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Resources to Support Newcomer Students and Families

Find loads of resources to support newcomer youth and families. Migrant mental health encompasses the emotional, psychological, and social challenges faced by individuals who relocate across borders. Migrants often experience pre-migration traumas, uncertainties during transit, and post-migration stressors such as language barriers, financial instability, and discrimination. Adapting to new environments under these circumstances can heighten the risk of anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns. Addressing migrant mental health involves trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches that recognize the unique experiences and resilience of newcomers.

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Teen Safe – About Adolescent Substance Use

This website provides the latest science and true-life stories as educational materials to parents, teens and pre-teens to foster better family communications, promote resilience and healthy activities, and to reduce risky behaviors in teens with the goal of preserving their futures. Take a course to learn how to protect teenagers’ health, life and future through a series of brief videos that demonstrate the effects of adolescent substance use on the developing brain. Learn practical tips on how to keep your teen safe.

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Attendance Works

As a nonprofit initiative, Attendance Works partners with schools, districts, states, communities and organizations to ensure that chronic absence is recognized as a serious issue that can be addressed through proactive, supportive strategies. Their website offers resources for monitoring, understanding, and addressing chronic absence beginning in the early grades through secondary school. These strategies can be implemented at the school, district, and state level. You can find resources to help develop:

Positive Engagement with families and students
Actionable Data to help you identify students with too many absences
Capacity Building to help build a culture of attendance in your classroom, school or district.
Find toolkits under Capacity Building.

All tools can be downloaded and used without express permission from Attendance Works.

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Grant Writing for Education

This website is geared towrd the curriculum, Character Strong, but has compiled federal funding eligibility resources, funding details, and grant opportunities, along with writing tips to help you secure funding to purchase and implement other SEL curriculum.

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Resilience Resources for Schools

The NC Center for Resilience and Learning is a whole school, whole child framework working with districts and schools across the state to create trauma-informed learning environments that are safer and more supportive for ALL students. Check out their Resource page for online courses, worksheets, and additional tools for your school’s resilience toolbox.

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