simply support and build relationships in the this time of physical distancing. Take time to relax, laugh, and share for your own well-being as well as your students'.
Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning: This non BPL specific group is designed to support educators who are planning distance or online learning due to school closures for COV19.
School Administrator Coronavirus Planning Group: This non BPL specific group is for school administrators responding to Coronavirus. This is a forum for collaboration and sharing ideas.
Global Educator Collective: “We are an international group of teachers who wanted to support others on transitioning to online learning.”
Search for or create your own communities on Facebook or find other platforms that can bring together people you want to share with. Check out this Facebook site created by the community of Leominster Center for Excellence.
Virtual Counseling and Wellness Services: Many schools have already connected counselors and wellness supports with students via zoom or other online video tools. Additionally, the impact of COVID19 on families, staff, and young people may increase the need for counseling and wellness services. How can you connect families, staff, and young people with these resources?
Stress Management for Educators: Try some or all of these practices to experience a greater sense of well-being and resilience. (Greater Good in Education)
Raising Kids During COVID-19 (Psychology Today)
ASSET At-Home Toolkit: Five concrete stress-reducing tools to practice with your children. (ASSET Education)
Free app “Stop, Breathe, & Think for Educators”: Access to over 100 premium activities, with new activities ranging from guided mindfulness audio tracks, to videos on yoga and acupressure, and animated mindful games.