Over the next few weeks we will be offering webinars focused on how SSW practitioners at specific grade levels (Early Childhood/Pre-K, Elementary, Middle School, High School, & Alternative Education settings) are all adapting their SSW practice during this time.

Suicide prevention during distance learner presents unique challenges. This document from NASP begins to provide guidance as well as recommended suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention strategies.

Now more than ever, students need key digital citizenship skills, including news and media literacy, the ability to recognize and respond to cyberbullying, and an understanding of how their media habits affect them. The lesson plans listed here are all available for free as part of Common Sense Education’s K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum. 

Many parents don’t know the signs of depression or where to turn for help. This Parent Handbook helps parents understand what’s going on with their child, find the right treatment, and work with the schools.

Love and Logic, a popular parenting program, are offering their online class for free when you signup during the month of April.

Great selection of free social emotional learning activities that can be used to help students in elementary and middle school.

Distance learning doesn’t mean perfect attendance. One teacher’s concerns over the missing students who have yet to logon.

“As the nation’s educators navigate the sudden school closures that the COVID-19 outbreak has brought upon them, many debates, decisions and news…”

“The keys for acknowledgment, from my research and experience, include preparing your staff and making sure you have the systems in place to support your efforts. Whatever you do, do not roll out any approaches until you have the systems to support them or the data to evaluate them!”

Experts from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network share their recommendations for educators supporting students during the COVID-19 crisis.

These LiveChats will run Monday, Wed. & Friday at 11 a.m. central time until this crisis is over. Michael Kelly will co-host them with special guest presenters.

This webinar will feature a panel of SSW from around the country who all work in elementary schools and who are trying to figure out how to “do” SSW during this COVID-19 crisis. They will share their successes and struggles too, and invite all of you to continue to share what you’re doing to meet the needs of your elementary schools.

As we are all adapting to Distance Learning and our new realm of school social work service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic, many school social workers are confronting ethical concerns related to equity, social justice and how to ensure culturally responsive services. This webinar will provide essential insight into how to begin addressing underlying equity issues confronting our students and families during this global health crisis: