Resources for Educators
As an educator or provider, you play a crucial role in supporting the mental health and well-being of students. This section offers resources to help you manage your own mental health, support students dealing with grief or other challenges, and create an inclusive, accommodating classroom environment. Whether you’re looking for ways to foster resilience in your students or need strategies for self-care, these resources are here to help.
Supporting Students Who Are Grieving
Talking with Grieving Students
Guidance for educators on approaching conversations with students who are grieving.
When Students Grieve, How Can Educators Help?
Strategies for providing meaningful support to students experiencing grief.
Helping the Grieving Student: A Guide for Teachers
A comprehensive guide on supporting grieving students in an educational setting.
How to Support a Grieving Student After a Loss
Practical advice on helping students cope with loss and offering emotional support.
Managing Our Own Mental Health
CTA: Wellness Center for Educators
A resource center focused on the mental well-being of educators, offering tools and support.
SEL for Teachers: Understanding Stress and Burnout
The complex nature of teaching can lead to emotional and physical fatigue. Burnout, a long-term psychological and physiological state, can cause depression. Recognizing and managing stressors can prevent long-term problems.
How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers?
Teachers emotionally support our kids, but who supports them? Educator Sydney Jensen explores how teachers risk “secondary trauma” by absorbing students’ emotional weight. Schools can get creative in supporting everyone’s mental health and wellness.
Don't Forget the Adults: How Schools Can Support Educator Mental Health
Insights into the importance of supporting educators’ mental health within schools.
Create Healthy Classrooms for All
Resources on fostering healthy, supportive classroom environments for students and teachers.
Struggling with Compassion Fatigue
Information and strategies for educators experiencing compassion fatigue.
Supporting Student Needs
Supporting Child and Student
A guide to understanding and meeting the diverse needs of students in the classroom.
Fostering the Whole Child
Resources on nurturing all aspects of a child’s development, including mental and emotional health.
Training Creates Safe Spaces for Kids
Safe Spaces is a free, online training designed to help individuals working with children and youth recognize and respond to signs of trauma and stress.
Educator Support
SAMHSA Support for Educators
Resources from SAMHSA to help educators understand and address mental health in schools.
Recognizing Troubled Students
Guidance on identifying signs that a student may be struggling with mental health issues.
Educators Can Play a Role in Preventing Student Suicide
Information on how educators can support suicide prevention efforts in schools.
Classroom Accommodations
Classroom Accommodations for Anxiety
Suggestions for making adjustments in the classroom to support students with anxiety.
An Educator's Guide to Academic Accommodations for Mental Illness
A guide on creating academic accommodations for students dealing with mental health issues.
Inclusive Classrooms
Resources on fostering inclusivity and creating supportive learning environments for all students.