Mental Health & Wellness REsources

National PTA Healthy MindS

sponsored by the New York Life Foundation and The Allstate Foundation

Offered by Middlebrook PTA, Wilton High School PTSA, Wilton Public Schools

Healthy Minds 101

Goals:

Discuss the difference between mental health and mental illness, and the factors that influence both.
Explore ways families can prioritize mental health together.
Review what mental health supports and services are available to families

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PTA Healthy Minds: Building Social and Emotional Skills at Home

Goals:
Discover what social and emotional learning is and why it’s important
Learn about key social and emotional skills and how to foster their development in family life
Reflect on our own family lives, how this lens already fits in, and ways in which we can use it to enhance our support of all family members
Discuss with and learn from one another creating a safe, supportive learning community

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Building Resilience

Goals:

Explore examples of adversity.
Discuss what resilience is and is not, and why it is important.
3.Practice ways you as parents and caregivers can help children in your lives build resilience.

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Recommendations from WPS for further exploration

Books, websites, VIDEOS, APPS, and MORE

Carol Dweck, Mindset

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

Growth Mindset

Developing a Growth Mindset

Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents

With anxiety at epidemic levels among our children, Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents offers a contrarian yet effective approach to help children and teens push through their fears, worries, and phobias to ultimately become more resilient, independent, and happy

How to Raise an Adult

Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large.

How to Raise Successful Kids -- Without Over-Parenting | Julie Lythcott-Haims | TED

Watch this video and others from Julie Lythcott Haims Videos

Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence.

The Explosive Child

Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field.

Lives in the Balance - Dr. Ross Greene's website

WHERE COMPASSION AND SCIENCE INTERSECT
Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) is the evidence-based, trauma-informed, neurodiversity affirming model of care that helps caregivers focus on identifying the problems that are causing concerning behaviors in kids and solving those problems collaboratively and proactively.

Chores & Allowance Bot

Manage your children's chores, allowances, and savings goals

DBT Skills in Schools: Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) (The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series)

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills have been demonstrated to be effective in helping adolescents manage difficult emotional situations, cope with stress, and make better decisions. From leading experts in DBT and school-based interventions, this unique manual offers the first nonclinical application of DBT skills. The book presents an innovative social–emotional learning curriculum designed to be taught at the universal level in grades 6–12. Explicit instructions for teaching the skills--mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness--are provided in 30 lesson plans, complete with numerous reproducible tools: 99 handouts, a diary card, and three student tests. The large-size format facilitates photocopying; purchasers also get access to a webpage where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

LOCAL RESOURCES

Local organizations and service providers

Wilton Youth Services

Wilton Youth Services tends to the social, emotional, and behavioural needs of Wilton’s young people. It provides information on all things child-related, referrals, consultation with parents and professionals, case management, problem assessment, and counseling services.

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The Hub

The Hub is the state-designated Regional Behavioral Health Action Organization (RBHAO) serving Southwest Connecticut. It’s a regional resource supporting and coordinating mental health, suicide awareness, substance use prevention and problem gambling efforts in the 14 communities from Greenwich through Greater Bridgeport. It supports local prevention councils to prevent substance use and promote mental health, and brings consumers and providers together to identify needs and recommendations in treatment and recovery systems.

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Turning Point CT

TurningPointCT.org was developed by young people in Connecticut who are in recovery from mental health and substance use issues. While we’re not clinicians, we know what it’s like to feel alone, stressed, worried, sad, and angry. We’ve lived through the ups and downs of self-harm, drugs and alcohol, and the struggle to find help. Fortunately, we found what worked for us. Our goal is to provide information and support to help you choose your path so that you don’t have to struggle the way we did. Our mission is to empower teens and young adults in their search for emotional and mental health. Our website will help you understand your options and learn how to navigate the behavioral health system:

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