• Supplemental Counseling Resources for Parents and Families

    These websites can provide ideas and strategies to find resources, help children cope and navigate the stress and anxiety they may be currently feeling.  Students can learn, internalize, utilize coping skills and resilience through conversations with adults.

     

    Alaska 211

    No matter where you live in Alaska, 2-1-1 is your one-stop resource for connecting with a wide variety of services in your community

     

    Helping our students with life’s stress (Scholastic)

    Find out why and what to do if you see signs of anxiety in your child.

     

    10 Ways to Help Kids Who May Struggle with Anxiety (Teachers)

    Trouble concentrating. An upset stomach. Sleeplessness.  Anxiety can show up in a lot of ways and present challenges that students face in their lives today.  Yet, it can also be one of the most hidden and unknown.

     

    Talking to Kids About Coronavirus (Child Mind Instutute)

    Kids worry more when they’re kept in the dark.

     

    *Some things everyone can do today

     

    Don’t forget, kindness matters…a lot

    Professionals, relatives, friends, they will all tell us…the best, easiest, fastest, least expensive and most sincere way to feel better is to do something kind for ourselves or someone else.

     

    Other activities to engage your child in to provide structure and learning opportunities each day include:

     

    15 books written for students that may help during anxious times (grades PreK – 6):

     

    You tube videos that speak to and help students with stress and anxiety (you can “Skip Ads”)

     

     

     

     

  • Activities for Students 

    Go somewhere…virtual traveling

    Virtual tours of museums, zoos, aquariums, and more.  Children can find great peace and comfort in healthy imagination and regulated exploration.

     

    Social Emotional Activities (Teachers Pay Teachers & other sources)

    A SEL Packet to have at home that addresses resolving anxiety and develops better managed coping skills.  Includes websites and links to many other resources you may want to share with your kids.

     

    Centervention: Social Emotional Learning Activities

    The Centervention website provides students opportunities to practice and gain awareness by developing skills to manage anxiety & stress, fear, emotional regulation, empathy, impulse control, and social initiation.

     

    Using Grades K-6, resources / lessons, activities, and printables for students the following web-site links cover kid’s emotions that may come up before, or after, the anxiety he / she is feeling.  It’s important to take all their feelings seriously, listen carefully and try to help sort things out.

     

    You will also find a number of activities and other learning opportunities on “Centervention”.

     

    In the topics addressed, a number deal directly with, or are closely related to, the anxiety and stress our children are finding themselves struggling with.

     

     

    Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

    – written for a larger group…easy to adapt for one (or a few) kids

     

    3rd - 6th Grade

     

    Other activities to engage your child in to provide structure and learning opportunities each day include

     

    15 books written for students that may help during anxious times (grades PreK – 6):