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COVID-19 RESOURCES
Dealing with Anxiety & Depression During a Pandemic
- CDC on Managing Stress & Anxiety
- Taking Care of your Behavioral Health During an Infectious Disease Outbreak
- Managing Stress Associated with COVID-19 (VA)
- How To Protect Your Mental Health During The Coronavirus Pandemic, According To Psychologists (Forbes)
- How to take care of your mental health during a pandemic (CNN)
- Resources for Supporting Children’s Emotional Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- How to get past the coronavirus crisis without losing your mental health
- APA Podcast Speaking of Psychology: Episodes on Coronavirus Anxiety (Episode 1 and Episode 2)
- Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families Cope with Coronavirus Disease
- Videos:
Parenting During COVID-19
- NYU/Langone’s Parent’s Guide to Meeting the Challenge During COVID-19 - one of the best resources we have found with information about how to handle home-school, parenting stress, helping kids adapt to changes in their routine, how to talk to them about COVID, and much more!
- COVID-19: What Parents Need To Know (Stanford Pediatrics)
- Ultimate Guide to Mental Health and Education Resources for Kids and Teens: For parents and therapists
- Thoughts on Managing Screen Time (NY Times)
Talking with Kids/Teens about COVID-19
- National Association of School Psychologist’s Guide for How to Talk to Kids re: COVID-19
- Talking with Children: Tips for caregivers, parents and teachers during COVID-19
- Covibook - an amazing coloring book that explains what COVID -19 is in language kids understand, and includes a coloring page about feelings.
- How to Talk to an Anxious Child/Teen about the Coronavirus
- Talking to tweens and teens about Coronavirus (NY Times)
- Resources explaining COVID-19/pandemics to Children (available in multiple languages)
- NPR has a great comic for kids explaining the virus (also in multiple languages)
Dealing with Distance Learning
- Advice related to maintaining IEP services and other educational information during COVID-19 (published by the Dept of Education and Office for Civil Rights)
- A good article from Disability Scoop that discusses special education during distance learning/COVID-19.
- Here is a fact sheet published by the Department of Education
- Here is a brief webinar released by Office of Civil Rights re: distance learning & COVID-19.
Caring for Older Family Members
- Well Connected: engages and connects people from the comfort of their own homes
- COVID-19 Guidance for Older Adults
- How To stay connected while intentionally isolated (Coalition to End Social Isolation & Loneliness)
- Caring for Older Adult’s Mental Health
- Tools & Resources for Working with Older Adults (GeroCentral)
FIND YOUR JOY
Meditation
Find Your Joy / Activities
Mindfulness for Kids
- Headspace
- Insight Meditation Center - Live meditations, instruction, Special COVID-19 Programs
- InsightLA Meditation. Online mindfulness classes and events (also in Spanish).
- Calm.com: daily calming meditations, sleep meditations, stories, music, meditations for kids
- Mindfulness Daily - Create a Life-Changing Meditation Practice in Less Than 15 Minutes a Day
- UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness Audio & Videos
- UCLA Guided Meditations (some in Spanish)
- Day One Journal App: award-winning gratitude app that helps you develop gratitude and mindfulness habits .
Mindfulness for Kids
Find Your Joy / Activities
Mindfulness for Kids
Find Your Joy / Activities
Find Your Joy / Activities
Find Your Joy / Activities
- Printable Coloring Sheets from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
- Boredom Busters: 110 Fun At-Home Activities for Families & Kids
- 200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More
- Live-Stream the Northern Lights
- Stream Opera from the Met Opera in NYC
- Metropolitan Opera nightly encore shows
- Broadway Plays and Musicals
- Kennedy Center Digital Stage
- LA Theater Works
Exercise
Exercise for Kids
Find Your Joy / Activities
- NY Times/Columbia University Medical Center: Benefits of Exercise on Mood (4/8/20)
- Peloton - Offering 90 day free access to their app. Wide range of workouts (yoga, meditation, strength, cycling, running)
- Pure Barre On Demand (offering a 60 day free trial); Click on the link for a 30 day trial, start, and put in promo code: EXTENDEDTRIAL - it extends trial from 30 to 60 days and puts fee to $0.
- Core Power Yoga - Free online sessions
- Johnson & Johnson 7 minute workout app is free and has lots of exercises for all fitness levels that don't require any equipment.
Exercise for Kids
Exercise for Kids
Exercise for Kids
Virtual Tours
Exercise for Kids
Exercise for Kids
- Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China
- Virtual Tour of the Carlsbad Caverns, NM
- Virtual Tours: Great wall of china, pyramids, museums, zoos, aquariums, live webcams
- Free virtual museum tours
- Animals/Home Safari Resources
- San Diego Zoo animal cams
Learn Something New
Learn Something New
Learn Something New
- Open Culture offers 1,500 free online courses from top universities
- Coursera.org offers free online courses, skills, degrees in association with 190+ universities
- edx.org