How to talk to your children about COVID-19 vaccines
It is natural that children have questions about COVID-19 vaccines. This website provides tips for helping to explain what can be a complicated topic in simple and reassuring terms.
Managing Tourette Syndrome: A behavioral intervention: Parent workbook
This 11-session program uses Behaviour Therapy to help your child become aware of his/her tics and the situations that make them worse. The program also includes relaxation techniques designed to help combat anxiety and stress, as well as relapse prevention strategies.
A Terrible Thing Happened
This gently told story is for children who have witnessed any kind of violence, accidents, homicide, suicide, or natural disasters such as flood or fire. An afterword for parents and other caregivers offers suggestions for helping traumatized children.
What Parents and Caregivers Need to Know About Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
This booklet is for parents and caregivers of children and teenagers with FASD, and provides ideas about caring for your children to help ensure they have the best lives possible.
Self-Injury and Recovery Resources
These resources were developed to advance your understanding of self-injury among youth and adults. A wide variety of topics have all been translated into user friendly materials for individuals who self-injure as well as those who live with, care about, and work with them.
Autism Community Training (ACT)
Provides province-wide information and educational opportunities on autism to support families and service providers.
Mindful@Home Live Meditations and Other Resources
Mindful.org is bringing together mindful leaders from across the country for an online meditation series called Mindful@Home. Let’s meditate! From our home to yours.
Deepen your practice, connect with the Mindful community, and experience the power of collective mindfulness
Anxiety Canada
Provides information for parents & caregivers on on anxiety in children and youth, including including self-help toolkits, personal stories, and videos.
BCSCMHC Staff Wellbeing Webinar
Staff wellbeing is a shared responsibility between employees and the school district that employs them. In this webinar we explored how we can improve the wellbeing of the adults in schools through individual, collaborative and systemic actions. Hear from schools districts from across BC.
Drug Cocktails: Facts About Mixing Medication with Common Substances
Designed to help youth “get the facts” about the effects and risks of mixing medications they take with substances like cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, and other street drugs.
Outsideplay.ca
Helping parents, caregivers, and educators gain the confidence and skills to support children's outdoor play.
Loving-Kindness Meditation (6 min)
A loving-kindness meditation by Dr. Dzung Vo from BC Children's Hospital.