Mental Health Resources
These resources support the social, emotional, and psychological needs of our families.
Subcategories include: Behavioral Support, Bullying, Counseling, Crisis Intervention, Grief & Bereavement, Suicide Prevention & Support
America’s Poison Centers
This is the official site of America’s Poison Centers, representing the nation’s 55 poison centers in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, and Health Resources and Services Administration.
Get fast, free, and confidential poison help by calling, texting, or chatting online with the center.
Este es el sitio oficial de los Centros de Toxicología de Estados Unidos, que representan los 55 centros de intoxicación del país en asociación con los Centros para el Control de Enfermedades, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos y la Administración de Recursos y Servicios de Salud.
Obtenga ayuda rápida, gratuita y confidencial contra intoxicaciones llamando, enviando mensajes de texto o chateando en línea con el centro.
Any Baby Can
Since 1982, Any Baby Can has been a safety net for families in need. Providing direction and guidance for families of children and youth with special needs is at the heart of this organization.
Desde 1982, Any Baby Can ha sido una red de seguridad para familias necesitadas. Brindar dirección y orientación a familias de niños y jóvenes con necesidades especiales es el corazón de esta organización.
Bexar County Family Justice Center
The Family Justice Center (FJC) is a collaborative community response to domestic violence. It is the co-location of a multidisciplinary team of professionals who work together, under one roof, to provide coordinated services to victims of domestic violence. The FJC brings together, in one place, numerous domestic violence organizations which represent government, private, non-profit, and faith-based communities.
Big Mama’s Safe House
Safe House that promotes conflict resolution with education, gun safety, trauma informed training to help end gun violence
Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas
Dedicated to serving the children affected by the loss of a loved one.
ChildSafe
Providing families with forensic interview services, Counseling, Family Support for children victims and child survivors of abuse and neglect and their non offending family members
City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District Tobacco Cessation Resources
Smoking Cessation Classes and Resources from the City of San Antonio.
City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health Tobacco and Vaping Information
For the first time since 2000, overall youth tobacco use has increased in San Antonio.
The boom of e-cigarettes and other vaping devices has reversed the trend of declining teen tobacco use. Tobacco 21 was introduced in San Antonio and by September 1, 2019 it became a state law in Texas.
It is important to remind parents, teachers, and guardians to help children understand the risks of vaping and to take control of their health.
Por primera vez desde el año 2000, el consumo general de tabaco entre los jóvenes ha aumentado en San Antonio.
El auge de los cigarrillos electrónicos y otros dispositivos de vapeo ha revertido la tendencia de disminución del consumo de tabaco entre los adolescentes. Tobacco 21 se introdujo en San Antonio y el 1 de septiembre de 2019 se convirtió en ley estatal en Texas.
Es importante recordar a los padres, maestros y tutores que ayuden a los niños a comprender los riesgos del vapeo y a tomar control de su salud.
COLLEGE PLANNING GUIDE FOR STUDENTS WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS
This is an extensive guide to help students navigate the programs and policies supporting mental health. Topics covered range from understanding their rights to potential accommodations, tips on accessing mental health services, and scholarships available specifically to them.
CommuniCare Health Centers
A full-service primary healthcare system with multiple locations.
Cyber Bullying Research Center
Offering a variety of resources on how to prevent cyberbullying. Tailored for both students and adults.
David’s Legacy Foundation
Offering resources to parents and families centered around David’s law to prevent cyberbullying.
DUI Resources: A Guide to Charges, Treatment, and Supportive Services
Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol can put someone in serious legal and financial jeopardy. Yet there are several support services to help people who have received a DUI, including substance abuse treatment and other resources.
Empower House
Empower House provides transformative community health services, youth development programs, and advocacy opportunities that empower women and girls of color.
Empower House ofrece servicios de salud comunitarios transformadores, programas de desarrollo juvenil y oportunidades de promoción que empoderan a mujeres y niñas de color.
Fentanyl: One Pill Kills
Fighting the Fentanyl Crisis
Five Texans die every day, on average, from fentanyl poisoning. Understanding the dangers of fentanyl is crucial in reducing the threat it poses to you and your loved ones.
Luchando contra la crisis del fentanilo
Cinco tejanos mueren cada día, en promedio, por intoxicación por fentanilo. Comprender los peligros del fentanilo es crucial para reducir la amenaza que representa para usted y sus seres queridos.
