American Websites and Resources

Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL)
A wealth of excellent resources are available for teachers and caregivers including: scripted stories for social situations, a booklist to support SEL development, lessons and activities to use with selected story books (book nook), feelings faces and other visual aids to teach SEL to children, and power point presentations.
www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel

Center for Mental Health in Schools
School Mental Health Project-UCLA, Department of Psychology A clearinghouse of mental health/school/education materials for educators and school mental health professionals. Provides resource packets (e.g. anxiety, affect and mood problems, protective factors, substance abuse), guidance notes, quick training aids and tutorials, presentation slides, monthly on-line newsletters, and technical assistance to educators and school mental health professionals.
www.smhp.psych.ucla.edu/

Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine
The Resources section of the website provides practical, user-friendly, information for clinicians, educators, families, and students interested in school mental health based on current research, including prominent evidence-based practices..
http://csmh.umaryland.edu

Collaborative Association for Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
The CASEL website offers books, articles, research, and professional development information on social and emotional learning in schools. Resources such as a handout package, Schools, Families, and Social and Emotional Learning, Ideas and Tools for Working with Parents and Families can be downloaded.
www.casel.org

KidsHealth.org
This website provides parents with information on a range of childhood issues including social and emotional behavior, growth and development and positive parenting.
www.kidshealth.org/parent

School Psychiatry Program and MADI Resource Centre, Massachusetts General Hospital
This site was created for parents, educators, and clinicians working together to support children and teens with mental health conditions. Information to meet the needs of young people with depression, bipolar disorder, attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorders, and anxiety disorders, including panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder is provided.
www2.massgeneral.org/schoolpsychiatry/index.asp