MENTAL HEALTH PARENT WORKSHOP PRESENTATION Stress Anxiety Suicide Prevention

Looking for a comprehensive, ready-to-use parent mental health workshop that helps families understand childhood anxiety, big feelings, behavior, communication, resilience, and when to seek additional support? Our Mental Health Parent Workshop for Grades 2–5 provides school counselors, psychologists, social workers, therapists, and educators with an engaging 34-slide PowerPoint presentation plus an extensive Parent Support Toolkit filled with practical strategies, parent scripts, coping tools, family activities, and take-home resources.

Designed to move beyond simply identifying warning signs, this workshop helps parents look beneath behavior, understand what may be driving emotional reactions, respond to worry and anxiety, strengthen connection, build resilience, and recognize when a child may need additional mental health support.

WORKSHOP TOPICS INCLUDE:

1. UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH — Understand what mental health looks like in childhood, common emotional challenges, what may be happening beneath behavior, and how to recognize patterns that may need closer attention.
2. BIG FEELINGS & BEHAVIOR — Explore why children can have BIG reactions, what anger, refusal and shutdown may communicate, and how to respond with connection, regulation and clear boundaries.
3. WORRY & ANXIETY — Understand how anxiety can show up in thoughts, the body and behavior, including separation anxiety, perfectionism, reassurance-seeking and avoidance — and learn how small, supported steps can build coping and confidence.
4. CONNECTION & COMMUNICATION — Learn how to listen, validate and stay curious without immediately fixing, correcting or reassuring, while strengthening friendships, belonging and trusted connections.
5. BUILDING RESILIENCE & SUPPORT — Learn how to support without rescuing, help children tolerate manageable challenges and mistakes, build confidence through coping, and recognize when additional professional support may be needed.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

• 34-slide Parent Mental Health PowerPoint Presentation

• Editable PowerPoint text — customize wording, examples, school information, support contacts, or remove slides to suit your workshop (design/background elements are fixed)

• Editable Parent Workshop Invitation/Flyer

• Parent Support Toolkit & take-home handouts

• “What Might Be Underneath?” Behavior Decoder with 12 common childhood behaviors, possible underlying needs, and parent scripts

• When Feelings Get Big Parent Quick Guide — Pause, Connect, Calm, Hold the Boundary, Coach & Repair

• Helping My Child Through Worry parent handout

• Know When to Reach Out mental health warning signs and support guide

• Build Your Child’s Coping Toolbox

• 18 printable coping strategy cards

• Family Check-In Roll & Reflect activity

• Parent/Child Connection & Relational Activities

• Parent Workshop Reflection/Evaluation Form

Perfect for elementary school parent workshops, school counseling programs, family engagement nights, parent education, mental health awareness events, school psychologists, social workers, therapists, and counseling teams. A comprehensive, practical and parent-friendly mental health workshop designed to help families move from “What is happening?” to “How can I support my child?”