Family Corner

• Community Advocates Pdf (click here)   https://communityadvocates.net/

• Call 211

  • Access county resources(in general)

  • https://211wisconsin.communityos.org/

  • Can text COVID19 to 211-211 for information and resources

• Tenant Resource Center

• Optum Public Crisis Line offers a toll-free emotional support helpline available to anyone. Caring professionals will connect you to resources. It’s open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Call: 866-342-6802.

• Doctor on Demand: Medical care and mental health care available with insurance. It’s an app that can be downloaded to your phone.

• MindStar: Are able to do telehealth sessions. 414-435-1115

• Family Healing and Wellness Center  414-367-8793

• Parent Helpline: 414-671-0566 – talk to a live person for any parenting support needed
  Mon. – Thurs. 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM, Fri. 8:30 AM-3:00 PM

• IMPACT 2-1-1 responds after hours

• Mental Health America and COVID-19 Resource List: 

• SupportGroups: 
  
  Website featuring 200+ online support groups.

• For Like Minds: 
  Online mental health support network that allows for individuals to connect with others who are living with or supporting someone with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, and stressful life events.

• 18percent: 
  Offers a free, peer-to-peer online support community for those struggling with a wide range of mental health issues.

• Psych Central: 
  Offers online mental health resources, quizzes, news, an “Ask the Therapist” function, and online support communities.

• 7 Cups: 
  Free online text chat with a trained listener for emotional support and counseling. Also offers fee- for-service online therapy with a licensed mental health professional. Service/website also offered in Spanish.

• Emotions Anonymous: 
  An international fellowship of people who desire to have a better sense of emotional well-being. The EA is nonprofessional and can be a complement to therapy.

• MHA’s Inspire Community: 
  An online community where people can connect with others. MHA hosts a dedicated mental health community, but there are communities related to a variety of topics.

• Lyf App: download app at 
  Lyf is a social media app where users share highly personal aspects of themselves without the fear of judgment. It’s the one app where you can be yourself or write anonymously and people won’t degrade or bring you down.

• Warmlines: 
  A warmline is a peer-run listening line staffed by people in recovery themselves.

• SAMHSA’s National Helpline: Call 1-800-662-4357
  SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Disaster Distress Helpline:
  Call 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746

• Disaster Distress Helpline: Call 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746.
  The Disaster Distress Helpline (DDH) provides crisis counseling and support for anyone in the U.S. experiencing distress or other behavioral health concerns related to any natural or human-caused disaster, including public health emergencies.

• Crisis Text Line: text MHA to 741741
  You’ll be connected to a trained Crisis Counselor. Crisis Text Line provides free, text-based support 24/7

• Online AA Meetings

Find your voting information here:

• Vote 411
• MyVote WI

Find affordable, fun ways to stay active in Milwaukee:

• MKE Rec
• Active Milwaukee!
• Milwaukee County Parks

MILWAUKEE COUNTY:

• The Milwaukee County Department on Aging is offering home delivery and some meal pick up options.

• Milwaukee residents older than age 60 who meet certain income requirements can get a free box of healthy food from the Hunger Task Force. Call at 414-777-0483

INTRODUCING TEACH FROM HOME

To support the hundreds of millions of students and educators currently facing school closures, we’re introducing Teach from Home—a hub providing information, tips, training and tools to help remote teaching and learning.
Recent weeks have been especially challenging for teachers, students, and families as schools close and normal routines are disrupted. This transition is all the more daunting for educators who aren’t yet comfortable using technology, let alone our tools, so we want to make it easier to get started. To help with that, we’ve developed Teach from Home, a temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during this crisis. You’ll find resources to enable remote instruction, student engagement, collaboration with peers, and more.

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Check out the Google for Education blog

FOR TEACHERS

Here are the Google Classroom tutorials for teachers

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https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/first-day-trainings/welcome-to-classroom

https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2019/02/google-classroom-basics-for-teachers.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCNImsWUxZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDBO40_qmt4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOUEP29MX58

For More Grade level IT Resources Read more on our IT website www.mesait.org