Resources for Families/Caregivers

American Academy of Pediatrics List of Resources 2024: This spreadsheet is filled with resources, articles, and tips to help families/caregivers support children and teens.

How Can Parents Help Kids with Mental Health? This is a broadcast of National Public Radio’s Here & Now with Rick Weissbourd about the importance of family mental health. 

AAP Stress & Anxiety Relief Through Healthy Relationships: Focusing on what’s right with a child or teenager’s mental health can go a long way to combating stress and anxiety. By building strong, healthy relationships, parents and other caregivers can help make sure children and teens grow up resilient and minimize the effects of toxic stress. In this video by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Heather Forkey describes the idea of relational health and how it can combat toxic stress – things like trauma, child abuse, or even the long-term effects of racism. 

Strategies and Practical Tips for Anxiety and Depression: Developed by Making Caring Common, this one-page document highlights 5 tips to promote your teen’s mental health. 

Education Now/Understanding the Relationship Between Parent and Teen Mental Health: Posted at Making Caring Common, this episode of HGSE’s Education Now convened three experts to explore strategies to better support the mental well-being of parents and caregivers, with a view to preventing anxiety and depression in adolescents.

Caring for the Caregivers: The Critical Link Between Parent and Teen Mental Health: This report, produced by Making Caring Common, suggests that Parents’ and teens’ emotional health is deeply interwoven, and data indicate that parents are suffering anxiety and depression at about the same rates as teens. The report also offers five strategies for mitigating these emotional troubles in parents, guiding parents in knowing and providing vital emotional support to their teens, reducing the harmful impact of parental depression and anxiety on teens, and heading off damaging parent-teen dynamics. 

How can I support you? A teen mental health primer: This document, produced by Making Caring Common, provides information to help parents and other family members understand possible red flags and begin important conversations about mental health.