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Programs

The Triple P Online Program (ages 2-12)

Series of 8 self-guided modules (plus an extra COVID-19 module).

Programs

Teen Triple P Online Program (ages 12-16)

Series of 6 self-guided modules (plus an extra COVID-19 module).

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Self-regulation in young children

Overview of emotional regulation to help adults better understand what it is and why it's important and some techniques for teaching to children.

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Sesame Street Caring for Each Other

Your friends on Sesame Street are here to support you during the COVID-19 health crisis.

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Sesame Street In Communities: Health Emergencies Initiative

The resources on this page can help families cope during challenging times. Can select parent or provider to get customized content.

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WE Well Being: COVID-19-toolkit

Downloadable resources to inform and support you and your family during this uncertain time.

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xSEL Labs: SEL In An Unplanned Home School Setting

Ideas for setting expectations, teaching SEL competencies in context, motivating, and staying connected with social support networks.

National Association of School Psychologists: Helping Children Cope with Changes Resulting From COVID-19

NASP offers guidance for adults to speak with young people about COVID-19 while also modeling problem-solving, flexibility, and compassion.

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New York Times: 5 Ways to Help Teens Manage Anxiety About the Coronavirus

Guidance that takes into account the developmental needs of adolescents, with ideas for channeling stress productively.

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NPR: What to Say to Kids When the News is Scary

This audio recording and article shares developmentally appropriate ways to help young people process current events and counteract misinformation.

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Partnership for Children Covid-19 wellbeing activities

Resources to boost your child's wellbeing during the Covid-19 lockdown.

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PBS: How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus

PBS Kids’ recommendations for speaking to young children about COVID-19, social distancing, and hygiene, with links to relevant episodes of PBS shows.

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Coronavirus (COVID-19): tips and links to help families manage physical distancing or self-isolation

Tips on how to keep your family healthy, active, entertained, how to use screentime, how to deal with sibling conflict, and more.

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Covid-19 children’s wellbeing activities

These activities are based on our Skills for Life programmes. Use them to help your child find healthy ways to deal with their feelings and reactions.

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Greater Good in Education: Supporting Learning and Well-Being During the Coronavirus Crisis

This resource provides practices for families and educators to support learning and well-being for young people in kindergarten through college.

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How Can We Help Kids With Self-Regulation?

Resource for Teaching Emotional Regulation.

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Lions Quest COVID-19 Online Resources

SEL at Home series, is a collection of short, mindfulness and SEL skill-building lessons with activities for families.

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Coping With Social Anxiety During Social Distancing

Article with tips on how to help reluctant kids stay connected amid the pandemic.

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Conscious Discipline: Five Tips for Successful Home Learning

Julie Ruffo, Conscious Discipline Editor, provides some ways to set yourself and your kids up for successful home learning.

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Conscious Discipline: COVID-19: Five Helpful Responses for Families

Helpful videos, articles, printables and podcasts that equip families and educators to navigate sheltering, learning and working from home.

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Child Mind Institute: Talking to Kids About the Coronavirus

This short video and list of recommendations takes into account the developmental needs of children.

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Child Mind Institute: Single Parenting During the Coronavirus Crisis

Provides strategies for single parents during COVID-19 grounded in the ideas of “radical acceptance” and self-compassion.

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Camp Kindness Counts: Building Character with Kind World Explorers

Activities, videos, articles and book suggestions for educators, parents and caregivers to learn how to foster character and support well-being.

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Big Life Journal

Everyone LOVES our free weekly printables! They're unique, fun, engaging, and simply brilliant.

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Beyond Differences Resources to Stay Connected While Coping with COVID-19

3 separate PDF's with list of things teens, parents and teachers can do to limit social isolation durring the pandemic.

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American Psychological Association: Building Your Resilience

Specific ways to build resilience in times of stress through building connections, fostering wellness, finding purpose and embracing healthy thoughts.

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AIR: Building Positive Conditions for Learning at Home: Strategies and Resources for Families and Caregivers

Four basic elements for parents on creating a supportive learning space at home, with concrete strategies in both English and Spanish.

