Parent Toolbox – General Support
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| wdt_ID | Resources | Web Links | Description/Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JFCS Center for Children and Youth - Services for Families | https://ccy.jfcs.org/services-for-families/ | The Center for Children and Youth is a division of Jewish Family and Children Services. The Center provides many valuable services for parents (babies to teens) - from developmental guidance and parenting classes, parenting consultations and coaching, workshops, assessments and evaluations, to actual counseling services. |
| 2 | Challenge Success Resource Center | https://challengesuccess.org/resources/?_sft_audience=parent&_sft_members_only=for-all | The Challenge Success Resource Center includes articles, tools, and videos from a host of psychologists, leading experts, and students; provides parents with research-based strategies for handling topics such as college admissions, student well-being, homework, AP courses, and balancing schedules. |
| 3 | Connect Safely: Parent Guides | https://www.connectsafely.org/parentguides/ | Connect Safely focuses on safety, privacy, security and digital wellness. An excellent overall resource on social media, Connect Safely includes a parent section on their website - providing a number of valuable guidebooks, articles, and insights - designed to help parents understand the challenges and benefits of social media and successfully manage social media's impact as a family. |
| 4 | ReachOut.com | https://parents.au.reachout.com | Australian-based resource focused on Teen Mental Health that can be broadly applied for parents in all cultures. "For Parents" section addresses many common concerns about teenagers (e.g., social media, anxiety/depression, stress, peer pressure, coping skills, etc.) and has parent skill-building exercises and a searchable parent forum section. |
| 5 | Making Caring Common Project | https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/resources-for-families | Harvard University's "Making Caring Common" project encourages parents to raise children who care about the common good and emphasizes the use of morals and ethics in decision-making. |
| 6 | SAMHSA Parent & Caregiver Resources | https://www.samhsa.gov/talk-they-hear-you/parent-resources | The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration "Parent & Caregiver Resource" section contains useful information about substance use prevention and how to effectively communicate the risks of substance use, and open the conversation with their child. |
| 7 | Stopbullying.gov | https://www.stopbullying.gov | Stopbullying.gov is home to a multitude of articles and modules for parents to learn more about various forms of bullying, how to talk about it, how to help your child, what schools can do, what students can do, etc. |
| 8 | Bright Futures: What To Expect and When To Seek Help (AGES 5–10 YEARS) | https://www.brightfutures.org/tools/BFtoolsMC.pdf | Brief but thorough developmental checklists of expected behaviors in middle childhood (Age 5 - 10). Designed to engage parents and their child's medical providers, the checklists can be helpful as a parenting tool as well - to better understand when a child's behavior is inside or outside of the expected range (and when to seek help). |
| 9 | Bright Futures: What To Expect and When To Seek Help (AGES 11–21 YEARS) | https://www.brightfutures.org/tools/BFtoolsAD.pdf | Brief but thorough developmental checklists of expected behaviors in adolescence (age 11 - 21). Designed to engage parents and their child's medical providers, the checklists can be helpful as a parenting tool as well - to better understand when a child's behavior is inside or outside of the expected range (and when to seek help). |
| 10 | Bright Futures: What To Expect and When To Seek Help (AGES 5–10 YEARS) in Spanish | https://www.brightfutures.org/tools/BFtoolsMC_SP.pdf | Brief but thorough developmental checklists of expected behaviors in middle childhood (Age 5 - 10). Designed to engage parents and their child's medical providers, the checklists can be helpful as a parenting tool as well - to better understand when a child's behavior is inside or outside of the expected range (and when to seek help). |
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