Focusing on what’s right with a child or teenager’s mental health can go a long way to combatting stress and anxiety. By building strong, healthy relationships, parents and other caregivers can help make sure children and teens grow up resilient and minimize the effects of toxic stress. In this video by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Heather Forkey describes the idea of relational health and how it can combat toxic stress – things like trauma, child abuse, or even the long-term effects of racism.

**Note** This video is geared toward a parent/caregiver audience – explaining relational health for parents, and giving tips on how to support it. This would be perfect to accompany any resources you might be disseminating related to back-to-school, mental health, adolescents, etc.