The Mental Health Minute
January 14, 2022
From the CFISD Mental Health Intervention Team
Providing mental health information, resources and self care tips!
From the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
Every child’s path to adulthood—reaching developmental and emotional milestones, learning healthy social skills, and dealing with problems—is different and difficult. Many face added challenges along the way, often beyond their control. There’s no map, and the road is never straight. But the challenges today’s generation of young people face are unprecedented and uniquely hard to navigate. And the effect these challenges have had on their mental health is devastating.
The U.S. Surgeon General Advisory
Protecting Youth Mental Health: We can take action! What we can do.
Find Your Words
Find Your Words by Kaiser Permanente is designed to make it easier to open up about mental health and empower more people to ask for help, take action to help themselves, and support others.
Help Your Kids Find Their Words | Kaiser Permanente
Introduction to Tools for Supporting Emotional Wellbeing in Children and Youth
Tools for supporting emotional wellbeing in children and youth
While fewer children and youth have been sick with COVID-19 compared to adults, the COVID-19 pandemic has still had a major impact on their lives. Though typically resilient to everyday stressors, children and youth are dealing with new challenges due to COVID-19, like social distancing, changes to their routines, and a lost sense of security and safety, making them especially vulnerable to feeling stressed, anxious, or depressed.
Tools for supporting emotional wellbeing
The tools on this webpage were created to teach skills that can help children and youth cope with some of the challenges associated with the pandemic.
SAMHSA Tips for Teens
Check out SAMHSA's Tips for Teens series designed to help teens learn more about various substances and their harmful effects.
Teen Brain Development
Partnership to End Addiction
Substance use and addiction affects more than 20 million Americans. Together with our many supporters, we are helping families find answers
US Drug Enforcement Administration
Knowledge is power. Browse information on different types of drugs, their street names, how they're used, and how they affect the body so you're better equipped to have the courageous conversation about substance use and addiction.