THE COLLECTIVE RESOURCES

The Collective offers numerous mental health resources for students and educators. These resources are created and provided by our Collective partners. All our resources are free and downloadable. Stay up to date with new resources being released with The Bulletin.

Believe In You
American Heart Association
Crisis Text Line
Go Be Great
Generation Spirit
Life CONsequences
Look For the Good
OPEN PhysEd
Erika’s Lighthouse
Holistic Performance Center

Take a moment to breathe by following along to these 1-minute meditation exercises.

We know exam time can be stressful for students and teachers, so follow along with these two breathing exercises to reduce stress and calm your mind. Good luck to all of the students and educators around the nation! We Believe In You!

FOR STUDENTS

FOR EDUCATORS

Print these downloadable the Collective and Believe In You posters and share them with your coworkers and staff! Hang them up in the teachers’ lounges and common areas in your school. Help us end the stigma that surrounds mental health conversations by promoting the Collective and Believe In You.

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Believe In You focuses on building school connections, empowering future leaders and promoting mental health awareness for students and educators through the use of empowerment programs, video series, professional development and a speaking tour.

This free program is designed to cultivate student leadership and provide proactive mental health support for all students. This FREE 20-week program is designed to be used in leadership classes as well as student clubs and leadership organizations.

Student Leadership Program

The Believe in You Student Empowerment Program, designed around core SEL competencies, provides free resources to help teachers facilitate social and emotional development. Interactive Student Empowerment Journals are now available in free digital formats.

Empowerment Program

The American Heart Association offers the Kids Heart Challenge and American Heart Challenge school programs that provide unique age-appropriate curriculum and activities. Students and educators have the tools needed to learn social and emotional skills and how to take care of their physical and mental health and well-being.

Building on key learnings from 43 years in America’s schools, the Kids Heart Challenge focuses on whole body wellness, helping students improve their own health and better their character while raising life-saving donations for the American Heart Association to help kids facing heart-health issues.

Kids Heart Challenge

The American Heart Challenge is a service-learning program that gives middle and high school students the opportunity to feel good by doing good. Students will raise funds and awareness to fight for health equity and to end heart disease and stroke.

American Heart Challenge

Crisis Text Line provides free 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention by empowering a community of trained volunteers to support people in their moments of need.

Get ready to prioritize your mental health and self-care this school year. You can  reduce stress and anxiety with this planner, which is designed to support you in key areas of wellness and greatness.

Self Care Student Planner

For all teachers and parents out there, this toolkit is especially designed for YOU. Get ahead of the game by identifying the signs of stress and anxiety in teens and prepare yourself on how to constructively offer support.

Educator and Parent Toolkit

The GoBeGreat Foundation celebrates difference-makers and overcomers, those who serve with kindness and selflessness while sharing their gifts, talents and opportunities with others. It encourages perseverance, leadership and community.

GoBeGreaters have served all over the country with causes including the Special Olympics, Salvation Army, suicide prevention, food banks, and breast cancer awareness. As well as many causes that hit closer to home for many affiliated with the organization. Events and fundraisers to support fellow athletes battling illnesses, families in need, and general community service projects are also contributions made by GoBeGreat volunteers.

About Go Be Great

We believe everyone is created for greatness and want to celebrate those that use their gifts, talents and opportunities to positively impact the lives of others! Check out our Go Be Great scholarship award winners.

GBG Award Winners

Life CONsequences is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating middle and high school students on the consequences and dangers of alcohol and substance abuse, social media issues and mental health awareness. Keynote speaker and founder of LifeCON, Ethan Fisher, draws from his life experience to challenge, motivate and inspire his audiences.

A certified 8 hour workshop for educators, coaches and administrators. Attendees will be trained to the signs and symptoms of depression, anxiety, addictions and other mental health issues. This course can help increase workplace performance by created a “team” of employees who care for co-worker’s workplace mental health

Mental Health First Aid Training

Everyday, students are faced with difficult choices. Every decision they make could drastically change their life and the lives around them. Many of those decisions could have overwhelmingly negative consequences. They have the power to say NO to the wrong decisions and YES to the right ones. Have them make the LifeCON commitment today.

The LifeCON Commitment

The Look for the Good Project offers community-care programs for K – 6 school communities to create a sense of safety and belonging and undo unwilled and unwanted aloneness. Students, parents, and educators learn how to unite their communities with gratitude and wiggle their stress into strength using a variety of trauma-informed empowerment tools.

The Kids Wiggle Warrior® Challenge is a free, online activity to help kids and their caregivers learn how to constructively use stressful feelings to identify their needs and make healthy choices. This program is perfect for parents of K – 3 kids.

Kids Wiggle Warrior® Challenge

Access the free digital copy of It’s Okay Not To Be Okay. This interactive book will teach kids to work with their stress instead of against it. Just shake and tap the book to befriend the Mad, Sad, Icky, and Afraid characters inside.

It’s Okay Not To Be Okay

OPEN PhysEd strives to improve the effectiveness of physical education for every child. They help teachers help their students by providing rigorous, outcomes-based curriculum tools to every physical education educator.

Growth mindset is developed through experience, struggle, failure, and triumph. Minute to Win challenges are designed to be a safe place for students to experience and understand this journey. This module is written for intermediate grade levels and can also be used at the middle school level.

Minute to Win

OPEN has all your Back to School needs! The free resources below are designed to help students build relationships, routines, and a love of health-enhancing physical activity.

Back To School

Erika’s Lighthouse is dedicated to their mission of providing free mental health programs to any school, anywhere. Their four pillars of Classroom Education, Empowerment Clubs, Family Engagement, and School Policy & Staff work together to give educators the tools to promote inclusive cultures around school mental health.

Classroom Education is focused on depression education in schools. Focused on grades 4-12, these no-cost, skills-based programs use diverse teen voices to spread awareness and reduce stigma.

Classroom Education Programs

Visit erikaslighthouse.org to access FREE activities and resources to spread positivity and awareness about mental health school-wide! The Take a Compliment poster is a great way to put smiles on faces throughout the school year.

Take A Compliment Poster

Meaningful inclusion shouldn’t be complicated. Generation Spirit offers disability awareness education and inclusive extracurricular programming to ensure that every student belongs. Inclusion starts with you.

Generation Spirit is a national nonprofit on a mission to equip, empower, and inspire the next generation of inclusive leaders. Founded by Iowa teens in 2009, Generation Spirit began as “The Sparkle Effect” — a grassroots, student-run organization dedicated to creating spirit teams that bring together students with and without disabilities.

About Generation Spirit

Our teams bring together students with and without disabilities to actively cultivate a school culture that values and celebrates all students. When you join Generation Spirit, we’ll help you develop a spirit strategy that suits the unique needs of your school community.

Start A Team

Holistic Performance Center™ is an Integrative Sport and Performing Arts Psychology Practice. Our mission is to assist clients in achieving overall mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Thank you for choosing us to join your performance journey!

In August of 2000, after experiencing paralysis on the left side of her body, Leneé received a heartbreaking diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Grateful to utilize her dance and Kinesiology education, Leneé regained mobility and strength in what her doctors deemed “record timing”.

About Leneé’s Journey

Schedule a holistic class with the Holistic Performance Center. Choose from Speaking Engagements, Cheerleader and Dancer Mental Skills Performance, Film, Music, Television, and Theatre Performance, and Self Care for Seniors.

Holistic Sessions