Fact Sheets
Learn more through these websites:
Sleep
- Basics about Sleep: How Much Sleep Do I Need? from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Healthy Sleep Habits: How Many Hours Does Your Child Need? from Healthychildren.org
Language Development
- Typical Speech and Language Development from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Behavior
- IoWA-PCIT (Integration of Working Models of Attachment into Parent Child Interaction Therapy)
- Pocket PCIT Online a web-based resource from the Mailman Center for Child Development at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
- PDF | The Power of Positive Parenting: Five positive parenting techniques to help your child thrive by Rebecca Handman, MS with Illustrations by Gary Handman from UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
Diversity and Inclusion
- Dream City: An Iowa City organization providing family-focused supports to families in the Corridor Community. “Inspiring change through advocacy, art, wellness, and community connections.”
- iJAG: Preparing Iowa students for success in the workforce and life
- Job Corps: A national residential career training program
- Talking to Kids about Racism and Violence from the Child Mind Institute
- Webinar: How to Talk to Kids About Racism and Discrimination with Oluwemimo Adeyanju, MD; Laura Fuller, PhD; and Joyce Goins-Fernandez, PhD.
- TEDx talk: Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations about Racethe conscious kid | an organization dedicated to equity and promoting healthy racial identity development in youth
- Stigma, Prejudice and Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness from the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
- The Many Impacts of Self-Stigma from NAMI
- EmbraceRace
- Humanize My Hoodie
- Latinx/Hispanic Communities and Mental Health from Mental Health America
- National Latino Behavioral Health Association (NLBHA)
- National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Facing History & Ourselves: Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to learn and grow.
- Asian Art Museum
- Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Resources for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities
- Understood.org: Understood is a collection of 15 different nonprofit organizations that have joined forces to help the families of children with learning disabilities.
- Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities
- PBS Parents
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Center for Parent Information and Resources (CPIR)
Phone Apps to Consider for your Kids
DreamyKid Meditation
Description: DreamyKid offers many categories and mindfulness programs to teach your kids how to regulate their own feelings.
Age Range: 3-17
Device Compatibility: iOS, web-based interface
Cost: Free for schools, hospitals, and those accredited to work with kids; Subscription-based for access to premium content
The Zones of Regulation
Description: Through this application kids learn how to use different tools to manage their feelings and behaviors in each zone. Given each child’s needs and preferences are unique, they can explore various calming techniques, cognitive strategies, and sensory supports, building a toolbox of methods to use to regulate and move between zones.
Age Range: 6+
Device Compatibility: Android (through Amazon App store for Android), iOS
Cost: $5.99
Smiling Mind
Description: Mindfulness based meditation application for kids and adults although younger kids may need guidance and engagement of parents to go through some exercises. Exercises include body scans, breathing meditation, and sensory exercises.
Age Range: 5+
Device Compatibility: Android, iOS
Cost: Free, non-profit
MoodKit
Description: This application draws on concepts from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help for depression. Moodkit can guide the user through challenging problematic thoughts and provides space for tracking symptoms.
Age Range: 12+
Device Compatibility: iOS
Cost: $4.99
Sanvello (previously known as Pacifica)
Description: It is a free smartphone app that was initially based on concepts of CBT and Mindfulness that has tools and activities to help with daily stress, anxiety and depression. With the change to Sanvello, they offer a wider selection of therapies grounded in empathy and meeting people where they are at.
Age Range: 17+
Device Compatibility: Android, iOS
Cost: Subscription-based for access to premium content
Calm
Description: Calm is a meditation, sleep and relaxation app. The app offers mindfulness and sleep stories for children of varying ages in addition to various guided meditations
Age Range: 7+
Device Compatibility: Android, iOS
Cost: Subscription-based for access to premium content
Headspace
Description: This is an app that offers guided meditations, animations, articles and videos based on Buddhist concepts.
Age Range: 5+
Device Compatibility: Android, iOS
Cost: Subscription-based for access to premium content
IntelliCare through Northwestern Medicine
Description: IntelliCare is a suite of apps (The Hub, Daily Feats, Thought Challenger, My Mantra, Day to Day, and Worry Knot), developed by Northwestern University's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, that work together to help people deal with common causes of stress, depression, and anxiety.
Age Range: 18+
Device Compatibility: Android, iOS
Cost: Free
ACT Coach through USDVA
Description: This app was developed for Veterans and Service members based on concepts of Acceptance Commitment Therapy. It offers exercises, tools, information, and tracking logs so you can practice what you’re learning in your daily life.
Age Range: 12+
Device Compatibility
Cost: Free
Free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, CBTi
Description: Free and open access CBTi to help with insomnia. Information is provided in English, Korean, Spanish, Italian and Chinese.
Age/Grade Range: 18+
Device Compatibility: Web-based interface
Cost: Free