As a youth development agency, we must focus on supporting the social-emotional development of our students while at home.

Here are some resources related to COVID-19 that you can use during this time.

Due to the coronavirus and school closures, New York City community schools are rapidly thinking about ways to continue academic learning remotely, supporting students' health, wellbeing, and social-emotional learning while at home.

During this time, it’s also critical for us as leaders, educators, and parents to focus on our social-emotional wellbeing as we look to support the social-emotional development of our students at home.

Resources for Families, Parents, and Students

• Grades K-5 resources for students to use at home.

• Grades 6-8 resources for students to use at home.

• High School student resources to use at home.

• Health and Education resources for students and parents.

• Microsoft Family Learning Center K-12 activities students can use at home.

• Supporting Mental Health at Home: Activities, Worksheets, and Resources for Families (via Move This World)

• 17 Apps to Support Students Stay Focus (via CommonSense Media)

• Best Documentaries (via CommonSense Media).

• Best Family Movies (via CommonSense Media).

• BrainPop on Coronavirus.

• Free Educational Apps, Games, and Websites (via CommonSense Media).

• Free SEL Activities and Practices (via Greater Good in Education).

• Teaching Kids Media Smarts During Breaking News (via CommonSense Media).

• 5 Ways to Help Teens Manage Anxiety About Coronavirus (via New York Times).

• 5 Social-Emotional Learning Games to Play With Your Child (via Understood)

• 9 Indoor Activities for Hyperactive Students (via Understood)

• Beyond Books: 6 Fun Things for Kids to Read (via Understood)

Resources for Educators and the School Community

• Altice Advantage Internet: Altice USA provides Optimum and Suddenlink new customers 60 days free internet.

• Coronavirus Resources: Teachers, Learning, and Thinking Critically (via New York Times)

• Khan Academy: Free academic resources for parents and teachers

• IXL: Personalize K-12 learning experience with IXL

• Free BrainPop Access for Schools Closed Due to COVID-19 (via BrainPop).

• Free SEL Activities and Practices (via Greater Good in Education)

• Managing Anxiety Around COVID-19: Tips for You and Your School Community (via Yale Center for motional Intelligence/Ruler)

• E-Learning Tools For Distance Education

• Top Time-Management Apps (via CommonSense Media)

Resources for Adult Self-Care

• Self Care Stress Management Toolkit

• Virus Anxiety Resources

• Regulating Emotions in a COVID-19 World

Resources for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Speaking Up Against Racism Around the New Coronavirus (via Teaching Tolerance)

• Coronavirus: Countering Biased Responses (via Morningside Center)

• The Coronavirus Surface Fear, Stereotypes and Scapegoating (via Anti-Defamation League)

Other / Miscellaneous

• U.S. Department of Education COVID-19 Resources

• Specific resources related to COVID-19