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How to Talk to Children and Teens About Suicide: A Guide for Parents
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for adolescents. The social and academic stresses of these years, combined with the availability of alcohol and drugs and the effect of social media, leave many parents concerned about the mental well-being of Read more >>
Strategies That Work: A Parent’s Guide to ADHD at School [downloadable]
For most students, the 2021-22 academic year will be starting in-person, and won’t feel like last year — but it will still feel different from years past. Despite so many unknowns on the horizon, there are challenges you can anticipate. Read more >>
How to Talk to Kids about Race
In this video, HuffPost Life reporter Caroline Bologna shares an age-by-age guide for discussing race with your children. Read more >>
Ask an Expert: Coping With Tension in the Family
They are the people you love most in the world, but living 24/7 under one roof with your family is stressful and tension filled. Even small things that never bothered you are major irritants now. And now you have the Read more >>
Medicating Young Minds: How to Know If Psychiatric Drugs Will Help or Hurt Your Child
As the nation’s leading expert on psychiatric disorders in children and the leading researcher on the effects of psychiatric drugs on kids, Dr. Glen Elliott says that doctors and even teachers are too quick to recommend medicating young minds rather Read more >>
How Parents Can Help Children Cope With Trauma [downloadable]
Collective trauma refers to the psychological and emotional distress experienced by a group of people or a community as a result of a shared traumatic event or series of events. This fact sheet from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Read more >>
Mental Health and Connection Are More Important Than Ever [downloadable]
Children’s Health Council is leading the emotional recovery with learning and mental health services for kids, teens, young adults and families. Our mission-minded experts are committed to transforming lives with courage, connection and compassion. CHC’s areas of excellence include learning Read more >>
Stress, Trauma & Grief: Raising Resilient Kids Through Hard Times
We’re experiencing what mental health experts call a “collective trauma”– overwhelm, isolation and the loss of what life used to be. Some have flourished during shelter-in-place and are anxious about re-entry. Others have lost so much that it feels like Read more >>
Anxious Kids? How Parents Can Help
For those with social or situational anxieties, sheltering-in-place may have brought comfort and control, and even the anticipation of re-entry can be debilitating. But these stressful times can also be a teaching moment, for us to validate our kids’ feelings Read more >>
Living With ADHD in a Pandemic
In this Voices of Compassion episode, we sat down with Ross Loofbourrow, an adult with ADHD who’s learned to embrace his differences as strengths and tap into his hyper-focus in a positive way. Ross believes ADHD is a superpower: in Read more >>
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CHC Palo Alto:
650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304
650.326.5530
CHC South Bay:
2280 Kenwood Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
408.831.7512
CHC Ravenswood:
1765 E Bayshore Rd, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
650.702.2487
