Tools: Health
The Tools You Need
These are our favorite resources we've gathered to incorporate into our work aimed at helping people with disabilities achieve their employment goals.
- Relaxation Technique Cards: Practice Deep Breathing - Quick start guide to relaxation and stress reduction.
- My Plan to Manage Stress from Before Age 18 - No matter how old we are, we all deal with stress. Learn what works for you – get your custom plan to be less stressed!
- Before Age 18: My Plan to Get Better Sleep - Get tips on developing good sleep habits and ways to help you fall asleep.
- My Plan to Be More Active from Before Age 18 - Want to be more active? Improve your health and have fun – get your custom plan!
- Healthy Eating Activity from Before Age 18 - How can you improve your health by changing what you eat? Get your custom plan!
- Relaxation Technique Cards: Progressive Muscle Relaxation - Quick start guide to relaxation and stress reduction.
- Relaxation Technique Cards: Music for Relaxation - Quick start guide to relaxation and stress reduction.
- Relaxation Technique Cards: Practice Meditation - Quick start guide to relaxation and stress reduction.
- Preparing For Adulthood: Taking Charge of My Own Health Care - PACER Center’s Youth Advisory Board on mental health discuss topics related to transitioning from pediatric health care to adult heath care. This 4-part series includes topics on coordinating health care, how medical providers and teachers can help youth take charge of their own health care, preparing for medical appointments, and guardianship.
- Got Transition - Resources for health care professionals, youth, young adults, and their families to improve transition from pediatric to adult health care.
- Transitioning to Adult Health Care - Information and resources to support youth transitioning to adult health care. From the Minnesota Department of Health.
- Promoting Physical and Mental Well-Being as well as Safety for Students with Disabilities - Provides information and resources for school professionals, students and families regarding information supporting the health and safety of students with disabilities. Developed by Florida's Project 10: Transition Education Network.
- My Health, My Choice, My Responsibility - An group training program focusing on advocating for healthy choices on a daily basis. Topics include being a self-advocate at medical appointments, physical activity, nutrition, being safe and healthy at home, and feelings. Developed by the Westchester Institute for Human Development.
- Physical Activity Tools and Resources - We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition) is a national movement designed to give parents, caregivers, and entire communities a way to help children 8 to 13 years old stay at a healthy weight.
- How to Quit Smoking - From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Use the Wellbeing Model to Reduce Stress - From the University of Minnesota - learn more about managing stress and taking steps to react to it in healthy, positive ways.
- Sleep: Taking Charge of Your Health & Well-Being - From the University of Minnesota - research shows that healthy sleep is a vital component of a flourishing life. Sleep deprivation, like starvation, can have damaging consequences to health and wellbeing. Learning to prioritize sleep in your life, create healthy sleeping patterns, and effectively manage sleep-related disorders can have a powerful effect on your overall well-being as well as the community, society, and culture within which you live and work.
- Self-directed Health Care Kit: Taking Charge of Your Own Health - from the Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities
- Disability and Health Information for Specific Groups - Disability and Health Promotion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Materials and Multimedia about Disability and Health - Disability and Health Promotion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Reaching People with Disabilities through Healthy Communities - Disability and Health Promotion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Healthy dating and relationships - Loveisrespect is the ultimate resource to empower youth to prevent and end dating abuse. It is a project of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
- Promote mental health and well-being - From MedlinePlus - an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends.
- Tips for youth in managing health and well-being
- Promoting Health for Children and Adolescents - Get helpful factsheets from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.