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Mental Health America (MHA): This is a screening tool that gives you a quick snapshot of your mental health.
Mental Health America (MHA): This site shares signs and symptoms, facts, statistics, and the latest news on mental health.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): This page covers mental health basics and helps you know what to look for.
Child Mind Institute: Information tailored for educators on how to identify and respond to children with signs of a mental or learning disorder.
Mental Health California: An innovative digital magazine featuring mental health topics. They also provide education and awareness campaigns, and present community forums and special events.
Headspace: An app that provides instructional videos and guided meditations to support emotional well-being. This app is free for educators.
InsightTimer: A free meditation app with a diverse array of meditation styles.
Liberate: A safe space for the Black community to develop a daily meditation habit.
The Local Optimist: A mental health resource by Madhappy featuring research-backed toolkits, vulnerable personal essays and interviews, and in-person and virtual events that aims to make conversations about mental health easier and help everyone prioritize their well-being.
Berkeley Greater Good: Science-backed exercises to improve wellbeing and happiness, as well as a suite of resources such as podcasts, videos, and quizzes.
Pinterest Well-Being: A collection of short (<5 minutes) evidence-based exercises to help you with stress – developed with the Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation.
coa: Therapist led emotional fitness classes as well as one on one online therapy services.
Therapy for Black Girls: Online space to promote mental wellness in Black women and girls, providing therapy resources and educational materials.
Talkspace: This organization offers a wide range of mental health service options (text, live video, and phone) provided by professional counselors. The organization has specific support available for teenagers.
Most of the time, your role will be to stay present with your students as they share their creative work, and to make a connection with your own story if a genuine connection exists. Encourage students to reach out to a school counselor if they are seeking additional support. School counselors can refer them to mental health professionals. In addition, here is a list of links below that can provide additional support to your students.
Mental Health America (MHA): This is a screening tool that gives you a quick snapshot of your mental health.
ULifeline: An online resource specific to college mental health, containing information about mental health disorders and a self-evaluator tool.
Morgan’s Message: A non-profit for student athletes that amplifies stories, resources, and expertise to confront mental health, builds a community by and for athletes, and provides a platform for advocacy.
Mental Health America (MHA): This site shares signs and symptoms, facts, statistics, and the latest news on mental health.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): This page covers mental health basics and helps you know what to look for.
Stand for All: An online program offering remote coaching support designed to teach skills and strategies to address common issues like low mood, worry, poor sleep, panic and discomfort around others. Courses are self-paced and can be taken anonymously.
National Institute on Drug Abuse: A project of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this website is written for a teen audience and provides videos and animations as well as science-based activities that support youth in learning more about the way drugs affect the brain and body.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration: A website from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that aims to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities by sharing information on finding treatment, evidence-based resources, free programs and helplines.
InsightTimer: A free meditation app with a diverse array of meditation styles.
Liberate: A safe space for the Black community to develop a daily meditation habit.
Berkeley Greater Good: Science-backed exercises to improve wellbeing and happiness, as well as a suite of resources such as podcasts, videos, and quizzes.
Pinterest Well-Being: A collection of short (<5 minutes) evidence-based exercises to help you with stress – developed with the Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation.
Stand for All: An online program offering remote coaching support designed to teach skills and strategies to address common issues like low mood, worry, poor sleep, panic and discomfort around others. Courses are self-paced and can be taken anonymously.
MindDoc: An app that will support individuals in reflecting and monitoring their thoughts and moods.
Thriveworks: This website features an extensive directory of therapists who specialize in working with children and adolescents. It has both in-person and online counseling options while maintaining the services at an affordable price.
Therapy for Black Girls: Online space to promote mental wellness in Black women and girls, providing therapy resources and educational materials.
Talkspace: This organization offers a wide range of mental health service options (text, live video, and phone) provided by professional counselors. The organization has specific support available for teenagers.
There are times when you may need to intervene in a more urgent, direct way rather than simply referring students to online counseling or an online resource. If a student poses a danger to him or herself or to another person, then immediate action should be taken.
