Wayne Central Middle School

• Project Resilience: resilience and asset-building

Kids Health: A resource guide for students to cope with feelings they may be experiencing.

• Parenting tips for better sleep in children: Ideas to help your child gain a more restful night's sleep.
• Back to school parent survival guide: Guide to surviving your child's first day back to school.
• All Kinds of Minds: A non-profit institute to assist students who struggle with learning by providing programs that integrate educational, scientific and clinical expertise.

• Freevibe Website: Anti-drug website for teens.
• Not My Kid: Dedicated to facilitating improved understanding about youth behavioral health issues.
• Icountadvisors.com: Anti-drug website.
• The Anti-Drug: A resource for parents to better understand the world of their teen, and the substance abuse issues they may face.
• Middle Web: Exploring Middle School Reform.
• Information Please Kids' Almanac: Guide for students.
• Suicide Awareness/Voices of Education: suicide prevention/depression awareness.
• Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc.: Information regarding eating disorders.
• Teen Grief: A selection of sites for teens dealing with grief and loss.

• Study Skills website: Tips to help your child study correctly.
• Helping your child with Study Skills: Help your child become successful at taking tests and quizzes.
• How to Study: Tips to help your child study correctly.
• Helping your child become better organized: Techniques to help your child become more organized.
• Awesome Library For Teens: Library resource for students.
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation for Children is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the U.S. The AECF sponsors and supports the annual Kids Count census of the status of American Children. Their site is a forum for issues affecting our most vulnerable children
• America’s Promise is the Alliance for Youth led by General Colin Powell, is dedicated to mobilizing individuals, groups and organizations from every part of American life, to build and strengthen the character and competence of our youth.
• National PTA Program Areas provides a number of programs of interest to parents and educators, including Education, Arts, Health and Safety, Leadership and Awards Programs. This site provides the links.
• Ten Ways to Get Along Better in School is a survival guide for learning disabled students provides suggestions and strategies for helping these students fit in with their peers
• Bureau for At Risk Youth lists innovative guidance tools along with resources that help today's youth cope with difficult issues that face them.
• Stopping Unwanted Behaviors gives practical advice on setting limits, preventing discipline problems, and stopping unwanted behaviors.
• A Resource Guide to Bullying is a book list of effective stories and resources for the subject of bullying.
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) makes hundreds of Internet-based education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government easier to find.
• U.S. Department of Education provides the breaking news on the national education front, and also has a searchable ERIC Digests, education statistics (NCES), Federal Student Financial Assistance, FAFSA on the Web, IDEA '97, and more.

Below are some resources that teachers, students, and their families may find useful when coping with grief or loss:

American Hospice Foundation:

• americanhospice website

Finding The Right Words:

• I am sorry for your pain.
• I am sorry about _______________’s death, and I’d like to help in any way I can.
• I am here for you whenever you need me.
• I can’t know how you feel, but I want to help you in any way I can.

• I understand/know how you feel.
• Move on-get over it.
• You must be over it by now.
• You’re doing such a wonderful job!
• It could be worse, you still have ……
• You’ll be strong because of this.
• It was G-d’s will.
• _____ is in a better place.