Resources

Mindfulness and Wellness Apps

Headspace- Live a healthier, happier, more well-rested life in just a few minutes a day with the Headspace guided meditation app.

Relax Melodies: Sleep Sounds - the ability to easily mix sounds and create your personalized ambiances helps teach you how to use sound & meditation to calm your brain, achieve better sleep, have more energy, better focus, decrease anxiety and enjoy your intense teen life.

Stop, Breathe, Think - Stop, Breathe, Think allows you to chart how you are doing mentally, physically, and emotionally, then suggests meditations that will reinforce the positive

Calm - In our accelerated, “always-on” culture, we’ve forgotten how to just be calm, but it's a very valuable state of mind for many reasons, and we need to figure out how to bring ourselves back to that.

Colorfy: Coloring Art Games - The ORIGINAL coloring book! Join over 25 million users in a relaxing experience. Paint mandalas, patterns, animals, florals, and thematic images from our artists - or upload your own drawings and give them even more life!

Color Therapy Coloring Number - color therapy is #1 Social Coloring App for relaxation and mindfulness with millions of addicted coloring artists! There is a wide variety of coloring themes to choose from here- from animals to plants, flowers and photogenic women across different cultures.

The Safe Place - A mental health app that educates and raises awareness on mental illness in the Black community. Includes coping skills and self-assessment tools for anyone!

Mindshift - When your teen downloads the Mindshift app, they'll be greeted with a welcome message telling them there are steps they can take to stop anxiety from controlling their lives. This app is good for helping teens work through their anxiety rather than avoiding issues that are causing it.

Magic Puzzles - Magic Jigsaw Puzzles is the largest Jigsaw puzzle game and community online, with over 25,000 HD pictures to relax and solve, new free daily jigsaws.

Gratitude Garden - The app that encourages happiness! It will push you to think about what has gone right in your day. Every time you note something you recieve points that can be used to build up a garden!

Daylio - A journaling/mood tracker app that features a calendar; helping to support mood patterns.

Audio Books

The resources and links below are intended to provide you with additional online mental health care information. The following is not meant to be a comprehensive list, nor is it an endorsement of the content of the sites.

Associations & Institutes

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

• Mental Health America

• National Institute of Mental Health

• National Mental Health Association

• National Sleep Foundation

• National Women’s Health Resource Center

• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Suicide Awareness and Hotlines

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

• Suicide Awareness Voices of Education

• Suicide: Read This First

Mental Health

• Bipolar Disorder News – Pendulum.org

• Depression and How Therapy Can Help

• Depression Screening

• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)

• Beyond OCD

• National Center for PTSD

• Give an Hour— for veterans and their families

• The Gift From Within

Addiction and Recovery

• Alcoholics Anonymous

• Center for On-Line Addiction

• Web of Addictions

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• ADDA – Attention Deficit Disorder Association

• Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, NIMH

Child Abuse and Domestic Violence

• Childhelp USA®

• Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse

• The National Domestic Violence Hotline Website

Medication

• DrugWatch.com provides up-to-date information about prescription and over-the-counter medications, including details about associated side effects.

• Drugalert.org is a comprehensive database with information and news alerts about potentially dangerous drugs currently on the market or previously available worldwide.