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Tip Sheet on Social Media Use and Mental Health [downloadable]
This resource discusses the benefits of social media and provides tips on how to use social media in to support your mental health. Read more >>
How to Raise an Optimistic Human in a Pessimistic World
If you’re raising kids today, it can be easy to focus on the negative. And it’s no wonder. Due to the 24-hour news cycle, social media and cellphone notifications — and even sources you wouldn’t expect, such as Instagram and Read more >>
What Teletherapy Is and Why It Works
written by Liza Bennigson, Associate Director of Marketing and Communications In the early days of the pandemic, CHC implemented a remote model of care using a HIPAA-compliant healthcare platform on Zoom so that our nonprofit mental health agency could continue Read more >>
Learn How to Tell if Your Child Is Depressed and the Best Ways to Help
Does your child seem unusually sad, irritable or quiet lately? Such changes in mood could be due to a temporary stress in life. But how do you know if it’s something more? Read more >>
How to Help Your Child Rekindle Friendships at Any Age
Cultivating strong friendships isn’t easy for every child — pandemic or no pandemic. Neurodiverse children or those with behavioral or mental health needs may require additional external support for themselves and their caregivers. Here’s how you can help your child Read more >>
Other Concerns and Conditions with ADHD
ADHD often occurs with other disorders. Many children with ADHD have other disorders as well as ADHD, such as behavior or conduct problems, learning disorders, anxiety and depression. The combination of ADHD with other disorders often presents extra challenges for Read more >>
A Crisis Line That Calms with Texting and Data
Can algorithms be used to address more urgent social and individual problems, like how to build trust or provide effective care? Can algorithms be used to increase the love and kindness in the world? These are the sort of questions Read more >>
Impact of Screen Time on Children’s Brain Development — What We Know So Far
Researchers are releasing data from NIH’s 10-year Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study each year so scientists can analyze it as the project progresses. What does the early data from roughly 4,500 participants say so far? Read more >>
Are the Kids Alright? Teens Speak Out About the Emotional Toll of a Year in Isolation
Nine months into the global pandemic, Riley Capuano told a grid of faces on a Zoom screen why she and her peers needed schools to reopen. “I’ve never seen this many students struggling with mental health,” the Los Altos High Read more >>
Top Ten Back-to-School Tips to Help Your Child Thrive
The lazy days of summer have come to an end, and kids everywhere are going back to school. These expert tips from Challenge Success will help you and your child get the school year off to a great start! 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
