At Greater Good, our mission is to share scientific research that can help promote a happier, more compassionate society. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, we’re committed to bringing you stories, tips, and tools for these uncertain times in our global community.

We’ll continue to update this page with resources for individuals, families, and educators. You can read our latest coronavirus coverage, or start with these key articles:

Other resources below (click to jump to a section):

Resources for stress and anxiety

Resources for fostering connection

Well-being resources for parents

Well-being resources for educators

Well-being resources for health care professionals

Well-being resources for workplace leaders

Other coronavirus well-being resources

Resources for stress and anxiety

Resources for fostering connection

Discover science-backed practices for more resilience, connection, and well-being, with step-by-step instructions on how to implement them in your life.

Learn research-tested strategies that you can put into practice today. In each episode, a guest tries a specific practice for well-being or connection, and shares their experience.

While you’re home, try our online, self-paced course, offering skills to boost resilience and well-being in your life. Results from tens of thousands of our students show that it helps them reduce stress and feel more connected to others.

Made in collaboration with Holstee, this toolkit includes 30 science-based practices for a meaningful life.

Well-being resources for parents

Articles for resilience and connection

Practices for parents and kids

Videos for parents and kids

Well-being resources for educators

A free online resource for social-emotional learning practices you can weave into your new homeschooling plan.

Greater Good in Education offers Supporting Learning and Well-Being During the Coronavirus Crisis, a collection of activities, articles, and videos. It includes practices and other resources offering ways to address student and adult anxiety in this time of uncertainty, and strategies for cultivating our human connection through kindness, compassion, and other prosocial qualities.

Well-being resources for health care professionals

Well-being resources for workplace leaders

Other coronavirus well-being resources

For parents

Kind World Explorers, from Camp Kindness Counts, a Greater Good Parenting grantee: A guidebook to support parents with distance learning that provides activities and example conversations that families can have to help foster communities of compassion.

A guidebook to support parents with distance learning that provides activities and example conversations that families can have to help foster communities of compassion. Resilient Parenting, from Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota, a Greater Good Parenting grantee: A digital, online parenting tool that can be made available to any families in need of support. It includes topics such as self-care, addressing trauma, how to have difficult conversations with children, and many other very pertinent topics for these times with a focus on character-building. This tool is a partnership between a social worker/case manager and a family, via phone, tablet or laptop that allows for weekly reflection, sharing and support. To receive it, email Heather.Kamia@lssmn.org.

A digital, online parenting tool that can be made available to any families in need of support. It includes topics such as self-care, addressing trauma, how to have difficult conversations with children, and many other very pertinent topics for these times with a focus on character-building. This tool is a partnership between a social worker/case manager and a family, via phone, tablet or laptop that allows for weekly reflection, sharing and support. To receive it, email Heather.Kamia@lssmn.org. Parents and COVID 19: Helping Your Children, from InfoAboutKids.Org: Here are suggestions for talking with younger and older children about COVID-19, as well as suggestions for parents.

Here are suggestions for talking with younger and older children about COVID-19, as well as suggestions for parents. How to Talk to Children about Difficult News, from the American Psychological Association: Instead of shielding children from the difficult news around us, adults should talk to kids about what is happening.

Instead of shielding children from the difficult news around us, adults should talk to kids about what is happening. Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families Cope With the Coronavirus Disease 2019, from The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: This resource will help parents and caregivers think about how an infectious disease outbreak might affect their family— both physically and emotionally—and what they can do to help their family cope.

This resource will help parents and caregivers think about how an infectious disease outbreak might affect their family— both physically and emotionally—and what they can do to help their family cope. How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus, from PBS KIDS for Parents: Share age-appropriate information, provide reassurance, and what they can do to help during COVID-19 pandemic.

Share age-appropriate information, provide reassurance, and what they can do to help during COVID-19 pandemic. 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), from Healthy Children, American Academy of Pediatrics: Tips for parents about what they need to know about COVID-19.

For educators