Recently, school counselor Ashley Dwyer spoke at a PTA meeting about Supporting Students’ Mental Health at Home.

Her full presentation can be found here.

She also provided the following resources for parents:

• Jennifer Miller: Confident Parents Confident Kids Blog
  • Blog about how family members can support social emotional development at home, and recent posts provide a range of quality resources and ideas for supporting SEL during school closures
• Harvard Graduate School of Education: Caring for Preschoolers at Home
  • Guidance for creating structure and routine and developing social and emotional skills while preschool-aged children are staying home
• 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
• ​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
• ​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
• ​FCPS Mental Health & Wellness Conference

  • Seminars coming up the rest of this week on topics such as mindfuless, fostering resilience, and making self-care actionable

• FCPS Healthy Minds Podcast

  • Recent podcasts about executive functioning, coping with uncertainty