In commemoration of Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health America (MHA) sponsored the creation of the 2024 BIPOC Mental Health Toolkit.
This toolkit offers fact sheets, outreach ideas, sample newsletters, social media tools, and more to better support youth in our communities.
In commemoration of Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health America (MHA) sponsored the creation of the 2024 BIPOC Mental Health Toolkit.
This toolkit offers fact sheets, outreach ideas, sample newsletters, social media tools, and more to better support youth in our communities.
As we step into another school year, it remains crucial to recognize the mental health challenges our nation's school-age children face. Going back to school can be an exciting time filled with new friends, new social events, and new extracurriculars. But returning to school also means re-entering the virtual spaces that exist in tandem with the classroom – which can be both helpful and harmful. For young people, online spaces can bring with them feelings of exclusion, body image concerns, misinformation, cyberbullying, harassment, and violent content – all of which have an impact on mental health.
Mental Health America (MHA) is dedicated to providing quality resources that can be used to facilitate these kinds of conversations. Through this toolkit, we aim to equip you with the social media knowledge you need to support the young people in your life, whether that is as a parent, caregiver, teacher, coach, counselor, or school administrator.
Children's Funding Project offers communities who are implementing new voter-approved funding a toolkit for designing, operating, and evaluating programs. From creating a timeline to telling your programmatic-outcome story, this toolkit provides step-by-step guidance.
PFLAG has curated resources for those new to the conversation surrounding gender identity. These resources include national publications, online academies, books, films, and special topics.
To prepare and support communities as they participate in Trans Awareness Month (November), Advocates for Youth has prepared a toolkit with resources for immediate implementation. Resources include book lists, infographics, and video clips.
Anytime can be the right time to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). Explore our favorite winter-themed STEM experiments, engineering challenges, and demonstrations with these fun hands-on STEM activities from Science Buddies!
Are you ready for some puzzling puzzles? National Geographic Kids offers interactive digital puzzles to challenge the smartest minds. Need a brain break? This site offers you multiple options from which to choose!
MENTOR helps children by providing a public voice, developing and delivering resources to mentoring programs nationwide and by promoting quality for mentoring through standards, cutting-edge research and state of the art tools.
These art worksheets have been designed to print out on your computer's printer. If you're going to paint on the worksheet, it's recommended you check that the ink in your printer is waterproof and that you print it on a sheet of watercolor paper rather than normal printer paper.
As a product of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Spiral Art Education offers innovative curriculum as a part of their efforts to rethink art education in the 21st century.
Astsonia is a community of teachers who submit lesson plans that are designed to give other teachers ideas to use in the classroom.
Computer Science Education (CSEd) Week is an annual opportunity to advocate for computer science education for youth as well as celebrate the contributions made by those in the field. This resource, sponsored by Google, provides simple resources leading up to the week to engage youth in Computer Science.
Sponsored by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, this free resource is available to educators of elementary and secondary classrooms. Activities include individual and group-oriented worksheets, resources, webinars, and historical collections.
Waste Hero Education provides free lesson plans to achieve its aim of educating 1 million people by 2030 on zero waste, recycling, and the circular economy. Resources are available to empower children K-12 with the skills and knowledge to care for the planet.
This resource provided by the ACLU gives guidance to knowing your rights when questioned by law enforcement agencies and authorities. A copy of "My Rights Card" is available in this resource for use if needed. This resource is prepared in English.
This resource provided by the ACLU gives guidance to knowing your rights when questioned by law enforcement agencies and authorities. A copy of "My Rights Card" is available in this resource for use if needed. This resource is prepared in Spanish.
In celebration and honor of Native Heritage Month, the National Educational Association (NEA) offers year-round resources to share the narrative of Indigenous People groups.
Resources include lesson plan units for children grades Kindergarten through 12 that focus on history, accurate representation, Thanksgiving lesson plans from the Native American perspective, background resources, printables/posters, videos, and recommended readings. The curated collection is in partnership with organizations centered in social justice and advocacy.
NEA Note: "Educators should be mindful of cultural appropriation when teaching about other cultures and understand that Native American students in class may experience lessons differently than non-Native students."
A Native woman-led racial and social justice organization, IllumiNative has created free resources (in partnership with the National Indian Education Association and Amplifier) that increase the visibility of and challenge the negative narratives of Indigenous peoples.
Resources available include youth and adult publications centered in advocacy, awareness, and research. Lesson plans include remote learning opportunities that explore the work of Indigenous leaders and changemakers in digital tool formats for grades PreKindergarten through 8th grades.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) engages audiences in a community education program, Learning for Justice. This resource provides educators with free resources to encourage youth civic participation as well as to learn honest history, promote servant leadership, and move toward a racially and socially just society.
This collection of resources has been curated by SPLC to offer lessons for elementary and middle school classrooms that focus on elections and voting.