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COVID-19/Coronavirus Resources

We are compiling a list of resources that may be helpful during this time. Some of them are for health and well-being, some are for how to talk to your children about the virus, and some of them are just for fun. We will continue to add resources, so please check back soon. 

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🆕What is COVID-19? And How Does it Relate to Child Development?

🆕Quick Stress Relief

How to Stay Healthy While Staying Home

Legal Services of the Hudson Valley

Internet/WiFi Challenges:
Optimum 

Verizon
Comcast
Spectrum

How to Clean and Disinfect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Stuff:
https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-disinfectant-cleaning-guide/

Taking care of your behavioral health:
https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/tips-social-distancing-quarantine-isolation-031620.pdf

Westchester County Updates:
https://health.westchestergov.com/2019-novel-coronavirus

United Way of Westchester and Putnam:
https://www.uwwp.org/health-emergency-covid-19-coronavirus/

School Food Distribution and Child Care Information
https://www.uwwp.org/coronavirus-closures/

Child Care Council of Westchester:
https://www.childcarewestchester.org/

Factsheet: Know Your Rights, Protect Your Health
https://protectingimmigrantfamilies.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/You-Have-Rights-Protect-Your-Health-Updated-February-2020-ENGLISH.pdf

New York State Department of Labor
https://labor.ny.gov/unemploymentassistance.shtm

New York State Department of Health
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/home

New York State Office of Mental Health:
https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/guidance/covid-19-managing-stress-anxiety.pdf

Food Resources
https://feedingwestchester.org/
http://www.hudson211.org/cms6/files/os178/p145/Westchester%20County%20Food%20Pantries(1).pdf
https://www.expensify.org/hunger
https://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/find-meals

CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/managing-stress-anxiety.html


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Advice from a Child Psychiatrist
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/child-psychiatrist-offers-advice-about-how-to-reassure-kids-during-covid-19-crisis

A Comic Exploring Coronavirus
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/28/809580453/just-for-kids-a-comic-exploring-the-new-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR31G2xYmiPWZ9axa6JKoBcnZp554QGF4bID06Z6Q3OY2CM0GOLO63dC8CE

Talking with Children about Coronavirus
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/talking-with-children.html


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🆕How Teenagers Can Protect Their Mental Health During  Coronavirus
https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/how-teenagers-can-protect-their-mental-health-during-coronavirus-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR31hGM26Wja1YT6Mdd8b5PSFS8gHInr0VekohXxs22UQTx8CTjbmm-wnlI 

Facts about the Crisis:
https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/facing-the-college-mental-health-crisis/ 

Learning to Cope:
https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/mental-health-crisis-learning-how-to-cope/
 
Maintaining Physical and Mental Health:
https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/mental-physical-health-college/


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🆕100 Things to Do When You Are Stuck Inside

🆕Free Audio Books

Hudson River Museum’s Museum from Home 

Wide Open School 

California Science Center’s Stuck at Home Science

ABCMouse.Com

Scholastic Learn at Home

NYSED/PBS 

A Space to Breathe Over the next six weeks of free online classes they will explore the following themes: anchoring, connection, restoration, body awareness, empowerment and resilience. You will have the opportunity to build stability and grounding by practicing a theme over the course of one week, with one of Exhale to Inhale’s Fellows. They are offering the same class two times a day at 7:15 AM and 6:15 PM, Monday through Friday. No prior yoga experience (or mat) required.

Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips

Zoo Atlanta’s Panda Cam

Georgia Aquarium’s Ocean Voyager Cam

Monterrey Bay Aquarium’s Jelly Cam

Nature Works Everywhere

Yellowstone Park

Great Lakes Now

Boston Children’s Museum

Census Bureau

Smithsonian

National Aquarium

List of Free Online Event and Activities for Kids at Home

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