Mental Health Resources
Self-Care:
- Caring For Our Minds - A Starting Point
- How to Find Hope Through Uncertainty
- Mental Health and Self-Care Program
- Strategies to Maintain Mental Health
- Tusker Cafe - The Power of Connection PPT / Storytelling Exercise (2025)
- Understanding Cognitive Distortions (Unhelpful thinking)
Support and Intervention:
- Confidential Release of Records
- Personal Stress Test
- Raising Mentally Strong Kids
- Recognize and Release Guided Exercise For Stress Reduction by Dr. Jennifer Simon
- Resources for Parents on a Wide Range of Family Concerns and Mental Health Disorders From the Child Mind Institute
- SCSD Tiers of Mental Health Support
- SHS ACT Mental Health Resources
- Talking to Children About Violence: Tips For Parents and Teachers
Understanding Anxiety and Depression:
- Anxiety & Depression Association of America
- Anxiety: Myth Vs. Reality
- Childhood Anxiety Treatment May Be Best Targeted at Parents (Research article)
- Everyday Anxiety Vs. Anxiety Disorders
- Helping Kids to Cope With Divorce
- Helping Kids With Anxiety - Coping Cats Parents
Loss, Death and Grief:
- Coalition to Support Grieving Students
- Helping Children Cope With Loss, Death, and Grief
- How to Talk With Kids About Terrible Things
- Signs of Depression and Difference Between Grief and Depression
- Speaking to Students About Death and Grief
Past Mental Health Presentations:
- SCSD 2019 Spring Wellness Night: Parenting in the Digital Age (K-12) (Video)
- SCSD 4th Annual Wellness Summit: Understanding Executive Functioning and ADHD
- SCSD 5th Annual Wellness Summit: Managing Distress Through Emotional Problem Solving
- Tusker U Family Focus, 6th Annual Wellness Summit: Resocialization and Reconnecting in the Age of Isolation and Social Media, plus informational slides
Suicide Prevention:
- Celebrities Share Thoughts on Mental Health (Video)
- The Truth About Suicide (Video)
The Truth About Suicide