Resources for Everyone
Covid-related Stress and Anxiety
Tips for Managing Stress and Anxiety This Winter
How to Care for Yourself while Practicing Social Distancing
How to Create Your Own Self-Care Plan
The Importance of Having a Support System
The Importance of Having a Routine While At Home
Warning Signs: Anxiety and Depression During the Holidays
ACEs and brain-based learning
VIDEO: Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development (justification for asking “What Happened to this child” rather than “What is wrong with this child”)
Executive Function and Self-Regulation (how these skills are dependent on 3 brain functions: working memory, mental flexibility, and self control)
Epigenetics, and how it relates to child development
Positive vs. Tolerable vs. Toxic Stress
How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain
Gestures that can Heal: 5 everyday gestures adults can use to help children heal from trauma
Supportive adult actions can prevent or reverse the negative effects of stress and trauma
LINKS: Trauma Informed Care Project resources (too many videos to link individually at this time)
Mental Health Care
Five Ways to Support a Loved One with Anxiety or Depression
VIDEO (full length): How Routines can help you deal with stress
Nearly 1 in 7 US kids has a mental health condition, and half go untreated
Mental Health First Aid training information
2018 Iowa School Mental Health Report (pleasepassthelove.org)
How to Avoid Passing Anxiety On to Your Kids
Resilience
VIDEO: What is Resilience?
VIDEO: The 7 C’s Model of Resilience
Resilience Skills are Teachable (learning to self-argue temporary vs. permanent, local vs. pervasive, and controllable vs. uncontrollable)
The Science of Resilience: Why some children can thrive despite adversity
The Power of a Caring, Consistent Adult
LINKS: Tanager Place Resiliency Outreach page (videos are longer than 5 minutes)
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
VIDEO: in English, and SEL for Parents en Espanol
Five Ways to Support Someone Who Has Experienced a Traumatic Event
Executive Functioning
VIDEO: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning
VIDEO: How children and adults can build core capabilities for life