Build Your Coping Toolbox

How to use it

1. Look through the tools and choose any you want to keep, change, or try later.
2. Add your own tools and a not for me space.
3. Cut and store pieces with adult help when needed.

Reflection prompts

• Which tools fit different kinds of moments?
• Which tools need a person, place, or material to be available?
• What could you try if the first choice does not help?

Facilitator guidance

Support personalization across movement, sensory, social, creative, practical, and quiet options. Review cutting safety and avoid presenting the toolbox as a promise of calm.

Adaptations & accessibility

• Use pre-cut pieces, hook-and-loop dots, magnets, or pointing.
• Create a digital drag-and-drop or photo-based toolbox.
• Limit choices and add blank personalized tools.

Review considerations

Standard licensed-clinician and age-appropriate materials-safety review required before use.