About Coping Skills for Kids

About Coping Skills for Kids

About Coping Skills for Kids

About Coping Skills for Kids

About Coping Skills for Kids

Coping Skills for Kids, part of Encourage Play, LLC, was founded in 2015 by Janine Halloran, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a mom of 2. As a counselor working primarily with children and adolescents for over the last 20 years, Janine has seen the value of learning healthy coping skills early in life. Children who are able to cope in healthy ways will be more resilient and manage stress better as adults. Coping Skills for Kids provides products and resources to help kids learn to cope with the daily challenges of life. The products are made to be used with either a family member or another trusted adult, like a school counselor or therapist. Coping Skills for Kids offers two main lines of products. There are Coping Cue Cards, designed to help kids learn healthy coping skills. Each deck has cards with simple strategies children can use to cope with stress, anxiety, and anger. The decks are sorted into 5 Coping Styles: Relaxation, Distraction, Movement, Processing, and Sensory. The deck brings order to the mountain of ideas for coping strategies that work for kids. They are designed to work in therapy, at school and at home. There are also Activity Books, which allow for playful exploration of coping skills. There are tons of different drawing, writing, coloring, and tracing activities to explore strategies that could work to help kids figure out what will help them when they have big feelings.Read their story