Mental Health and Well-Being Practices
CDC Back-to-School Digital Toolkit: Check out this toolkit with social media posts and graphics to help promote health and well-being as students head back to school.
How to Help Teens Manage Anxiety and Depression: A webinar training produced by Making Caring Common for parents, educators, and community adults to support the mental health of teens in their lives.
Understanding the connection between cellphone use to mental health of students: Read this Summary, Access the Podcast Interview, Parent Communication Resources & More
Promoting Mental Health and Well-being in Schools: The action guide describes six in-school strategies that are proven to promote and support mental health and well-being. For each strategy, the guide also describes approaches, or specific ways to put the strategy into action, and examples of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices.
Beginning of the Year Relationship Building Toolkit: This strategy guide for educators provides supports to help build thoughtful and trusting relationships at the beginning of the year.
Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA): This training is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including AD/HD), and eating disorders. For more information, go to: https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/. For Vermont training information, write to: [email protected].
teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA): Teaches teens in grades 10-12, or ages 15-18, how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among their friends and peers. For more information, go to: https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/. For Vermont training information, write to: [email protected].
UMatter for Schools Suicide Prevention: Umatter® Suicide Prevention Awareness and Skills Training Series offers stand-alone two-hour virtual live sessions to enhance knowledge, comfort, and skills to identify those at risk for suicide in your organization or community. Including resources to get help, Umatter® Suicide Prevention Awareness and Skills Training provides the fundamental knowledge to build a suicide prevention-aware community or workplace.
Inner Explorer: Cultivate the core competencies of SEL by teaching breathing and relaxation, understanding emotions, gratitude, focus, empathy, self-regulation, and more by using Inner Explorer.
Absenteeism Prevention and Intervention Resources: This Vermont PBIS webpage has a compilation of resources to support student engagement and prevent absenteeism.