Advocating for your child, especially when they have a mental health concern, is crucial to ensuring they receive the support and services they need. As a parent, you have a vital role in navigating the complexities of the educational and healthcare systems to secure the best possible outcomes for your child.

Gain practical tips for supporting a loved one who isolates, including initiating compassionate conversations and understanding when to seek additional help for both them and yourself.

Learn actionable strategies to foster resilience in children and empower them to navigate life's challenges with confidence.

Understand the meaning behind your teen’s changing behavior by learning to spot and address red flags that could indicate a mental health concern

Learn effective ways to talk to your child about starting therapy. This guide offers age-specific tips to help parents and guardians communicate about mental health treatment in a supportive and understanding manner.

When you need to confront challenging subjects with your child, it can be difficult to find the right words. Understand the proven strategies to communicate tough topics with clarity, compassion, and confidence.

Active ignoring is a parenting technique where undesired, attention-seeking behaviors in children are deliberately not rewarded with parental attention, promoting a reduction in such behaviors over time. It focuses on utilizing parental attention as a powerful tool to foster and reinforce positive behaviors and actions in children, encouraging them to develop self-discipline and emotional regulation.

The Working Parents group at the US State Department had asked us to host a session that answers common questions about back-to-school and mental health. Examples include: what to do when my kid says they’re being bullied? How do deal with a kid who whines a lot? How do deal with a kid who says NO all the time? And more…

Learn proven and practical strategies to help parents and educators cope with a child's anxiety around back to school as well as your own stress. From morning routines to bullying to academic pressures to dealing with anxiety.

70% of high schoolers don’t get enough sleep and 90% of teens do not believe they can get enough sleep.

Join leading mental health and sleep experts to learn how much sleep kids of different ages need, why they aren’t getting enough, and how parents can help them go to sleep and stay asleep.

The session includes practical tools and principles you can use tonight.

Child anxiety is one of the most common mental health challenges families cope with. Some of the nation’s leading mental health and child anxiety experts shared proven and practical strategies about how parents can alleviate their child’s anxiety. The session was followed by a live Q&A and was presented by Fort Health with the Child Mind Institute.

Supportive Parenting for LGBTQ+ Youth: Dr. Michael Enenbach, Dr. Matt Biel, Dr. Ronita Nath, and Dr. Lindsay Henderson share practical advice for parents of LGBTQ+ youth and their peers. Presented by Fort Health with the Child Mind Institute and the Trevor Project.

What Social Media Does To Your Child and What You Can Do To Help

Learn about panic attacks, how to help your child or teen during a panic attack and how to get more help for panic attacks or a panic disorder.

How to help your child cope with anxiety about school. In this article, we’ll list signs your child may be anxious about school, what causes anxiety with school, and how to help your child cope. We’ll also offer tips for how to feel less anxious at the start of the school year as well as resources when your child or teen needs more help.

Roughly 3 in 10 kids with ADHD struggle with anxiety issues and vice versa. With similar characteristics at play, one or both disorders can be overlooked. Here’s how to get to the root of the problem and on to the right treatment.

As a parent, it’s natural to want to step in and protect your overly-anxious child but being a helicopter parent can actually make your child’s anxiety worse. Here’s how to respect your child’s feelings and empower them to take flight on their own — without hovering.

As a kid, the world can seem like a big, scary place. But when those fears become persistent, childhood anxiety may be to blame. Here’s how to calm your anxious child and help them manage their fears with proven coping skills.

Anxiety in kids and teens can come in all shapes and sizes. Learn the seven distinct anxiety disorders in children and what parents can do to relieve anxiety symptoms and get help.

How to talk to your child about mass shootings: a parent’s guide