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Mindful parenting
Joanna McDermid, MD, FRCPC Associate Director, BC Children’s Hospital Centre for Mindfulness
Mindfulness, Parenting, and Caregiving: New Resources
Family life can be super stressful at times, there’s no doubt about it. Mindfulness can be a powerful remedy to parenting stress and can increase...
2 min read
May 19, 2022
Pencils
Boyee Lin, BSc and Clara Westwell-Roper, MD, PhD for the Provincial OCD Program ACE-OCD study team*
Hot off the press: the heated debate about OCD and inflammation
Sharing the recent progress and new study happening at BC Children’s Hospital about the role of inflammation and the immune system in children and...
4 min read
May 16, 2022
cooking
Lorrie Chow, Registered Dietitian, BC Children’s Mental Health Metabolic Program
Nutrition Month 2022
This years’ nutrition month topic, Ingredients for a Healthier Tomorrow, brings together nutrition elements that include healthy sustainable food...
2 min read
March 1, 2022
Pink Shirt Day
Dr. Ashley Miller & Dr. Susan Baer, BC Children's Hospital
This Pink Shirt Day, Let’s Lift Each Other Up
Parents, caregivers and educators can play an important role in intervening if bullying is suspected or in the prevention of bullying in school and...
6 min read
February 23, 2022
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Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre

BC Children's Hospital 
Healthy Minds Centre, Building #85, Room P3-302, 3rd floor,
4555 Heather Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1

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The BC Children’s Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre is located on the unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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