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Mental Health Education Resources

ADAP Curriculum - Johns Hopkins

3 hour school-based curriculum to educate high school students, teachers and parents about teenage depression.

Anxiety and Depression Association of America: Mental Health Apps

Evaluated Mental Health Apps. Site also includes information and infographics

Attitudes In Reverse

Start THE Conversation, Reverse an Attitude, Save a Life!

Children's Health Council Resource Library -

CA based organization. Filter resources on left.

Everyone Is Going Through Something | By Kevin Love

Mental health isn’t just an athlete thing. What you do for a living doesn’t have to define who you are. This is an everyone thing.

Game: Please Knock on My Door -

Windows application

Harvard's Project Implicit

Test for determining bias regarding Mental Health

Living Room Conversation: Mental Health

Group conversation guide for discussing mental health

Mindshift: How Making Art Helps Teens Better Understand Their Mental Health

Using art to help adolescents express how they feel is giving students the tools to better understand their own mental health. Love the idea of a "Creative Courage"

Nikki Grimes Explains Why Mental Illness Is Not A Weakness

Accomplished poet and author Nikki Grimes dives headfirst into childhood memories for her memoir Ordinary Hazards. Having created a work that simultaneously shares trauma and moments of light, Grimes discusses the process of excavating her personal history.

OER Commons: HS Health

See Module 1, Seminars 1 & 2.

Pew: Most U.S. Teens See Anxiety, Depression as Major Problems

Whether they personally experience these conditions, seven-in-ten teens today see mental health issues as major problems among people their age in their communities.

Project Semicolon Teens

Visit the post for more.

Pulityzer Center: Trying to Stop Suicide: Guyana Aims to Bring Down Its High Rate

Most of Guyana's suicides occur in rural regions, where people turn to alcohol and self-harm to cope with feelings of hopelessness and economic despair.

Pulitzer Cdenter: Their Own Government Killed Their Families. Now These Women Are Helping Each Other Survive.

You’ve heard about the thousands of Filipinos murdered in Duterte’s drug war. Here’s what’s happened to those left behind.

Pulitzer Center: Jamaica's 'Barrel Children' Often Come up Empty with a Parent Abroad

In Jamaica, they are called barrel children,' after the shipping containers used by their absent parents to send material support. However, what can't be shipped is emotional nurturing.

SLJ: Graphic Novels Offer Windows, Mirrors on Mental Health

A small but growing YA category, graphic novels that deal with mental illness reflect readers’ own experiences and help them better understand and empathize with others.