Student Wellness Resources
Mental Health & Resiliency
- Discover the foundation for building solid mental health and resiliency.
- View mental health resources and emergency services information
- View FCPS' Healthy Minds features
- View tips on building resiliency
Student Wellness Tips and Strategies
Feeling super stressed? Worried about a friend's mental health—or your own? Get tips to help manage your emotions and see what to do if you are in crisis.
- How to handle peer pressure
- How to help a friend in crisis
- Quick tips to lift your mood
- Ways to bring balance to your life
- Tips to ease anxiety
- And much more
Body Safety Program Presentation & List of Books
WFES is partnering with the Fairfax County Department of Family Services to present the CHILDHELP Speak Up Be Safe curriculum for all K-6 students the week of January 2, 2024. This curriculum teaches children about personal safety. A trained facilitator will present research-based, age-appropriate lessons to help children learn the skills to prevent or interrupt cycles of neglect, bullying, and child abuse - physical, emotional, and sexual.
View the family information session presentation by clicking here
Good Books to read with them about Body Safety:
- Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept by Jayneen Sanders
- My Body Belongs to Me by Jill Starishevsky
- It’s Not the Stork! by Robie H. Harris
- Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
- The Color Monster by Anna Llenas
- One by Kathryn Otoshi
- Say Something by Peggy Moss
- I Said “No” by Zack and Kimberly King
- No Means NO! by Jayneen Sanders
- Your Body Belongs to You by Cornelia Spelman
- It’s MY Body by Lory Britain
- Not Everyone is Nice by Frederick Alimonti and Ann Tedesco
- Some Parts are NOT for Sharing by Julie Federico
- Do you have a Secret? By Jennifer Moore-Malinos
- Uncle Willy’s Tickles by Marcie Aboff