WHAT IS RED FLAGS?

Articles with links:

1.Teachers, How Can We Care for Our Mental Health Right Now? Alexandra Frost on March 26, 2020.

2. Tips to Help Your Kids Manage Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://edgefoundation.org/tips-to-help-your-kids-managestress during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

3. Greater Good’s Guide to Well-Being During Corona virus

Practices, resources, and articles for individuals, parents, educators, and health care professionals facing COVID-19.

BY GREATER GOOD | MARCH 18, 2020

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/greater_good_guide_to_well_being_during_coronavirus

Book:

Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain an Uncertain andRapidly Changing World. Madeline Levine (Harper, 2020, 288 pages)

The Greater Good Science Center provides the following helpful tips. You can ponder one or all. Here they are:

Brooke Anderson’s 6 Daily Questions to Ask Yourself in Quarantine.

From Devi Gursahaney: Just like all of you during this global pandemic, social distancing, and the disruption of everything, I too am stuck at home, leaving the house once or twice a week only for essentials like groceries and medical care. And while we’re all (appropriately) focusing on caring for the physical health of ourselves, our families, and our communities, I believe that our mental, emotional, and social health needs are quickly emerging as profoundly important as well.

I am an executive director of Red Flags National. Red Flags is a framework and toolkit for school-based mental health education training to address the mental health needs of students at the onset of mental health concerns. Red Flags operates on the principle that mental health like physical health is a public health concern and mental illnesses are common in children. The earlier the intervention, the more effective efforts are at treating them.

Just like we are dedicated to offering children resources for personal growth and resilience, we are equally dedicated to showing up for teachers and parents—especially in these times when you are quite literally doing it all. So we at Red Flags are with you on this journey. We see you. We see your children. And our commitment to you remains as strong as ever.

What does all of this have to do with a global pandemic, social distancing, and the disruption of daily routine? The outbreak of corona virus may be stressful for you or your family. Fear and

anxiety about the disease is natural, as is depression caused by the various constraints imposed on us: no social events, no more trips to the gym, the café, or a friend’s house, no time for self as children and/or spouses may be home inhabiting the same space 24/7.

The point of all of this? It’s ...