Tools you can use as a parent to empower your child to seek help
When things start to feel like they are getting too much, it is essential that young people find their own ways to get help. While they may open up to you or a trusted teacher, family member or friendship group, in many cases, they won't know how to.
So how can we equip them with the skills and resources required to seek help before they even know they need it?
That's where preventative tools like YourCrew come in.
Building strong support networks
Ensuring young people have a safe space to be themselves and know they have a strong support network to whom they can reach out when things get tough is vital. Identifying their true friends and adult supporters is a crucial first step in ensuring they have a safe network that will always have their back. YourCrew empowers users to identify this network by allowing them to invite trusted people to Crew for them.
Tracking moods and understanding patterns
Enabling young people to better understand their moods and negative thought patterns is essential for stopping smaller things from becoming big problems. If they can identify continuous periods of low moods and bad days, they are more likely to understand something may be wrong and seek help. Providing tools like personal journals and mood-tracking calendars, as YourCrew does, can play a huge role in helping young people address their thoughts and feelings head-on so they are more likely to take action when they see thought patterns forming. This is particularly important for those young people who are reserved and less likely to speak up and ask for help, because their Crew can also see their calendar and will get a notification if their moods are consistently at extreme levels. This way, YourCrew can prevent youth from falling through the cracks.