Caregivers


Self-Care:
Maintaining Your Own Health-Family Members Caring for Relatives with a Mental Disorder.
Bright Futures: Parental Depression.
RISE: Hit On All Fronts-Parenting with Mental Illness. Healing Ourselves for Our Children.
NMHA: When a Parent Has a Mental Illness: Interventions and Services for Families, Issues and Challenges, and the
Invisible Children's Project.
MHA: When a Parent Has a Mental Illness: Child Custody Issues.
CYFC: Mental Health and Parenting.
Dealing with Professionals:
Bright Futures: Cultural Competence Assessment.
Miscellaneous:
RISE: Facing Termination Of Parental Rights. What to do if you're facing an investigation.
Children's Hospital Boston: Making Sense-A parent’s guide to a child’s psychiatric hospitalization
MADI: Mental Health Resource Guide-2007
Bright Futures-About My Feelings. My School Sheet.
CA MHA: A Siblings Guide to Psychosis Information, Ideas and Resources.
Talk it Out-Personal and Community Development
Do2Learn!-Website provides games, songs, communication cards, print resources and information for special needs.
Reading Rockets-Multimedia project offering information and resources for young kids to learn how to read.
Parenting Issues:
The Anti-Drug: Navigating the Teen Years: A Parent's Handbook for Raising Healthy Teens.
Riffel: Getting Behavior in Shape at Home.
FTC: NET CETERA-Chatting with Kids About Being Online
TimeWarner: Cyber Safety Guide.
Brightfutures: Early Childhood. Elementary Checklist. Middle Childhood Checklist. Adolescence Checklist. Tips for
Parenting the Anxious Child.
SAMHSA: The Myth of the Bad Kid. The Myth of the Bad Parent. Preparing Youth for Peer Pressure.
Lynn: Nurturing the genius of your wild, odd, and oppositional child.
NAMI-MH: Guidebook for Caregivers of Children and Adolescents with Serious Emotional Disorders.
CSEFEL: Positive Solutions For Families Workbook.
SchoolClimate: Talking to Our Child About Violence and Terrorism, Early Warning Signs, Social and Emotional Learning.