Parenting & Community Support

Executive Functioning and the Middle School Experience

Have a Middle Schooler?

Join us as we welcome Kathleen Brigham, of Brigham Learning and a RYC Board Member, to gain some insight into what to expect with the middle school transition and how you can support your new 6th grader.

Wednesday, Sept. 21, 6:30 - 7:30 pm at the Rye Free Reading Room. $20 per person.

We will address:

How is middle school academics different from elementary school?
Why 6th grade is an executive function challenge?
What can parents can do to support students with the start of 6th grade without doing TOO much?
What is helpful and what is not?
When to step in and when to step away?

Strengthening Family, Building Community

Rye Youth Council strengthens families by educating parents and caregivers on issues affecting today's youth, and providing strategies to enhance connections with young people. Our programs address ways to identify and resolve common parenting challenges, and our approach is always through a lens of social and emotional learning.

Rye Youth Council supports children, teachers and parents in teaching social and emotional life skills, in and out of the classroom. Our RYC Youth Educator teaches an in-class Social and Emotional Learning curriculum to every 3rd and 4th grader in the Rye City School District, and DBT-Step A to the District's 6th graders.

Learn more about social emotional learning here.

Learn which SEL skills Rye's 3rd graders are learning, and what our 4th graders are learning. Click here to watch our Youth Educator teach SEL.

See our upcoming programs

Parenting in Challenging Times

Vol. 1: Returning to School and COVID-19

Events in recent months have changed our day-to-day lives in many ways that present challenges for families with children of all ages. The Challenging in Parenting Times series is designed to provide information, strategies and resources for parents as we navigate these unprecedented times, and work together to protect the mental, emotional, and behavioral health of youth in our community.

Read the newsletter

Vol. 2: Race & Racism

Vol. 1: Returning to School and COVID-19

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Parent Support Line

Vol. 1: Returning to School and COVID-19

Parent Support Line

RYC Parent Support Line offers referrals to local professionals

Rye Youth Council offers a parent support line to assist parents in our community during this challenging time. The parent support line connects parents seeking emotional support to local mental health clinicians.

The support line will be accessible M-F, 10am - 4pm.

The number is 914-967-0985

Or email: parentsupport@ryeyouthcouncil.org

Guidance for challenging days

Seeing the Gift in the Unimaginable

Helping Teens Plan for Improvement During This Time

We are navigating a new normal, in which we grieve what we have lost while experiencing anxiety about what is coming.

Even so, this time can be a gift, if we can be open to receiving it

Helping Teens Plan for Improvement During This Time

When we devote time to self-improvement, we are actually giving ourselves a gift. The point is not to be perfect, or to overachieve, or to exhaust oneself. These sorts of personal projects have two benefits. . .

Helping Teens Plan for Improvement During This Time

Conflict Resolution at Home

Although disagreements are inevitable, resulting arguments might be preventable if we can handle the disagreement in a constructive way.