Clementine Gets UNSTUCK!

In light of current mental health needs of children who have been strongly impacted by the pandemic and increasing social stressors, Christine and Jen were inspired to help. So they wrote Clementine Gets UNSTUCK! as the first book in the Kids Can Club™ Collection, created the Kids Can Club program and designed KidsCanClub.com. By engaging and empowering young readers through a connection with the Kids Can Club kids, who face emotional challenges,  find solutions through simple wellness tools and then share them, children will learn they are not alone with their feelings and that THEY can also take action to find solutions to help themselves and others.

In Clementine Gets UNSTUCK!, Clementine is a smart and sunny third grade student who always has so many exciting thoughts and ideas, which usually help her find answers to big questions. But sometimes, her brain gets really busy. Too many thoughts and ideas ZIP in all at once, ZING around and TANGLE UP, so Clementine can't think clearly and can't decide what to say or do. She is left feeling STUCK. This creates frustration and problems, but also makes Clementine more and more determined to find a solution. Clementine explores some unique "fix-my-thinking" strategies, which are not successful. Finally, at school one day, she learns a simple wellness exercise from her school counselor. And it works! Her thoughts stop ZIPPING and ZINGING. They UNTANGLE. Clementine is now able to speak about and take action on her thoughts and ideas. She is UNSTUCK! One of Clementine's newly clear ideas is to start a club. She names it, "The Kids Can Club!" For now Clementine truly believes that kids CAN face challenges, find solutions, and share these solutions with others. The club will help kids, animals, the environment and even grown-ups! Clementine Gets UNSTUCK! is the first publication in the Kids Can Club™ Collection, a children's book series written to engage and empower young readers through connection with the Kids Can Club kids' struggles and then their successes, achieved through the use of simple wellness tools. The Kids Can Club online program will expand the series' content with activities, games, additional exercises and interaction with the Kids Can Club characters. And it will also show kids (with participation of their trusted adults) how to start their own Kids Can Club!

Christine Corrigan Mendez, M.Ed., LPC, NCC, is a licensed professional counselor in private practice. She provides individual mental health therapy and offers support programs for pet illness and loss. Christine and her husband are devoted to helping animals and have rescued and provided a loving home for feral and abandoned dogs who were suffering on the streets of St. Louis, MO. Jen Monika McCurdy is a licensed professional counselor, therapeutic coach, mom entrepreneur and lover of all things big and possible. Her passion is to empower her clients to live the life they most want to live. Jen specializes in maternal mental health, working primarily with women and couples struggling with infertility, birth and postpartum challenges.