Promoting Staff and Family Well-being
Explore resources designed to support the well-being of early care and education staff and the families they serve..
Promoting Children’s Social and Emotional Well-being
Explore these resources to learn more about ways to promote children’s social and emotional development and well-being.
Helping Your Child Cope After a Disaster
After a disaster or crisis, children benefit when adults assure them that they are safe and help them learn how to cope effectively. In this tip sheet, learn what to do to help a child after a disaster or crisis.
Children's Responses to Crises and Tragic Events
Children's Responses to Crises and Tragic Events
Understanding Stress and Resilience in Young Children
Ongoing research continues to show us how adversity and toxic stress in early childhood can have a negative impact throughout a person's life. Toxic stress can impact a child's health, behavior, and ability to learn. These videos appeal to Head Start staff and health care professionals. They are designed to help them understand what toxic stress is, what it does to a person, and easy things to do to help prevent it.
Promoting Resilience in Children, Families, Staff, and You!
Resilient people of all ages are better able to cope with stress, adversity, and change. This webinar focuses on the concept of resiliency. It offers practical ways to promote resilience in children, families, and staff.
Head Start Mental Health Services Newsletter: March 2017: Promoting Resilience
Early childhood is an important time to support young children’s resilience. Strong and comprehensive early childhood programs can help acknowledge and support resilience in children and families. In this issue, find resources that promote resilience in children and the adults who care for them.
Head Start Mental Health Services Newsletter: September 2016: Trauma, Toxic Stress, and Resilience
Head Start and Early Head Start, child care, and home visiting programs’ staff can play a key role in helping families across the country who are coping with traumatic events. During difficult times, early care and education and home visiting programs can offer needed support to help reduce stress. Programs can also promote children’s and families’ resilience. In this issue of the Mental Health Services newsletter, learn about ways to identify children and families who have experienced trauma. This issue also includes resources to help caregivers and families prevent toxic stress, build resilience, and cope with and heal from traumatic events.
Head Start Mental Health Services Newsletter: December 2016: Stress Reduction
Parents and staff in early care and education programs may experience a lot of stress. When caregivers feel stressed, young children are likely to absorb the stressed feelings of their caregivers. In this issue of the Mental Health Services Newsletter, learn more about resources designed to help reduce stress for adults and the children they care for.