By now, you likely have a go-to coping mechanism for when stress, anxiety and problems arise in your life. Hopefully your coping skills are on the healthy side of the spectrum, such as: seeking comfort from the ones you love, getting those endorphins flowing with some exercise, writing in a journal, or meditating.  No matter what you do to deal with stress, everyone can use a little extra support in handling life’s challenges – and one way to get it is through talking with the school counselor.

When social distancing, staying at home and remote learning has become the new “norm”, adjusting can pose challenges, increase anxiety and stress. I am here to help!

• Counselor’s Corner Kindness Challenge January 2021
• Community Resources for Mental Wellness Tricounty
• Resources_ COVID Mental Health Support and Parent Resources 2021
• Sources of Strength- Resource and Strength Based Activities for the Holidays
• Circle of Parents in Recovery (Pinon Project Virtual Support Group)
• Educator Resilience and Trauma-Informed Self-Care
• Parent Support Group, Approaching Difficult Conversations
• Holidays During the Pandemic
• Anger Management
• Local Therapist Referral List
• The Art of Resilience
• Our Little Heroes
• CTC Summer Youth Project_Details
• Summer Youth Project_Permission
• May is Mental Health Awareness Month
• Adapting to and Embracing Change and the New Normal
• AXIS Support Offerings 4/15/2020
• The Power of Music to Reduce Stress
• Self Care
• Coping with Grief and Loss
• Shower Meditation
• If You or Someone you know needs Support
• Boredom Busters
• What I Can Control
• Ideas to Help Reduce Anxiety
• Do you feel like you might be having an anxiety attack?
• Coronavirus Anxiety
• Solution to Save Your Sanity
• Surviving the transition to Remote Learning
• Medicine Horse: R U Aware

These handouts are educational in nature and a reference for older students and adults.  There is a lot of information crammed onto one page.  Hopefully they will be self explanatory, but feel free to call or make an appointment with me for further explanation and discussion.  Sometimes these are complex principles that are being simplified for elementary age children.  Oftentimes, as Dr. Martin Seligman has taught, even though they have memorized the principles they won’t fully understand until they are developmentally able.  Still, learning them sooner will also help them see that the principles work and they will consequently develop sooner!!

• Steps to Make and Keep Friends
• Steps to Handle Bullying
• Resilience

You will find they are helpful for adults and children alike.  The whole family will benefit.

Great book/article and website references for your study that will explain the lessons are as follows:

• The Optimistic Child:  Dr. Martin Seligman
• Bullying at School:  Dr. Dan Olweus
• Love is Greater than Hate:  Dr. Brooks Gibbs
• The Development of Children’s Friendships:  Dr. John Gottman
• Think Social:  Michelle Garcia Winner
• Threatened Egotism:  Dr. Roy Baumeister (article link:  http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/hortonr/articles%20for%20class/Bushman%20and%20Baumeister.pdf)
  Theory of Moral Development: Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg (website link:  https://www.britannica.com/science/Lawrence-Kohlbergs-stages-of-moral-development)
• Theory of Human Motivation:  Dr. Abraham Maslow

• Circle K Ranch Brave Horse Kids (click here for brochure) (www.ckranch.com/changing-lives)
• Click <here> to view an Extensive List of Montezuma Country Resources
• Mental Health and Wellness Resource
• Generation Schools COVID-19 Resources Click Here
• From Axis Health: Teacher and Parent Wellness Coaching
• From Axis Health: Parent Q-A What to do When Kids Sense Something is Wrong
• The HUB – https://healthyschoolshub.org/
• Taproot Learning & EmbraceSEL – https://www.camptimber.com/SELDistanceLearning
• Health & Wellness SHPG resources – https://www.cde.state.co.us/healthandwellness/shpg-instructionalresources
• Colorado Crisis Services: CCS provide free, confidential, professional and immediate support for any mental health, substance use or emotional concern, 24/7/365. Call 1-844-493-TALK (8255) or text TALK to 38255 to speak to a trained professional. https://coloradocrisisservices.org/#intro5.       Crisis Text Line: Crisis Text Line is free, 24/7 support for those in crisis. Text 741741 from anywhere in the US to text with a trained Crisis Counselor. They also have a list of resources on different topics at https://www.crisistextline.org/referrals
• 99 Coping Skills: https://www.yourlifeyourvoice.org/pages/tip-99-coping-skills.aspx  
• MindUP: Based firmly in neuroscience, MindUP teaches the skills and knowledge children need to regulate their stress and emotion, form positive relationships, and act with kindness and compassion. https://mindup.org/
• American Association of Suicidology: has information available on national statistics, trainings, resources for loss & attempted survivors. https://suicidology.org/
• CASEL –  https://casel.org
• ASCD – http://www.ascd.org/Default.aspx
• Center for School Mental Health – http://www.schoolmentalhealth.org/index.html
• ASHA – American School Health Association – http://www.ashaweb.org