. The 60-minute course covers these topics:
- Recognizing Stress in Adults, Teens and Children
- Practicing Mental Health First Aid
- Caring for Yourself
- Supporting Your Family
- Supporting Yourself and Coworkers at Work
Each student who completes the course will receive an American Red Cross Psychological First Aid: Supporting Yourself and Others During COVID-19 Online certificate that will be valid for 2 years.
How Right Now (Spanish version): Promotes, and seeks to strengthen, the emotional well-being and resiliency of populations adversely affected by COVID-19–related stress, grief, and loss. This on-line campaign offers a self-screening mechanism and provides information about various emotions (e.g., fear, anger, sadness, stress), resources that can help a person start a conversation about their feelings and concerns, discover what is helping others experiencing similar emotions, and other resources that can help. Support for the campaign is provided by the CDC Foundation in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. Available in English, too.
Suicide Prevention Resource Center - Schools: Outlines key strategies K-12 schools can use to take a comprehensive approach to help keep students safe. SAMHSA’s national Suicide Prevention Resource Center provides guidance and resources reflecting evidence-based best practices to: promote emotional well-being and connectedness among all students; identify students who may be at risk for suicide and assist them in getting help; and to be prepared to respond when a suicide death occurs.
Mental Health and Suicide Prevention: An Action Plan for Strengthening Mental Health and the Prevention of Suicide in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Presents six priorities and related actions developed by the steering committee of the Mental Health and Suicide Prevention National Response to COVID-19. The priority areas and related actions are directed toward those who can create change and implement lasting solutions, including federal and state policymakers, government agencies and non-profit organizations, health care accreditation organizations, professional associations, health care providers, and public and private payers.
Second Step COVID-19 Response: Resources for Educators and Families: Offers an extensive suite of curated resources for educational use by parents, families, and teachers with students managing learning impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each resource has been created by Committee for Children. Specific guidance is provided for Second Step® programming at the early learning, elementary and middle school levels, whether they are teaching remotely, in-person, or with a hybrid model. Second step meeting packs, tailored programming to address Community Rebuilding in the wake of extended school closures, bullying prevention and child protection units are provided.
Returning to School During and After Crisis: A Guide to Supporting States, Districts, Schools, Educators, and Students through a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Framework: Highlights resources to support the use of a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) framework to support students, families, and educators during the transitions back to school during and following the global pandemic, in a manner that prioritizes their health and safety, social and emotional needs, and behavioral and academic growth.
Childhood Grief (Resources): Presents a set of 15 resources intended to support children and families impacted by powerful, overwhelming and often confusing emotions associated with the death of someone close to them or substance abuse in their family.
Psychological Effects of Quarantine During the Coronavirus Outbreak: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know: Introduces foreseeable psychological effects of quarantine, added with strategies for how healthcare providers (including school-based counselors, nurses and school social workers) can implement care for their students’/patients’ and their own mental well-being during periods of quarantine.
COVID-19 Resource Guide for Students, Teens, a