• Keep Your Kids Safe Online

    The Office of the District Attorney, Anthony Scarpino, has contacted us for support with their initiative regarding online concerns for our children. Unfortunately, some individuals have been utilizing remote schooling as an opportunity to engage our children without us knowing. The following is the tweet that they posted last week, #StaySafeOnline (a national #) and #WestchesterSafe

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  • American Foundation For Suicide Prevention

    Are you in a crisis? 

    Call 800-273-8255 or text TALK to 741741.
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  • American Foundation For Suicide Prevention

    American Foundation For Suicide Prevention

     

    https://afsp.org/mental-health-and-covid-19
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  • Hope's Door

    Hope’s Door is a non-profit which seeks to end domestic violence and to empower survivors to achieve safety, independence and healing from the trauma of abuse. During these unprecedented times, we are still fully operational. Remote services are available, including our 24/7 crisis support and information hotline, counseling services, legal consultation and educational workshops. All services are free of charge and we do not discriminate based on a persons’ gender, race, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic status, immigration status or sexual orientation. Our bilingual hotline is open 24/7, and is available for shelter referrals, safety planning and any additional information on services provided. If you or a loved one is experiencing domestic violence during this time, please call 888-438-8700.
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  • GLSEN

    The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) webinar "Erasure and Resilience: The Experiences of LGBTQ Students of Color, Black LGBTQ Youth in U.S. Schools," aired on March 19, 2020. The webinar and the report are available here: 
     
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  • American School Health Association

    The American School Health Association aired "Updated National Sex Education Standards: What's Changed Since 2012?" This was recorded on April 9, 2020, but now available to watch as a webinar.
     
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  • CASEL

    The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is offering a number of webinars to support teachers and parents including on Friday, April 17th: "Listening to Our Young People: What Support Do They Need?" To learn more and to register for this webinar, and others, visit: 
     
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  • ParentTeen Connect

    ParentTeen Connect is designed by social-emotional learning experts as an at-home, family-engagement resource. This online experience is loaded with videos, resources, and useful advice to help teens and the adults in their lives address hot-button topics.

     

    https://www.parenteenconnect.org/
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  • CTAC & MCTAC

    The Community Technical Assistance Center of New York (CTAC) and the Managed Care Technical Assistance Center of New York (MCTAC) are a training, consultation, and educational resource center serving all behavioral health agencies in New York State. We help agencies strengthen their clinical and business infrastructure through training opportunities focused on implementing evidence-based practices and addressing the challenges associated with the recent changes in regulations, financing and overall healthcare reforms.

     

    https://calendar.ctacny.org/
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  • Free Online Parenting Group:

    Parenting Through the Storm

    Date: April 29, 2020
    Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    Location:  Zoom

    Free weekly live streamed parenting groups, led by WJCS professionals in partnership with the Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health, will be offered each Wednesday at 11 a.m. to explore various topics and challenges relating to how to cope with the “here and now.”  Subjects discussed will include: how to manage stress, build structure, communicate better, and have fun while being and, in many cases, working at home with our children. 

    To join the live streamed parenting group on Wednesday April 8th, please click on this link: https://zoom.us/j/830644997. 

    The meeting ID is: 830 644 997.
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  • Family Services of Westchester

    Family Mental Health Centers

    Telephone and video therapy now available!

    Family Services of Westchester’s seven Family Mental Health Centers are licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health to offer comprehensive mental health services at convenient locations throughout Westchester County.

    Each Family Mental Health Center is staffed by a highly trained team of social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists who are committed to offering confidential, customized care that’s tailored to your (and your family’s) needs. Our Family Centers offer therapy in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. 

     

    https://files.constantcontact.com/2e0f488d701/b560e36b-d341-4cc1-afbe-c247c96ea8c5.pdf
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