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 Supporting Mental Well-being During COVID-19 

​It’s normal to be experiencing increased stress and anxiety right now. It is important to be gentle with yourself and others, and to take steps to support both your own and your family’s mental well-being. Consider these tips to support your mental well-being during the COVID-19 response.
22 of the Best Meditation Apps & Sites to Master Meditation Practice

​There are a range of meditation apps available with features that target different meditating techniques, methods, and practices. Whether you are seeking mindfulness, stress relief, improved sleep, guided courses, personalization, music, or other unique features, you’ll be able to find a meditation app that fits your lifestyle.
How to Reset Your Sleep Routine
Sleep is a vital, often neglected, component of every person’s overall health and well-being. Sleep is important because it enables the body to repair and be fit and ready for another day. Sleep is vital for people of any age. For teens, though, profound mental, physical, social, and emotional development requires quality sleep.
#StayConnectedMinnesota: Mental well-being and Covid-19 communication toolkit
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This toolkit provides information, messaging, and resources for people to use in their lives, with their loved ones, and anywhere in the community. Connection is one of the most important things for our mental well-being, and staying connected is one of greatest challenges from COVID-19. These messages focus on the importance of staying connected to our neighbors, loved ones, and the environment around us, and provide some tips on how to help. 
Washington Post Blog!

My bright teen is skipping homework and failing classes, and I don't know what to do
Phone Apps to Manage screen time
 
AppBlock: AppBlock does the task of blocking apps for a certain duration. To start off, you can create and name profiles which define the days and time for which they are active, along with the apps to be blocked.

Stay Focused: This app will help you stay focused while you’re studying and not get distracted by all the other apps on your smartphone. The app is capable of blocking all apps on your smartphone unless you whitelist them and it even allows you to set daily/hourly usage for apps, after which they’ll be blocked. The app also gives you daily insights on your usage patterns, which will help you figure out which apps you’re wasting the most time on. The app is quite useful if you often find yourself being distracted by social media apps like Instagram and is a must have for all students using an Android device.
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** In case you’re using a Pixel device, you don’t need these apps as you get access to Google’s Digital Wellbeing app which does pretty much the same thing. iOS users also get similar functionality with Screen Time, however, there are no other third-party apps on the App Store that offer the same functionality.

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