ith stress during an infectious disease outbreak. This SAMHSA fact sheet describes common signs of stress and how to recognize when to get help.
Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress: Provides participants with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to understand and manage their emotions and those of their students. This free, 10-hour online course, developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, is designed for school staff, including teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors, principals, and non-teaching staff in pre-K-12 schools.
Taking Care of Yourself: Offers a list of best practices individuals can utilize in maintaining awareness, finding balance, and connecting after difficult events. This self-care guidance reflects the expert perspective of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Taking Care of Your Behavioral Health During an Infectious Disease Outbreak (en Español): Describes feelings and thoughts individuals may have during and after social distancing, quarantine and isolation. This SAMHSA tip sheet suggests ways to care for one’s own behavioral health in these circumstances and provides resources for more help.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and Crisis Response Practice Guide (North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction): Serves as a resource to support the social-emotional needs of staff and students during school closures and in planning for re-opening. Six major recommendations address crisis response and social emotional learning (SEL) that can be implemented when schools are closed. Recommendation #7 focuses on key SEL strategies that support safe and compassionate re-entry for students and staff when brick-and-mortar instruction resumes. Key information resources and tools are linked to each of the seven recommendations.
FACT SHEET: In One Year of the Biden-Harris Administration, the U.S. Department of Education Has Helped Schools Safely Reopen and Meet Students' Needs: Chronicles the US Department of Education [ED]’s top 10 accomplishments supporting students’ safe return to in-person learning. Topping the list: 95% of public K-12 schools are now open for full-time in-person learning (up from 46% a year ago); and investments of $122-billion in American Rescue Plan funding for K-12 schools, and $40-billion to over 5,000 higher education institutions. The fact sheet summaries link to more detailed primary sources; and concludes, “As 2022 begins, ED remains committed to delivering necessary supports to our schools, students, and teachers, while continuing to advance President Biden’s vision of building our education system back better than before the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers: Presents President Biden’s 1/21/21 Executive Order 14000 to ensure that students receive a high-quality education during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and to support the safe reopening and continued operation of schools, child care providers, Head Start programs, and institutions of higher education. Click here for .pdf copy of the full executive order, published in the Federal Register 1/26/21.
National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness: Outlines the Administration's January 2021 actionable plan, across the federal government, to address the COVID-19 pandemic, including twelve initial executive actions issued by President Biden.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Provides the latest updates on the national pandemic situation, including guidance for how to protect individual health and reduce virus transmission, updates to scientific data that serves as a basis for CDC guidance, extensive information about COVID-19 vaccines, state-specific data and links to public health websites, and information resources for specific audiences including healthcare professionals and facilities, families, child care and school settings.
Changing Age Distribution of the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, May-August 2020: Shares age trends for COVID-19 during May–August 2020 for 50 states and the