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75 Ways for Kids to Connect and Contribute

These 75 ideas are a fun way to shift your perspective from an “I can’t” mindset of isolation to a “We can do this” sense of togetherness.

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52 Essential Conversations: The Life Skills Card Game for Age 5 to Adults - Builds Social Emotional, Critical Thinking, Growth Mindset & Vocabulary Skills, By Created by Harvard Educators by Mind Brain Parenting

A research-backed card game that builds 21st century skills in social emotional learning, critical thinking, mindfulness, self-confidence, and more.

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3 Kid-Friendly Meditations Your Children Will Love

Meditations for kids to help equip them with the tools to help them fend off negative thoughts and behaviors, build self-confidence, focus, and more.

Apps

Three Good Things: A Happiness Journal

This journaling app can help kids build mindfulness based on a simple premise: write three good things that happen to them daily, and feel happier.

Apps

Choose Esteem

A simplified process that empowers parents to help with their child’s social, emotional, ADHD, resilience, anxiety/depression needs.

Apps

Happyfeed - Self Care Journal

Happyfeed is a simple journal designed to improve your mental health by reflecting on gratitude and happy moments each day.

Apps

Headspace

Researched backed application that positively impacts mental and physical health by reducing stress, improving sleep, increasing focus, and more.

Books

Zen Pig: Feelings Are Clouds

Book 6 brings us even more Zen Pig wisdom as he helps his niece understand, accept, and welcome her feelings.

Books

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, By Lisa Damour Ph.D.

Untangled gives parents a broad framework for understanding their daughters while addressing their most common questions.

Books

The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child, By Tina Payne Bryson & Daniel Siegel

In The Yes Brain, the authors give parents skills, scripts, and activities to bring kids of all ages into the beneficial “yes” state.

Books

The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans: How to Decode Their Behavior, Develop Unshakable Trust, and Raise a Respectable Adult, By Josh Shipp

Breaks down the distinct phases of teenage life, examining the challenges at each phase, and offers revelatory stories.

Books

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, By Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

How trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.

Books

The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively, By Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell

Discover your child's primary language—then speak it—and you will be well on your way to a stronger relationship with your flourishing child.

Books

Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

Twelve vital inner strengths hardwired into your own nervous system.

Books

Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents, Christine Carter

Next to being healthy, we want them to be happy, of course. Fortunately, a wide array of scientific studies show that happiness is a learned behavior.

Books

I AM HEALTHY: A Child's Guide to Coping with Covid-19

This book may assist children in protecting their emotional and physical health. The book is beautifully illustrated in fun and engaging scenes.

Books

Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community

A collection of inspirational stories written by young people as well as personal notes of empowerment from Born This Way Foundation.

Books

Coping Skills for Kids Workbook: Over 75 Coping Strategies to Help Kids Deal with Stress, Anxiety and Anger, By Janine Halloran

Help teach children to calm down, balance their energy and emotions, and process challenging feelings.

Books

Coping with COVID When You're a KID: A survival guide for kids and grownups too

Coping with COVID explains to the little ones and the not-so-little ones what the pandemic is and how it affects our lives.

Books

Coronavirus: A Book for Children

Free download about Coronavirus.

Books

A Kids Book About Mindfulness

Who are you? Are you your thoughts? Are you your feelings? Are you your hairstyle? Is that who you are?

Books

Born to Be Wild Born to Be Wild: Why Teens Take Risks, and How We Can Help Keep Them Safe, BY Jess Schatkin

Research and clinical experience to the subject, along with cutting-edge findings from brain science, evolutionary psychology, game theory, and more.

Books

A Kids Book About Emotions

This book helps kids explore the complexities of their personal emotions by telling stories, asking questions, and using guided self-expression.

Books

A Kids Book About Depression

This is a book about depression. It doesn’t shy away from both the complexities of depression or what getting help might look like.