Get Smart About Drugs
Courtesy of the Drug Enforcement Administration, this page is a resource for parents, educators, and caregivers. Get informed about all the various illegal drugs and the paraphernalia associated. Learn how to identify the drugs and their effects on a person. Educate yourself on all of the new trends that drug enforcement officials are identifying in the field. Get familiar with the consequences associated with illegal drugs. Find help if you or a family member is struggling with addiction.
Cortesía de la Administración para el Control de Drogas (DEA), esta página es un recurso para padres, educadores y cuidadores. Infórmese sobre las diversas drogas ilegales y la parafernalia asociada. Aprenda a identificar las drogas y sus efectos en una persona. Infórmese sobre todas las nuevas tendencias que los funcionarios antidrogas están identificando en el campo. Familiarícese con las consecuencias asociadas con las drogas ilegales. Encuentre ayuda si usted o un miembro de su familia está luchando contra la adicción.
Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent’s Guide to Substance Use Prevention
Parenting can be the greatest job on earth—and the toughest. You want your children to be healthy, but you worry about what they will
do when faced with the decision to try drugs or alcohol.
This guide offers information that can help you raise children who understand the risks of substance use.
Handle With Care
Promotes a school-community partnership aimed at ensuring that children who are exposed to trauma in their home or community receive appropriate interventions to help them heal and thrive to the best of their ability despite the traumatic circumstances they experienced.
Helping Children Cope During COVID Resources
Empower children about what they can do to remain healthy – good handwashing, covering sneezes & coughs, and helping with household cleaning and sanitizing.
Highlighter Vape Pens Article
Highlighter vape pens add a new layer of haze to school prevention efforts.
Schools are getting creative in how they address vaping as a wider range of disguises for the devices make it easier for students to conceal them.
Information on Childhood Bullying & Glasses
Wearing glasses as a child can increase the risk of being bullied. Learn more about how to identify the signs and what to do about it.
Joven – Prevention Services
This program works with all children regardless of their background to build life skills and healthy habits by sharing Center for Substance Abuse prevention curricula taught in school-based setting and out-of-school time (OST) sites.
Healthy Tips for a Drug-Free Life: Get text messages every two weeks with advice on encouraging youth to make healthy choices and information on drug-free events. Text DRUGFREETX ENGL to 468311
Este programa trabaja con todos los niños, independientemente de sus antecedentes, para desarrollar habilidades para la vida y hábitos saludables al compartir los planes de estudio de prevención del Centro para el Abuso de Sustancias que se imparten en entornos escolares y en sitios fuera del horario escolar (OST).
Consejos saludables para una vida libre de drogas: reciba mensajes de texto cada dos semanas con consejos sobre cómo alentar a los jóvenes a tomar decisiones saludables e información sobre eventos libres de drogas. Texto LIBREDEDROGAS ESPL a 468311
JOVEN Counseling and Support Groups
JOVEN is a comprehensive agency that includes outreach services, counseling, and structured activities for high-risk youth and their families.
Latched Support
Program provides individual and group sessions that contain tailored topics geared to promote healthy pregnancies, educaiton regarding parenting and learn best practices for pregnancy related care of students.
MEDucation: A Dose of Knowledge
Adults get a good dose of knowledge about prescription drug abuse among adolescents through the MEDucation Guide.
This comprehensive guide teaches parents lessons on the problem of abuse and the solutions available.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving – Concerned Citizen Assistance
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) counts on concerned citizens like you to help us put an end to impaired driving and underage drinking.
Here are ways you can help put an end to these 100% preventable crimes.
National Bullying Prevention Center
Offering a variety of resources, and tools to teach students how to prevent bullying and promote kindness, acceptance, and inclusion.
PTSD and Car Accidents
Many are not aware of the connection between PTSD and car accidents, a car accident can be traumatizing for any person involved. It can make getting back behind the wheel seem impossible. Please visit this comprehensive guide about PTSD after car accidents.
QUITXT – Deja De Fumar Empieza A Vivir
¿Sabías que se ha comprobado que el apoyo con mensajes de texto duplican tus chances de dejar de fumar?
