Family Digital Wellness Guide
Helpful Links
If you’re experiencing an emergency, please call 911
For Immediate Help
If you are in crisis and need to talk to someone, the following resources are available:
Crisis Text Line offers 24/7 mental health and crisis intervention support via chat or via text message.
- Text HOME to 741741
- Access the chat function on their website
- Send a message via WhatsApp
National Domestic Violence Hotline offers 24/7 support and intervention for those experiencing violence in the home.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline offers 24/7 support for those in distress and for their family and loved ones.
- Call 988 to reach a crisis counselor
- Access the chat function on their website
The Trevor Project offers resources and crisis intervention for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, & questioning young people
- Call 1-866-488-7386
- Text START to 678678
- Access the chat function on their website
The Partnership to End Addiction offers resources and intervention support for families of youth struggling with substance use.
- Make an appointment to speak to a specialist
- Text CONNECT to 55753
- Email a specialist using this form
- Call 1-800-799-SAFE
- Text START to 88788
- Access the chat function on their website
Parenting Support & Child and Adolescent Development
There are many organizations offering additional resources on child and adolescent development, parenting approaches, and digital wellness. We recommend the following for additional information:
- Zero to Three
- Child Mind Institute
- Healthy Children from the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
- Learning for Justice
- BabyCenter
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Child Development Institute
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
- Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
- Sesame Street in Communities
- PBS Parents
- JED Foundation