Health Education: Social and Emotional Health

Social and emotional health encompasses topics such as stress management, self-esteem, expressing emotions and handling conflict, dealing with bullying and harassment, and mental and behavioral health.

ACTIVITIES

• Lesson Plan: Breaking the Mental Health Stigma
• Lesson Plan: Letter to Future Self
• Mood tracker activity
  • Bugs theme: English and Spanish
  • Space theme: English and Spanish
  • Flowers theme: English and Spanish
• You Are Important Acrostic: English and Spanish
• Nurturing My Mental & Emotional Health | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (nih.gov)
• Self-Esteem and Body Image Activities for Kids | Health Powered Kids 
• Natural High Brown Bag Challenge 

RESOURCES

• Reducing Mental Health Stigma in Schools – Reach Out
• Talking to Adolescents and Teens: Starting the Conversation – Mental Health America
• 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Lifeline (988lifeline.org) 
• DeStress Monday at School - The Monday Campaigns 
• Mental Health Resource Hub - Seattle Children's (seattlechildrens.org) 
• Where to Turn for Teens Resource booklet: WTTFT-English-and-Spanish-22_23-Final.pdf (teenlink.org)