This site has many guides, articles, and videos on topics such as academics, developmental norms, social/emotional issues, and current events.
Parent Toolkit te permite encontrar en un único lugar una serie de recursos producidos y desarrollados especialmente para los padres
How to Help Teens Build Life Skills for Success
Social Emotional Parent Guide for Teens.pdfHow to Celebrate Diversity in Early Childhood
At school or at home, adults can provide a framework for young children to embrace different perspectives and diverse cultures, reducing bias and fostering empathy.www.parenttoolkit.com/social-and-emotional-development/news/social-awareness/five-ways-to-encourage-and-celebrate-diversity-with-early-learnersBecoming a Resilient Family
All families face challenges and adversity. Our ability to respond to and recover from these difficulties is a measure of our resiliency. Learn how to help your family develop resiliency through clear and positive communication, flexibility, healthy coping strategies, a focus on individual and family strengths, and experiences that promote mental health and wellness.
The Parent Guide to Resilience
This guide is to help increase resilience in yourself as well as in your children.
Guía para padres: Resiliencia
El propósito de esta Guía para padres es ayudarlo a aumentar la resiliencia en usted y en sus hijos.
Social Justice Resources
Free Webinars for Parents and Caregivers from the Mental Health Association in NY. They are parent focused, with practical and easy ways to implement strategies at home everyday.
Please be aware that these were pre-recorded, so any mention of question and answer by the speaker is not applicable.
Managing Stress With a Wellness Mindset
This free 30 minute parent focused webinar discusses what stress is and how it affects us, both physical and emotional. It also explains how we can manage stress through a "wellness mindset," and aims to develop and practice self-compassion and positive inner dialogue, realistic expectations and healthy boundaries, and choosing to support self-care.
Coping with a Crisis
It discusses how families may function in a crisis (both normally and specific to COVID-19), and ways to foster connection and promote whole family wellness during a crisis.
Mental Health & Wellness 101 for Families and Caregivers
This webinar discusses what mental health is, risk and protective factors for mental health problems, and when to ask for help.
Children and Mental Health: Is This Just a Stage?
Los niños y la salud mental: ¿Es solo una etapa?
Resilience Through Mindfulness
This video and handout provides parents tools for teaching children to develop mindfulness, the simple practice of turning inward to pay attention to the present moment. Mindfulness is an innate ability we all possess as humans like the ability to walk, read or write. It requires guidance and practice to cultivate but can become a life skill that builds resilience especially in the face of adversity.
Parent-Mindfulness-and-Deep-Breathing.pdfRespirar para niños
Breathing for kids
Positive Affirmations
Please read this awesome article on positive affirmations! Positive affirmations not only allow individuals to build and believe in their self-confidence, but help create resiliency against negative beliefs or statements. Positive affirmations are for children, teens, and adults, try as a family to make them part of your daily routine!
Check out this list of positive affirmations! Start with only a few, relevant ones for yourself.
Control
Often when individuals feel as though they can't control aspects of their life, it can cause anxiety or stress. One way to cope with this stress/anxiety is identify the things you CAN control. It is often more things that you realize.
One way to help children understand this is to have them picture rocks (can't change shape) and play doh (can change shape).
Coping Skills Checklist.pdfCoping Skills To Try
Everyone has different coping skills that work for them, and work for different feelings they are having. This is not only a great list of many coping activities, but offers the idea to circle ones you want to try, and to cross off ones that don't work.
Guided Meditations-Stress less, move more, and sleep more soundly
Meditaciónes guiadas-Estresate menos, relájate más y duerme mejor
Book Recommendation:
Freeing Your Child From Anxiety: Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life--from Toddlers to Teens
This is a great book that explains different kinds of anxiety that children and adolescents may be experiencing, and gives practical tips on how to help them, and yourselves, learn to manage worry and anxiety. I was able to find it free online through my local library, if you are looking for something to read I highly recommend!
