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RESOURCES

Unite has spent months interviewing parents and tweens/teens. We have listened to what you need, what you want to know, how you’d like to think about working together with suggestions and alternatives that will best fit your family and cohort group.
Unite has curated the below resources – we recommend these sites for all the info and tools you need!
Consider this toolkit as building blocks for balanced health.

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Fairplay Childhood Beyond Brands, Unite for Safe Social Media Affiliate
Fairplay

What is a childhood beyond brands?
Child Mind Institute
Child Mind Institute

Screen Time and Technology
Surgeon General’s Social Media and Youth Mental Health Advisory
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy

Social Media and Youth Mental Health Advisory
LiveMoreScreenLess
Live More Screen Less

Parent Tools, Expert Links and More
Screen Time Action Network
Screen Time Action Network

Social Media Harms
Center for Online Safety
The Center

The Center for Online Safety
Mental Health America
Mental Health America

Conversation Starters, Tips and More
On Our Sleeves
On Our Sleeves

How to Talk to Kids About Social Media
American Academy of Pediatrics

Build a Family Media Plan
Reader, Come Home
By Maryanne Wolf

Reader, Come Home
Screenwise Book
By Devorah Heitner, PhD

Screenwise
Harvard Making Caring Common Project
HARVARD MAKING CARING COMMON PROJECT

Positive Self-Talk and Problem-Solving
Less Screen, More Green
Finding Freedom with The Mindful Tech Plans by Kerry Crofton, PhD

Less Screen More Green
Fairplay Childhood Beyond Brands, Unite for Safe Social Media Affiliate

Fairplay

What is a childhood beyond brands?

Child Mind Institute

Child Mind Institute

Screen Time and Technology

Surgeon General’s Social Media and Youth Mental Health Advisory

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy

Social Media and Youth Mental Health Advisory

LiveMoreScreenLess

Live More Screen Less

Parent Tools, Expert Links and More

Live More Screen Less has a comprehensive list of parent tools and other expert links. Find social media harm details, suggested parent/child conversation starters/ draft Family Social Media Plan and so much more.

Screen Time Action Network

Screen Time Action Network

Social Media Harms

All you need to know from authoritative sources about social media harms for kids and teens.

Center for Online Safety

The Center

The Center for Online Safety

The Center for Online Safety is a great resource to learn about taking children through digital milestones, how to implement parental controls, what you need to know about the growing crisis of sextortion and more.

Mental Health America

Mental Health America

Conversation Starters, Tips and More

Mental Health America has great conversation starters, tips for parents and teachers as well as student-led activities.

On Our Sleeves

On Our Sleeves

How to Talk to Kids About Social Media

American Academy of Pediatrics

Build a Family Media Plan

At about age 9, together with your child (children) build a Family Media Plan. Here’s how according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.  

Reader, Come Home

By Maryanne Wolf

Reader, Come Home

Screenwise Book

By Devorah Heitner, PhD

Screenwise

Harvard Making Caring Common Project

HARVARD MAKING CARING COMMON PROJECT

Positive Self-Talk and Problem-Solving

Less Screen, More Green

Finding Freedom with The Mindful Tech Plans by Kerry Crofton, PhD

Less Screen More Green

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Fact Sheets:

Clear, evidence-based summaries on social media’s impact on children and teens—designed to inform, empower, and support advocacy for safer online spaces.