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- Promoting Positive Mental Health During COVID-19
- Ideas for Coping Strategies
Ideas for coping strategies
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Virtual calming room
A website with links to virtual tools to use to help manage emotions. Options include sound and music; visual relaxation; guided breathing, relaxation, and movement; coloring and creating; live web cameras; and suggestions for smartphone apps.
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Mental health tips for teens by teens
A tip sheet put together by Children's Hospital Colorado's Youth Action Board with ideas for how teens can create "more caring, connective, and supporting environments for themselves and their peers."
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A kid's guide to coping with the pandemic
From NPR, an online and downloadable comic containing ideas for coping with the pandemic based on interviews with multiple mental health professionals.
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3 simple practices
From Breathe for Change - How-to instructions for three simple practices that can help reduce stress and enhance well-being.
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Keep calm and manage stress
From WHO, UNICEF, the CDC, and others - a one-page infographic with ideas and steps to take to keep calm and manage stress.
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How you and your kids can destress
From PBS - ideas for destressing with younger children; includes links to PBS KIDS videos.
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Ideas for taking care of yourself
From the National Child Traumatic Stress Network - a list of self-care strategies, organized around three basic aspects: awareness of how you are feeling, balance in all areas of your life, and connections with others.