Tools to Help My Child

A Place for Starr follows a brave girl and her family as they break the cycle of violence and leave an abusive home. This healing story helps children understand that family violence is not their fault, and they can tell adults or friends about their plight. Children learn that there are other families just like theirs that suffer from abuse.

This is a book for children, parents and teachers to teach kids to understand and overcome traumatic events that they might experience. 

The Empowering Kids Series is a collection of empathically reflective stories told from the perspective of young children. These books are meant to be used by parents and mental health providers to facilitate the child's verbalization of their feelings and experiences, thereby advancing the healing process and are aimed at validating the readers' experiences and feelings, thereby reducing feelings of shame and isolation.

Finding the Right Spot is a story for all kids who can't live with their parents, regardless of the circumstances. It's a story about resilience and loyalty, hope and disappointment, love, sadness, and anger, too. It's about whether life is fair, and wondering what will happen tomorrow, and talking about all of it. And finally, it's about what makes the spot you're in feel right.

Simple, direct, and from the heart, Jessie gives children the permission and the courage to deal with sexual abuse. "Please Tell!" is a beautifully simple book with a profoundly important message for children who have been sexually the abuse wasn't their fault

Will I live with my parents again? Will I stay with my foster parents forever? For children in foster care, the answer to many questions is often "maybe." Maybe Days addresses the questions, feelings, and concerns these children most often face. Honest and reassuring, it also provides basic information that children want and need to know, including the roles of various people in the foster care system and whom to ask for help.

This book for parents of children with serious emotional, psychological and behavioural challenges offers nine practical and effective strategies that parents can use to make children change troubling behaviours and become more resilient. Told as the story of three families that meet together weekly with Dr. Ungar at his office, each family’s struggles and successes are proof that with a little guidance and the power of unconditional love, any child can be helped to heal and reconnect.

This workbook gives parents the ability to explore their own Seven Core issues including - Loss, Rejection, Shame/Guilt, Grief, Identity, Intimacy and Mastery/Control - as well as their child's through varies experiential exercise and activities. Parents can identify and address their core issues in order to more effectively assist and support the child's core issues.

My Yellow Balloon is a poignant tale of love, loss, and letting go that will serve as a comforting guide to children who are navigating the complicated emotions of grief, while offering hope for brighter days ahead.

This book discusses and validates the difficult times of one who is going through grief. The Grand's Cooking Tips section at the back of the book is rich with wisdom and concrete recommendations to soften those difficult moments.

This book s a comforting aid to help young kids and families through a difficult time in their lives. It also helps dispel the mystery and negative connotations associated with death, providing answers to kids' most-often asked questions.

Healing Days is a sensitive and reassuring story intended for children who have experienced trauma and covers the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that many kids have after a bad and scary thing happens. It also emphasizes that children are not to blame for what happened, and that they can get help and look forward to a happy future. Kids will begin to understand their response to the trauma and learn some strategies for feeling safer, more relaxed, and more confident.

This book aims to support mothers with PTSD in discussing what they're feeling and also to reassure children that their mother wont feel like this forever, that they're not to blame for their mother's symptoms and that they're still very much loved. It can be difficult for mothers to express themselves when they're experiencing the full force of PTSD symptoms, so this book is aimed to be used as a tool for mothers to make reference to, to help communicate and reassure her child, in a gentle and memorable manner.

The first part of the infographic proposes three aspects to consider when working with children who have experienced trauma. In the second part, the ARC model of intervention is presented, illustrating the different components that need to be taken into consideration to improve children's quality of life after trauma.

This infographic provides a good understanding of the impact of trauma on the development of executive functions in children. It also offers several ideas for age-appropriate games to stimulate the development of these skills.

This digital gaming app is designed to lower anxiety as well as depression, and to build emotional resilience in students.

This app asks users to complete Mood Ratings each day. If the user rates their happiness as less than 50%, they are asked to rate how sad, angry, or “meh” they are feeling, so that they can identify what the negative emotion that they are feeling is, promoting emotional awareness. When the user rates their mood negatively, they are then directed to complete an activity to shift their mindset toward positive emotion. The user may use the Journal feature to journal their thoughts and feelings using words and emojis, or respond to a pre-populated question or quote. The App contains several activities designed to bolster resilience and positive emotionality.

These free and online educational courses and skills training workshops provide information on a variety of topics, including parenting, child development and child and youth mental health concerns. Programs are available for children, youth and caregivers.

This page contains a collection of Self-Reg resources for parents. You will find courses, groups, and online communities where you can connect with other parents.

This website provides animations that have been produced with the involvement of young people themselves, and that are designed to help young people and the adults around them recognise the signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. They also suggest ways of coping with scary memories, explain the science around the best treatments, and answer any worries you might have about getting support.