It is important to give your child the coping resources they need to get through this devastating time in their lives. Having an open, honest, and supportive conversation about cancer can help your child understand what is happening to their loved one.

Dougy Center’s unique approach of using peer support groups offers an opportunity for you to express your emotions — all of them — and helps you find your own path in grief.

The 988 Lifeline offers 24/7 call, text and chat access to trained crisis counselors who can help people experiencing suicidal thoughts or feelings. People can also dial 988 if they are worried about a loved one who may need support.

Read this booklet to get information and tips on how to safeguard your child from alcohol or other drug use in the future. It includes suggestions for modeling healthy behavior, building strong relationships and parent-child communication, and monitoring children's activities.

Learn how to start the conversation, how to set family rules around no use of substances, facts about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, and warning signs to watch for.

Many parents worry about the negative impacts of peer pressure. Use these tips to help you guide your kids through it.

As your child moves into their teenage years, you might see a shift from them relying on you or another trusted adult, to looking for support from their peers. This can be a big milestone as they start making more independent decisions. Get some tips for helping them pick a positive peer group.

Help your child handle fears and gain independence as they go back to the classroom. Pointers for addressing anxiety about being separated from their families after months of togetherness.

In English and Spanish.

Whether you’re facing a global or personal crisis—or a mix of both—building resilience can help you cope with stress, overcome adversity, and enjoy the better days to come.

Listen to six mothers share their stories about their substance use recovery and parenting journey. Learn how they overcame challenges and what supports their success.

When looking for an early education and care setting, you can ask about emotional safety along with all the other important selection criteria. Scroll down to the Caregiver-Child Interaction Questions to help you find out how your child will be nurtured by child care staff. Other questions focus on types of settings and how they handle children's emotions, discipline, and parent communication.

Starting kindergarten may be a big transition! Use these 10 tips to help minimize your child's anxiety, address their fears, and build their confidence as they start kindergarten.

Who needs sleep? Everyone! Sleep supports mental health. This guide describes ways for you and your baby to develop healthy sleep habits, bedtime routines, and strong relationships. Different things work for different families. Find what works best for yours.

Young children often develop fears about bedtime and sleep. It's typical! But it can be frustrating for caregivers. This tip sheet offers suggestions, including scripts, about working with your child to address bedtime fears.

Divorce affects children even if they’re too young to talk about it. Help your child cope with the changes that separation or divorce brings. Check out these tips on what to say, what young children need, what to expect, and how to handle shared custody.

Before and after you have a baby can bring a mix of emotions. Use these questions to know the signs of anxiety and depression and when you should take action to get help.

Young children who have a hard time staying calm or calming down need adults to show them how. Sometimes repeating a brief message (mantra) to yourself can help. Try these out.

When Little Rabbit and Big Rabbit reunite, they share their feelings about being separated. A great story for children and caregivers who have been away from one another due to foster care, addiction, illness, and other struggles. Watch now.

Written and read by Chandra Ghosh Ippen. Illustrated by Erich Ippen, Jr.

Let Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster explain what it means to wait and have self control. This is a fun way to reinforce a message young children need to hear many times a day.

Young children often use hitting to communicate. For children with emotional health needs, this can be hard to manage. Check out this list of 31 ideas, suggestions and questions to consider when your child hits another child.

When young children have trouble expressing their feelings, a picture might be better than a word. Ask your child to point to the face showing how they feel. In English and Spanish.

Showing love and responding to your child helps them learn to manage their feelings and behavior. Caring for yourself helps you care for your child. Learn practical ways to help your child thrive.

Keeping our brain in shape is just as important as keeping our body in shape. The On Our Sleeves team has 22 suggestions for you and your family to help you stay mentally fit through routines, healthy eating, and exercise.