Deja de fumar para siempre con Quitxt, un servicio gratis que transforma tu celular en un coach personal y te envía mensajes para motivarte a dejar el hábito, fijar una fecha para dejar de fumar, ayuda en tiempo real para manejar el estrés y más.
Los mensajes también tienen enlaces a apoyo técnico en línea y a videos educativos con música, y testimonios reales de Tejanos que han dejado de fumar.
QUITXT – Quit Smoking Start Living
Did you know text message support is scientifically proven to double your odds of quitting smoking?
Quit smoking for good with Quitxt, a free service that turns your phone into a personal quit coach by providing text messages with motivation to quit, setting a quit date, real-time help handling stress, and more.
Texts also link to online support from UT Health San Antonio and educational videos, music, and real-life testimonials from Texans who have quit.
Red Ribbon Week Activities for Families
Here are some ideas to make this year’s Red Ribbon Week Celebration the BEST yet!
Roy Maas Youth Alternatives
Helping children, families, and young adults with counseling and short term psychiatric needs.
SAISD CARE Team
The Child Assistance, Remediation, and Evaluation (CARE) Team helps students who are in crisis situations that might lead to emergency detainment.
SAISD Communities In Schools
Provides counseling services for SAISD students
SAISD Counselors
The SAISD counselors implement the four school counseling components: guidance curriculum, individual planning, responsive services and systems support. How can we help serve your student today?
SAISD Disability Services: Parent Support Programs
Parent Programs is a support provided to families of students with IEPs that help strengthen home, school and community partnerships. Services include informational groups, resource connection and support from Parent Liaisons and Social Workers.
SAISD Early Childhood Department Counseling & Social Services
Resources available for family issues affecting student’s adjustment to school such as: Accessing services for students with special health care needs; Behavioral or social emotional concerns; Family stressors such as, but not limited to homelessness, grief/loss, domestic violence, and divorce.
SAISD McKinney-Vento Services
Works with families and unaccompanied youth that live in a temporary situation due to loss of housing.
SAISD Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS)
PBIS is an evidence-based three tiered framework used to improve practices affecting student outcomes every day.
SAISD Restorative Practices
Provides behavior support to students in a manner that promotes meaningful accountability and teaches social emotional skills.
SAISD SEAD Specialist Support
Specialists are available to provide behavioral resources for students in the school and home.
SAISD Social Workers
Our social workers work directly with school administrators as well as students and families, providing leadership in forming mental health intervention, crisis management, and support services.
SAISD Test Anxiety Parent Guide
This resource describes the common symptoms of test anxiety, and strategies that students can use before, during, and after tests.
SAISD Trauma-Informed Response Guide
This guide provides information on common student reactions to traumatic situations and how adults can help.
San Antonio Council of Alcohol and Drug Awareness (SACADA)
Empowering our community to live healthy lives; by providing prevention, intervention, and recovery support services for children and adults.
The San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Awareness (SACADA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides education, youth prevention programs, information resources and services to prevent alcohol and drug abuse. We serve nearly 90,000 people in Bexar County and 28 surrounding counties in South Central Texas.
Most services are at no charge to the community.
Empoderar a nuestra comunidad para vivir una vida saludable; brindando servicios de prevención, intervención y apoyo a la recuperación para niños y adultos.
El Consejo de San Antonio para la Concientización sobre el Alcohol y las Drogas (SACADA) es una organización sin fines de lucro 501(c)3 que brinda educación, programas de prevención para jóvenes, recursos de información y servicios para prevenir el abuso de alcohol y drogas. Atendemos a casi 90,000 personas en el condado de Bexar y 28 condados circundantes en el centro sur de Texas.
La mayoría de los servicios son gratuitos para la comunidad.
San Antonio ISD School Safety: Vaping 101
Despite myths that vapes only contain “harmless water vapor,” that is not the case.
This brief video will give you information regarding the facts, real dangers, and consequences of vaping.
Soles Walking 4 Souls – Fentanyl Awareness Walk
Join us for a powerful event that aims to raise awareness about the dangers of fentanyl! Lace up your walking shoes and head over to 2532 Sidney Brooks Drive, San Antonio, TX, USA for a day filled with purpose and community.
At Soles Walking 4 Souls, we believe in the power of collective action. Together, we can make a difference and combat the fentanyl crisis. By walking side by side, we will bring attention to the devastating impact of this dangerous drug.
