HCS Counselors' Corner
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Supporting Families During School Closure
HCS Remote Learning: Never stop Learning
https://sites.google.com/henry.k12.ga.us/henryremotelearning/home
Georgia Crisis and Access Line
GCAL is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year to help you or someone you care for in a crisis. GCAL professionals will:
- Provide telephonic crisis intervention services
- Dispatch mobile crisis teams
- Assist individuals in finding an open crisis or detox bed across the State
- Link individuals with urgent appointment services
Suicide Prevention LifeLine
Crisis Text Line
Social Emotional Lessons and Resources
Students can watch and respond to movies aligned with social emotional learning components. Students can interact with the movies by taking a quiz, creating a concept map, creating their own BrainPOP movie as well as other activities attached with each movie. The Health section of BrainPOP has been renamed Health and SEL to help counselors easily find the materials.
Minecraft – Social-Emotional Learning Worlds available: http://msft.it/6019TkgQP
The game students love now has social-emotional learning lessons and worlds available. Students can access these worlds and experience engaging lessons on different aspects of social emotional learning.
As the country and the world responds to COVID-19, CASEL urges continued focus on the social emotional need of children and adults. Because children spend a significant amount of their time in schools, educators play a critical role in shaping how they understand and experience what's going on in the world. The resources above are designed to to support educators, parents and anyone who works with children.
The Sanford Harmony Online Learning Portal provides PreK-6th grade educators with everything they need to successfully integrate Harmonys’ social-emotional learning program into the classroom, including training, lessons, activities, videos, stories, games, and songs.
Virtual College Touring (Click on the picture below for database)
How to Talk to Your Child about COVID-19
There are so many things out of our control right now, but one thing you can control is communication with your child. If you’re being flooded with information about this international pandemic, you’re not the only one feeling stressed or confused. Here are some tips for talking with your young child, teen or even young adult about the COVID-19.
Guaranteed to be relaxing and fun! Check out the Mindfulness activities below.
Henry County School Counselors
Website: www.henry.k12.ga.us
Location: 33 North Zack Hinton Parkway, McDonough, GA, USA
Twitter: @HCS_Counselors