The Collective Resources

The Collective offers numerous mental health resources for students and educators. These resources are created and provided by our Collective partners. All our resources are free and downloadable. 

Believe In You focuses on building school connections, empowering future leaders and promoting mental health awareness for students and educators through the use of empowerment programs, video series, professional development and a speaking tour.

The Believe in You Student Empowerment Program, designed around proactive mental health, provides free resources to help teachers facilitate social and emotional development. Interactive Student Empowerment Journals are now available in free digital formats.

Empowerment Program

This free program is designed to cultivate student leadership and provide proactive mental health support for all students. This program is designed to be used in leadership classes as well as student clubs and leadership organizations.

Student Leadership Program

The American Heart Association offers the Kids Heart Challenge and American Heart Challenge school programs that provide unique age-appropriate curriculum and activities. Students and educators have the tools needed to learn social and emotional skills and how to take care of their physical and mental health and well-being.

Building on key learnings from 43 years in America’s schools, the Kids Heart Challenge focuses on whole body wellness, helping students improve their own health and better their character while raising life-saving donations for the American Heart Association to help kids facing heart-health issues.

Kids Heart Challenge

The American Heart Challenge is a service-learning program that gives middle and high school students the opportunity to feel good by doing good. Students will raise funds and awareness to fight for health equity and to end heart disease and stroke.

American Heart Challenge

Crisis Text Line provides free 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention by empowering a community of trained volunteers to support people in their moments of need.

Get ready to prioritize your mental health and self-care this school year. You can  reduce stress and anxiety with this planner, which is designed to support you in key areas of wellness and greatness.

Self Care Student Planner

For all teachers and parents out there, this toolkit is especially designed for YOU. Get ahead of the game by identifying the signs of stress and anxiety in teens and prepare yourself on how to constructively offer support.

Educator and Parent Toolkit

The GoBeGreat Foundation celebrates difference-makers and overcomers, those who serve with kindness and selflessness while sharing their gifts, talents and opportunities with others. It encourages perseverance, leadership and community.

GoBeGreaters have served all over the country with causes including the Special Olympics, Salvation Army, suicide prevention, food banks, and breast cancer awareness. As well as many causes that hit closer to home for many affiliated with the organization. Events and fundraisers to support fellow athletes battling illnesses, families in need, and general community service projects are also contributions made by GoBeGreat volunteers.

About Go Be Great

We believe everyone is created for greatness and want to celebrate those that use their gifts, talents and opportunities to positively impact the lives of others! Check out our Go Be Great scholarship award winners.

GBG Award Winners

The Look for the Good Project offers community-care programs for K – 6 school communities to create a sense of safety and belonging and undo unwilled and unwanted aloneness. Students, parents, and educators learn how to unite their communities with gratitude and wiggle their stress into strength using a variety of trauma-informed empowerment tools.

The Kids Wiggle Warrior® Challenge is a free, online activity to help kids and their caregivers learn how to constructively use stressful feelings to identify their needs and make healthy choices. This program is perfect for parents of K – 3 kids.

Kids Wiggle Warrior® Challenge

Access the free digital copy of It’s Okay Not To Be Okay. This interactive book will teach kids to work with their stress instead of against it. Just shake and tap the book to befriend the Mad, Sad, Icky, and Afraid characters inside.

It’s Okay Not To Be Okay

OPEN PhysEd strives to improve the effectiveness of physical education for every child. They help teachers help their students by providing rigorous, outcomes-based curriculum tools to every physical education educator.

Growth mindset is developed through experience, struggle, failure, and triumph. Minute to Win challenges are designed to be a safe place for students to experience and understand this journey. This module is written for intermediate grade levels and can also be used at the middle school level.

Minute to Win

OPEN has all your Back to School needs! The free resources below are designed to help students build relationships, routines, and a love of health-enhancing physical activity.

Back To School

Erika’s Lighthouse is dedicated to their mission of providing free mental health programs to any school, anywhere. Their four pillars of Classroom Education, Empowerment Clubs, Family Engagement, and School Policy & Staff work together to give educators the tools to promote inclusive cultures around school mental health.

Classroom Education is focused on depression education in schools. Focused on grades 4-12, these no-cost, skills-based programs use diverse teen voices to spread awareness and reduce stigma.

Classroom Education Programs

Visit erikaslighthouse.org to access FREE activities and resources to spread positivity and awareness about mental health school-wide! The Take a Compliment poster is a great way to put smiles on faces throughout the school year.

Take A Compliment Poster

Holistic Performance Center™ is an Integrative Sport and Performing Arts Psychology Practice. Our mission is to assist clients in achieving overall mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Thank you for choosing us to join your performance journey!

In August of 2000, after experiencing paralysis on the left side of her body, Leneé received a heartbreaking diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Grateful to utilize her dance and Kinesiology education, Leneé regained mobility and strength in what her doctors deemed “record timing”.

About Leneé’s Journey

Schedule a holistic class with the Holistic Performance Center. Choose from Speaking Engagements, Cheerleader and Dancer Mental Skills Performance, Film, Music, Television, and Theatre Performance, and Self Care for Seniors.

Holistic Sessions