Resources for YOU right on your CELL PHONE:
MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION :
Calm: Best for visualizing and looking inward
Headspace: Best for learning lifelong mindfulness skills (free)
Insight Timer: Best for free guided meditations and talks from celebrities and gurus around the world (free)
Smiling Mind: Best for guided meditation and exercises/activities to daily challenges (free)
Mindshift: free self-help anxiety relief app, the helps you reduce worry, stress, and panic
Stop, Breathe & Think: The app offers basic information on mindfulness, meditation, thoughts, stress, and the effects of stress on the body. It offers daily reminders to “check-in” (free)
BEHAVIORAL AND HABIT AIDS:
MindDoc: Best for teens who struggle with or want more insight into their mental wellbeing
Pacifica: Best for breaking the vicious cycle of negative thoughts (free)
Calm Harm: Best for teens who struggle with self-harm
MoodPath: Best for teens who need help detecting symptoms of depression
Happify: fast-track to a good mood. Try various engaging games, activity suggestions, gratitude prompts and more to train your brain as if it were a muscle, to overcome negative thoughts.
Aura: Best for personalized tracks and coaches
Simple Habit: Best for teens with busy schedules
Fabolous Self Care: promote healthy lifestyle by taking users step-by-step to set out daily routines and beneficial habits. Includes suggestions and activities to integrate exercise and diet plans, coaching on goal-setting and making sustainable positive changes, and tools to boost energy, motivation and wellness.
WhatsUP: helps you cope with depression, anxiety, stress and more. Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your goal habits, and break those that are counterproductive. We particularly love the “ Get Grounded” page, which contains over 100 different questions to pinpoint what you’re feeling and the “thinking patterns” page, which teaches you how to stop negative internal monologues.
SAFETY:
LEARNING:
Emotionary: best for teens searching for the language to better express themselves and have their emotional needs met (free)
For me: Best for teens who are looking to access support on a wide selection of mental health and wellbeing topics. Articles, videos, message boards and the ability to connect with a childline counselor, if needed. Password-protected “Locker Room” to bookmark articles, reflect and track their moods, keep an online journal, store artwork and counselor conversations. (Free)
Moodpath: Best of teens who want to track their psychological, emotional and physical health, assessing symptoms, and providing tools for reflection. The app also provides education on the psychology behind mood , signs of depression, and effective tools to improve mental health mood, sleep, and self-advocacy.
Middle School Confidential: This is a series of apps in the format of a graphic novel that teaches students how to overcome everyday situations that present in mid-childhood, including struggling with self confidence, coping with relationship issues among friends and family members, dealing with bullies, and much more. Each book has quizzes, quotes and tips from real teens, advice from parenting experts, and lots of online and real world resources.
POSITIVE MESSAGING:
I am: Choose intentions and set reminders to receive affirmations throughout the day
Grateful: Grateful provides you with daily prompts like “What made you smile today?” or “ What made today a good day?” You just need to answer with a word or a paragraph, and then you can add a photo to represent your thoughts. (free)
Motivation- Daily quotes: this app sends you an inspirational and motivational quote everyday. It allows you to select a number of categories, and will then send quotes from the categories you select.
GRIEF RESOURCES:
EduHero Call line, 201-296-5076. Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm (for educator support)
Bergen Resource Net, visit: https://www.bergenresourcenet.org/
A Toolkit for Children and Families, for more, visit: https://www.nj.gov/dcf/about/divisions/dcsc/
The Pandemic Toolkit Parents, For More: www.childtrauma.org
Imagine, NJ, visit: imaginemj.org
Hearts and Crafts Grief Counseling, Hillsdale, NJ, For more: www.heartsandcraftscounseling.org
Rainbows group in YMCA-Ridgewood, NJ (free) 201-444-5600
Echoes Grief Center in Jersey City, NJ 201-433-2244
Hope in Morristown, NJ 888-920-2201 visit: hopesnj.org
Grief Speaks 1-800-367-6274 or visit http://www.griefspeaks.com/
The Valley Hospital Ridgewood, NJ-Art/ Grief Therapy Program
National Alliance for Children’s Grief, visit: https://childrengrieve.org/
NJ 2-1-1, for more: www.NJ211.org
For more information about Grief: www.grief.com
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES:
www.mentalhealthamerica.net or 800-969-NMHA(6642)
www.nami.org or 800-950-NAMI(6264)
SUICIDE:
Hopeline: Teen to Teen peer counseling 877-YOUTHLINE
2ND Floor Youth Helpline
www.2ndfloor.org or 888-222-2228
Peer Warm Line, NJ 1-877-292-5588
Crisis Text Line: Text HOME OR 741741
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS:
ABUSE:
National Domestic Violence Hotline
www.thehotline.org/ or 800-799-SAFE(7233)
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800-656-HOPE (4673)
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-422-4453
SUBSTANCE ABUSE SUPPORT:
National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Hotline: 800-662-HELP (4357)
National Clearinghouse Alcohol & Drug Abuse Hotline: 800-729-6686
Al-Anon and AlaTeen: 888-425-2666 or 888-4AL-ANON
RUNAWAY:
LGBTQ+ SUPPORT:
EATING DISORDERS:
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
www.anad.org/ or 847-831-3438
National Eating Disorders Association Information and Referral Helpline: Support for people struggling with eating disorders
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/ or 800-931-2237
CRIME:
National Center for Victims of Crime
www.victimsofcrime.org or 800-FYI-CALL (394-2255)
Anti-Hate Line: Discrimination support and resource referral 800-649-0404
Teen Health Questions: Children’s Hospital Teen Resource Line
888-711-TEEN (8336)