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    Adverse Childhood Experiences

    • Overview
    • Build a Sense of Community
    • Create a Sense of Purpose
    • Foster Relationships
    • Parenting Skills and Support
    • Problem-solving Skills and Self-regulation
    • Resiliency
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    Social and Emotional Health

    Social and emotional health is developing the capacity to form secure relationships, experience and regulate emotions, and explore and learn.

    DO

    • All Ages
      • Cook dinner or bake
      • Go on a hike
      • Lie on a blanket at night, and look at the stars
      • Make a gratitude jar. Add something each day that you are thankful for
      • Read a book together
      • Talk each day about something you are thankful for
    • Young Children
      • Create a treasure hunt
      • Fly kites
      • Jump in the leaves
      • Make a craft project

    READ

    • Adults
      • Anxiety disorders — Is it really all in your head?
      • Child abuse
      • How to Support Children After Their Parents Separate or Divorce
      • Infants have mental health needs, too
      • Managing Anxiety
      • Suicide prevention
    • Adults/Teens/Tweens
      • Anxiety & Depression in Children and Teens
      • Intervention: Helping a loved one overcome addiction
      • Teen Substance Abuse
      • Tips to help ease anxiety
      • Trauma Often Leads to Long-lasting Grief 
    • Teens/Tweens
      • Parents with addiction
      • Teenage depression: Prevention begins with parental support

    WATCH

    • All Ages
      • A very happy brain
      • Coping with incarceration
    • Adults
      • 5, 4, 3, 2, 1: Countdown to make anxiety blast off
      • A child's perspective of a traumatic experience
      • Addictive Personality Traits
      • Back to School: Know the Warning Signs of Bullying
      • Exploring Emotions
      • Families Find Hope
      • First Impressions: Exposure to Violence and a Child's Developing Brain 
      • Sesame Street: Behind the Scenes of "Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration"
      • Sesame Street: When Families Grieve: Exclusive Preview
    • Adults/Teens/Tweens
      • 5 signs your teenager is battling depression
      • How to comfort a grieving teen
      • I Had a Black Dog, His Name Was Depression
      • Lessons from the child of an addict
      • Overwhelmed by anxiety?
      • Trauma is irreversible. How it shapes us is our choice.
    • Teens/Tweens
      • Can't Go Home
      • Teen anxiety and depression
      • Teen suicide prevention
    • Young Children
      • Breathe, Balance, and Bend: The 3 B's of Calm Bodies
      • Helping Kids Grieve
      • Managing Worry and Anxiety for Kids
      • Sesame Street: Comfy-cozy nest
      • Sesame Street: Little Children, Big Challenges - Divorce - "It's Not Your Fault"
      • Sesame Street: Little Children, Big Challenges - Divorce - "What is Divorce?"
      • Sesame Street: Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration - Animation: Visiting Dad in Prison
      • Sing it out
      • The Protect Yourself Rules Ages 5-8
      • Traumatic experience

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