Audio

"Zen Parenting Radio - ZPR PODCAST WEEKLY SHOW"

Zen Parenting is a weekly online radio discussion between a spiritual and emotional mom and a logical and practical dad.

Audio

Why is the Y so Vulnerable?

60-70% of all Covid 19 deaths are male. Look at the unique fragilities of the Y chromosome and strategies for building resiliency.

Audio

The Mom Hour

Hosts Meagan Francis and Sarah Powers have eight kids altogether, and are here to offer insights and laughs on parenting preschoolers to teenagers.

Audio

Real Mom Podcast: TRAUMA PARENTING IN A PANDEMIC + NEW MERCIES FOR QUARANTINE + GOLDFISH & RED WINE

Marion Smyser sheds some light on trauma parenting in a pandemic and the grace we all so desperately need.

Audio

Preventing Child Abuse During a Pandemic – PediaCast 461

A healthy dose of pediatric news, parenting tips, interviews with experts, and the latest research findings--with explanations you can understand!

Audio

Parenting Survival Podcast

Tackling daily damage control is a little bit easier with the zany insights of Natasha Daniels who will help you figure out how to navigate overwhelm.

Audio

Parenting on Purpose

Answers For Today's Families.

Audio

Parenting Bytes

In a parenting guide for the digital age, contributors explore how to raise a child amidst the screens and apps.

Audio

Parenting Beyond Discipline: #195: How to Fix Disrespectful Attitude & More COVID Support Tips

Erin gives some great general guidelines and six tips for teaching and setting respectful boundaries with young kids.

Audio

Parenting Beyond Discipline: #194: Protecting Our Families & Others from COVID

Do you have questions or concerns about your kids returning to school and/or their exposure to COVID?

Audio

Parenting Beyond Discipline: #183: Is Your Child Experiencing Trauma from the Pandemic?

Is your child experiencing some trauma? What does it look like? How do we support kids to heal from trauma?

Audio

Little Sprigs

Switch on to conscious parenting with Sandra Fazio. She shares from her experience, as well as from the teachings of author Dr. Shefali Tsabary.

Audio

Listener Question: How Do I Talk about Death and Dying to my Kids?

Covid has brought a lot of death talk into our homes. This mom asks how she can talk about dying and death with her four year old.

Audio

How to Talk to Kids about StepFamilies and Blended Families with Ron L. Deal, MMFT

How do we find love, strengthen it and keep it in a step family?

Audio

How to Talk to Kids About Anger & Big Feelings with Wendy Young – ReRelease

Podcast about how to co-regulate, and what to say when your children have big feelings and are showing intensity.

Audio

How to Talk about Anxiety in Kids with Karen Young – ReRelease

This podcast will focus on how to talk to kids about anxiety what is happening in their bodies when anxiety takes hold.

Audio

How to Prepare Kids to Thrive in a Rapidly Changing World with Madeline Levine, PhD

A few states are starting to open here and there but many parents still feel a lot of anxiety around going back to “normal”.

Audio

How to Parent Through a Pandemic While Letting Go of Perfect with Graeme Seabrook

Questions of financial issues, emotional issues, mental issues, loneliness, fear, frustration and how we are all going to cope with the day to day.

Audio

Education, Your Child, and the New Normal

Michael and Tim look at the disruption of Covid 19 and how to navigate the education of our kids through it.

Other Resources

Sesame Street In Communities: Health Emergencies Initiative

A series of videos from the popular television series that will help provide children with tools to overcome the emotional challenges of the pandemic.

Apps

Happyfeed - Self Care Journal

Happyfeed is a simple journal designed to improve your mental health by reflecting on gratitude and happy moments each day.

Apps

Three Good Things: A Happiness Journal

Three Good Things is a happiness journal that helps you to write down three good things that happen to you every day.

Apps

Headspace

Researched backed application that positively impacts mental and physical health by reducing stress, improving sleep, increasing focus, and more.

Apps

Choose Esteem

Help your child with their emotional and mental wellness. Esteem helps families navigate through emotional and behavioral challenges.

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