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Fostering School Connectedness: Improving Student Health and Academic Achievement
This fact sheet answers questions about school connectedness and identifies strategies school districts and administrators can use to foster it among their students.
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Supporting grieving students during a pandemic
Coalition to Support Grieving Students
The current COVID-19 Pandemic has caused a large and expanding number of deaths in the United States and abroad, while also requiring the implementation of social distancing measures, including lengthy school closures, that makes it increasingly difficult to provide bereavement support to grieving students in the usual ways we relied upon prior to the pandemic.
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After a Loved One Dies
National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement
This guide reviews how children grieve and how parents and other caring adults can help them better understand and adjust to a death. The information this guide provides can help parents and adults who are part of the lives of children who have experienced a loss know what to expect and how to help.
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Vision for School and Student Success
Turnaround for Children
Knowledge from educational practice and research together clearly points towards a whole-child purpose as the driving force of school transformation, which is actualized through a set of systems, structures and practices that promote a supportive environment, developmental relationships and integrated academic, skill and mindset development for all students.
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Suicide Prevention Lifeline: We Can All Prevent Suicide
Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Understanding the issues concerning suicide and mental health is an important way to take part in suicide prevention, help others in crisis, and change the conversation around suicide.
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K-12 Toolkit for Mental Health Promotion & Suicide Prevention
Heard Alliance
This Toolkit was created in 2013 in response to school communities’ need to address student mental and emotional wellness in order to prevent suicide and to provide evidence based information about how to intervene in a crisis or after a suicide loss.
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Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools was funded by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to help high schools, school districts, and their partners design and implement strategies to prevent suicide and promote behavioral health among their students.
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LGBTQ cyberbullying: A guide for parents and educators
Comparitech Ltd
LGBTQ+ youth are at higher risk of being bullied online. This website discusses the issue, examines statistics and offers advice for parents and educators to help LGBTQ+ cyberbullying victims.
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Infant CPR Blog
InfantCPR.com
Blog with posts on child and infant safety, health and parenting tips
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Telehealth and Online Mental Health Resources During COVID-19 Pandemic
Sunshine Behavioral Health
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens not only health, life, and the economy. It threatens recovery from substance abuse. Resources for telehealth and online resources for families.
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How Drug and Alcohol Abuse Affects Family and Friends
Sunshine Behavioral Health
Drug abuse effects on family can be overwhelming, and even distressing. Addiction doesn’t just impact the person using drugs or alcohol. Every member of the family, from spouses, to parents, to children and siblings, are impacted in some way.
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COVID-19 Resource and Information Guide
NAMI
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has resulted in an unprecedented crisis that affects not only our physical health and daily lives, but also our mental health. To address these needs, NAMI is committed to providing credible information and resources to help people navigate through this crisis. In this guide, you will find answers to questions ranging from how to manage anxiety during this difficult time, to how to access medication while in quarantine, to how to deal with the loss of a loved one to COVID-19.