Riverside School PTA Health & Wellness Committee 2024-2025
Sub-Committee Name | Chairs |
Allergy Awareness | Allison Minde |
Beautification | Kate Jamieson, Heeyoon Slater |
Garden Club | Laura Luckenbach, Jenn Lacovara (Co-Chairs) |
Green Schools | Hillary Harper, Silvia Romano (Co-Chairs) |
Wellness | Diana Mehlman, Liz Fazzino (Co-Chairs) |
The VP of the Health & Wellness Committee is Jackie Dowling.
This year we hope to spark some conversations amongst parents, with teachers, and most of all with our children about how we use technology as a tool, and how we protect ourselves from the dangers inherent in it. We will also attempt to bring tools and conversation about our mental wellbeing in an effort to reduce stigmas and help each other to find ways to reach out and reduce feelings of shame, isolation, and anxiety.
Here you will find some resources to help you get started:
Resources for Parents on Digital and Tech Wellness:
Video:
Books:
- Creating a Tech-Healthy Family: Ten Must-Have Conversations to Help You Worry Less and Connect More With Your Kids by Andrea Davis
- Behind their Screens by Emily Weinstein
Guides and Tools to work with at home with your children or just to educate yourself:
- Digital Safety Resources Tools for the Home
- Reviews for what your kids are into (before they get into it)
- Family Engagement Toolkit
- Family Media Agreement
- A resource some schools are using to proactively work with digital wellness
- https://consumer.ftc.gov/identity-theft-and-online-security/protecting-kids-online
- Family Online Safety Institute
- Parent’s guide to Cyberbullying
Resources for Parents on Mental & Emotional Wellness:
Upcoming Dates
- Friday, December 6
- Wednesday, December 11
- Thursday, December 12
- Friday, December 13
- Tuesday, December 17
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2024-2025 District Calendar
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