Resources

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

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

Practical strategies for teachers to build developmentally appropriate relationships with their students during COVID.

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

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

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

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

Practical information and guidance on self-care for educators.

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

Introduction to mindful breathing, mantras, meditation, and stretching as a way to for little ones to find the present moment.

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

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

These tips on how to help friends and loved ones are aimed specifically at young readers.

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

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

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

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

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.

Specific strategies to help student maintain social connections, manage stress, and build supportive environments.

SEL educational lessons, activities, and videos for parents and educators to help students stay calm, stay positive, and stay active.

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

Resource for Teaching Emotional Regulation.

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

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

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

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

Provides guidance for designing quality distance learning experiences, focusing in on ways to reach students with limited tech access.

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

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

A poster to help children learn how to identify and manage emotions.

This is Center for Responsive Schools monthly journal that contains stories of educators from schools who have been implementing Responsive Classroom.

Here, children can find games, comics, and activities they can do on their own, or with families, to learn about how they can help stop bullying.

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

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

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

A thought-provoking reflection from a leader in the SEL-field on how the pandemic created the opportunity for an ‘equity check’ in our society.

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

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

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.

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

Resource for Teaching Emotional Regulation and mindfulness.

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.

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.

Laugh and learn as you help a Sesame Street monster friend calm down and solve everyday challenges.

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

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

Smiling Mind offers hundreds of mindfulness activities for all ages. In addition to breathing meditations, the app has sensory exercises, and more.

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

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

We had to stay apart, but, all around the world, kids came up with creative and thoughtful ways to help each other.

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

Empower children and adolescents to cope with trauma and build resiliency.

A flexibound interactive journal to help readers creatively foster gratitude in their daily lives.

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

Using gentle language and colorful graphics, topics about virus prevention, social distancing, mask-wearing, online learning and more, are addressed.

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

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

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.

Twelve vital inner strengths hardwired into your own nervous system.

This book is a mindfully written self-help guide to aid children in dealing with stress and anxiety, by uncovering their emotions.

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.

This book is intended to help children respond effectively to reintegrating back into the school systems post the Covid-19 pandemic.

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

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

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

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

Free download about Coronavirus.

Covid-19 isn't fair! Everyone wants to go out and see their friends, but they CAN'T. Everything is tough right now, so what is a kid to do?

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

Yes, this really is a kids book about racism. Inside, you’ll find a clear description of what racism is, how it makes people feel.

This book was made to help kids understand what systemic racism is and how it’s built into laws, schools, stories, and other institutions.

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

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

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

This book is written by a scientist who studies disease outbreaks and is meant to provide some answers and start discussions.

Empathetic and encouraging, this book emphasizes talking through life’s many changes with the people they care about and trust.

This book explores what anxiety is like and what life can look like when you’re able to manage to live with anxiety.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Answers For Today's Families.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coronavirus. What exactly is it? How does it spread? Can I protect myself? We answer all those questions and more in our series.

Smiling Mind is a unique tool developed by psychologists and educators to help you practice daily meditation and mindfulness exercises.

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

Be Kind Online teaches students how to be activists that work to combat social isolation online.

A YouTube playlist of videos from the television series where characters help each other identify and discuss their emotions.

A playlist of selected videos from the popular television series where characters teach each other meditative skills in a kid-friendly format.

Videos and resources for clients in isolation to decrease PTSD and increase Post Traumatic Growth created by Dr. Russ Harris.

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

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

Help your child with their emotional and mental wellness.

Dr. Bruce Perry speaks with Oprah on Apple + about stress, distress and trauma.

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

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