Resource: Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
Among the numerous organizations that observe Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month each February, Love is Respect is one; its Youth Council chose as the 2024 theme Love Like That.
Resource: Love Is Respect
Love is Respect is an online resource for older teens and young adults. Its primary focus is on intimate partner relationships with emphasis on “being on the same page” with one’s partner regarding definitions, boundaries and consent, “an ongoing mutual agreement between partners about what they want to experience.”
EverFi Character Playbook: Building Healthy Relationships
Character Playbook is a digital course, sponsored by the NFL, that teaches students how to establish healthy relationships with their peers and navigate complex social interactions.
Resource: Teen Health Hub WA
The Washington State Department of Health has recently published a new webpage, Teen Health Hub WA, or The Hub. Created by the Department of Health Adolescent and Young Adult Health Team, in consultation with teens and young adults in Washington State, including a dedicated Youth Advisory Board, the page is designed for continuous expansion.
How Do Hobbies Help Mental Health?
Whether through involvement in extracurricular student groups, in-school enrichment opportunities, or classes such as art and shop, students can benefit greatly from learning skills that are applicable to hobbies at home – both now while they are in school and in their futures as adults.
Video: Explained to Kids – Mental Health, Mind and Heart Wellness
This video would be great to share with children in elementary grades and their parents! Explained to Kids: Mental Health, Mind & Heart Wellness, from Shandy Clinic, is only one minute and thirty seconds in length. Its approach is positive and prevention-oriented.
35 Tips for Dealing With Difficult Family Members During the Holidays
The article, 35 Tips for Dealing With Difficult Family Members During the Holidays, written by Melissa Boudin, PsyD and reviewed by Kristen Fuller, MD, was published by Choosing Therapy on October 17, 2023. We have listed the 35 tips shared by the authors, and hope you will visit Choosing Therapy to read the expansion of each for yourself.
Holiday Stress Reduction Strategies
By combining advice from the American Psychiatric Association and the Mayo Clinic Health System, we have generated the following list of holiday stress reduction strategies you might use yourself and encourage your parents and older students to use.
Video: Reducing Holiday Stress in Kids
This video, Reducing Holiday Stress in Kids, two minutes and sixteen seconds in length, from Eugene Pediatric Associates, would be great to share with parents of your students!