Our event is all about spreading awareness and educating others. Together, we will raise our voices and take a stand against fentanyl. So grab your friends, family, and even your furry companions and join us on this meaningful journey.
Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to make a real impact and show your support. See you at the Soles Walking 4 Souls for Fentanyl Awareness Walk!
¡Únase a nosotros en un poderoso evento que tiene como objetivo crear conciencia sobre los peligros del fentanilo! Átese los zapatos para caminar y diríjase a 2532 Sidney Brooks Drive, San Antonio, TX, EE. UU. para pasar un día lleno de propósito y comunidad.
En Soles Walking 4 Souls creemos en el poder de la acción colectiva. Juntos podemos marcar la diferencia y combatir la crisis del fentanilo. Al caminar uno al lado del otro, llamaremos la atención sobre el impacto devastador de esta peligrosa droga.
Nuestro evento tiene como objetivo crear conciencia y educar a otros. Juntos alzaremos la voz y adoptaremos una postura contra el fentanilo. Así que reúne a tus amigos, familiares e incluso a tus compañeros peludos y únete a nosotros en este viaje significativo.
No pierdas esta increíble oportunidad de generar un impacto real y mostrar tu apoyo. ¡Nos vemos en la caminata de concientización Soles Walking 4 Souls for Fentanyl!
TABC Social Hosting and Underage Drinking Quick Guide
This quick guide from the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission will guide you through the facts, consequences, and prevention tips regarding social hosting and underage drinking.
Talk with Your Teen About E-cigarettes: A Tip Sheet for Parents
This tip sheet is brought to you courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Tips shared include Preparation Before Talking to Your Teen, Starting the Conversation, Answering Your Teen’s Questions, and How to Keep the Conversation Going.
Texas Crime Victims Compensation (Attorney General)
The Crime Victims’ Compensation (CVC) Program helps crime victims and their immediate families with the financial costs of crime. CVC covers crime-related costs such as counseling, medical treatment, funerals, and loss of income not paid by other sources.
Texas School Safety Center – Texas Bullying Laws
Offering families legal resources centered around bullying prevention.
Texas Suicide Prevention Collaborative
Offering a wide variety of support services to individuals in need, or who have lost a loved one.
The Social and Health Research Center
The Social & Health Research Center is committed to improving the social and health well-being of populations at-risk. The Social and Health Research Center expects to improve health behaviors with innovative and evidence-based health programs to control chronic diseases such as obesity, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes and to design better instruments to evaluate program effectiveness.
The Trevor Project
Offering support to LGBTQ+ individuals in need.
The YMCA of Greater San Antonio
For over 140 years, we have been listening and responding to our community’s most critical social needs, ensuring that everyone has the chance to learn, grow, and thrive, regardless of age, income, ability, ethnicity, or faith. We focus on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility, and incorporate core values of caring, honesty, respect, responsibility, and faith into all we do.
At the YMCA we are more than a gym, we are a community with something for everyone in your family.
We offer:
State-of-the-art fitness facilities at 12 locations across San Antonio & Boerne, Cibolo, New Braunfels, & Schertz
Early Learning Centers Childhood 2 San Antonio locations
School-age after-school programs
Youth sports
Swim Lessons
Durante más de 140 años, hemos escuchado y respondido a las necesidades sociales más críticas de nuestra comunidad, asegurando que todos tengan la oportunidad de aprender, crecer y prosperar, independientemente de su edad, ingresos, capacidad, origen étnico o fe. Nos centramos en el desarrollo juvenil, la vida saludable y la responsabilidad social, e incorporamos valores fundamentales de cariño, honestidad, respeto, responsabilidad y fe en todo lo que hacemos.
En YMCA somos más que un gimnasio, somos una comunidad con algo para todos los miembros de su familia.
Ofrecemos:
Instalaciones de fitness de última generación en 12 ubicaciones en San Antonio y Boerne, Cibolo, New Braunfels y Schertz
Centros de Aprendizaje Temprano Infancia 2 ubicaciones en San Antonio
Programas extraescolares para niños en edad escolar
deportes juveniles
Lecciones de natación
Youth for Christ
Program provides faith neutral individual and group sessions that contain tailored topics geared to promote healthy relationships, parenting skills, self-care, life skills, financial literacy and mentorship.