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Smarter, Safer Teens: Mental Health Lessons

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Smarter, Safer Teens: Mental Health Lessons

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Guided Lessons and Worksheets for Student Mental Health

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Tap into your personal power and be an advocate for change in your community! This program empowers students to use their voices to better protect themselves and others. Everyone has the right to be safe and speak up when they feel uncomfortable.

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Worksheets and activities around a variety of SEL topics

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Mylemarks | Therapy Resources For Kids and Teens

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Welcome to Mylemarks' Free Downloads Page!

Find dozens of FREE therapy worksheets and resources created exclusively for kids and teens!  Mylemarks provides interactive social-emotional tools to enhance your sessions and keep your clients engaged in the therapy process.  Below you will find practice resources to help your client work through issues related to anger, anxiety, bullying, social skills, and much more! ​

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Mental Health Handouts for Kids

ClassPaks (Classroom Guidance Presentations)

ClassPaks are ready-made, no prep classroom guidance presentations!  These packs include everything you need to educate and engage a group or class on a variety of social-emotional topics. ​ Find them all
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Included in each download:
- PowerPoint Show AND Google Slides presentation complete with colorful illustrations, animations, and transitions.
- Presenter Outline to use as a guide during presentation
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- Reproducible handout that corresponds with the ClassPak presentation

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Download is a .zip folder containing the resources. A program (such as WinZip) is required to extract and access the files. PowerPoint Shows require Microsoft PowerPoint to play and Google Slides require access to a Google or Gmail account. The content within the ClassPak presentation cannot be edited, though you are able to control the advancement of slides and animations.​​
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Free Anger Management Worksheets

As a mom with a son who has Autism and daily anxiety, I am so thankful that I "stumbled" across this page! It has some great learning tools! The worksheet "Something made me angry" is a new staple in our house. I love this website so much! Thank you!!

Allison H.

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FREE Therapeutic Worksheets for Kids and Teens

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Free therapeutic worksheets for counselors working with kids and teens! Topics focus on anger, anxiety, bullying, social skills, grief, feelings, and much more.

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Melissa Nunes-Harwitt, LMSW, shares another method, called Hand on Heart, to help ease a racing mind.

Anxiety is something most of us have experienced at least once in our life. Public speaking, performance reviews, and new job responsibilities are just some of the work-related situations that can cause even the calmest person to feel a little stressed. This five-step exercise can be very helpful during periods of anxiety or panic by helping to ground you in the present when your mind is bouncing around between various anxious thoughts.

Before starting this exercise, pay attention to your breathing. Slow, deep, long breaths can help you maintain a sense of calm or help you return to a calmer state. Once you find your breath, go through the following steps to help ground yourself:

5: Acknowledge FIVE things you see around you. It could be a pen, a spot on the ceiling, anything in your surroundings.

4: Acknowledge FOUR things you can touch around you. It could be your hair, a pillow, or the ground under your feet.

3: Acknowledge THREE things you hear. This could be any external sound. If you can hear your belly rumbling that counts! Focus on things you can hear outside of your body.

2: Acknowledge TWO things you can smell. Maybe you are in your office and smell pencil, or maybe you are in your bedroom and smell a pillow. If you need to take a brief walk to find a scent you could smell soap in your bathroom, or nature outside.

1: Acknowledge ONE thing you can taste. What does the inside of your mouth taste like-gum, coffee, or the sandwich from lunch?

This technique is one of many options you could use if you are feeling anxious or overwhelmed. If anxiety is something that you struggle with regularly, and you continue to have trouble refocusing or coping with these feelings, please talk to your doctor or contact Behavioral Health Partners at (585) 276-6900. Behavioral Health Partners is brought to you by Well-U, offering eligible individuals mental health services for stress, anxiety, and depression.

By: Sara Smith, BSW

Source: SOAR, Inc.

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Anxiety is something most of us have experienced at least once in our life. Public speaking, performance reviews, and new job responsibilities can cause even the calmest person to feel a little stressed. A five-step exercise can help during periods of anxiety or panic.

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Stress and anxiety are often the biggest obstacles when it comes to important moments in our lives. While situations such as receiving a promotion at work, taking final exams, going on a flight, and performing in a sports competition can be exciting and positive experiences, without proper stress management, the fear of failure and need for success can have a negative impact on not only the results, but our long-term health.

That's where the 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique comes in, as it is designed to ease your state of mind so that you can get through stressful moments. The goal with this exercise is to use the five senses to focus on the moment and avoid multiple anxious thoughts that can get in the way of your progress.

Deep, slow, and long breaths are your first priority for achieving a calm state before proceeding to the following steps:

5. SEE: Acknowledge five things that you can see around you. Options can range from a pen or stapler at your office to a bird or tree while you're out at the local park. If you're at home, you can look at a family photo on the wall or a glass of water on the kitchen counter. You can pick between big and small items to keep your options open.

4. TOUCH: Acknowledge four things that you can touch around you. You can start with your hair, hands, elbows, and other parts of your body if you're short on time. The ground beneath your feet, whether it's the floor of your bedroom or the office at work, also helps. Pillows, desks, phones, and keyboards can fit this step.

3. HEAR: Acknowledge three things you can hear around you. Instead of listening to your own thoughts or sounds from your body like your stomach growling, focus on external noises. Examples include someone driving a car nearby, a clock ticking, or a dog barking. If you're at work, you can listen to typing and the steps of people walking by your desk.

2. SMELL: Acknowledge two things around you that you can smell. This step may be a challenge compared to the others, so it's best to go to a place with more sources of scent if you don't smell anything wherever you are at the moment. The outdoors has plenty of options for smells, and the soap in bathrooms also helps. Your furniture can provide pleasant smells for this step when you're home.

1. TASTE: Acknowledge one thing around you that you can taste. It doesn't necessarily have to be food, as toothpaste and minty floss you use in the morning or at night are easy sources. You can also go with the cinnamon-raisin oatmeal you have for breakfast, the sandwich and chips you have for lunch, or the pasta primavera you have for dinner. Coffee, tea, and other drinks you have to get through the day also work.

End this exercise with a long, deep breath.

With these steps, you will be able to get the most out of the moment. Focusing on your senses will help you be more mindful, which will then help you accomplish your tasks and experience success. As a result, you can defeat your anxiety and feel in control of your life. Put this technique into practice to so that you can improve your health and make those big days fun!

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Unwind this Monday with the 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique

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Stress and anxiety are often the biggest obstacles when it comes to important moments in our lives. While situations such as receiving a promotion at work, taking final exams, going on a flight, and performing in a sports competition can be exciting and positive experiences, without proper stress management, the fear of failure and need for success can have a negative impact on not only the results, but our long-term health.

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Step-by-Step: College Awareness and Planning

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Step-by-Step: College Awareness and Planning

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Activities to increase student interest in college

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Resources for PBIS & SEL - Kimberly McDonald

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Resources for PBIS & SEL - Kimberly McDonald

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Wide-Range of activities for both student and adult SEL