Speaking Up! A Parent Guide to Advocating for Students in Public Schools
This guide provides tips and resources for parents on parent involvement in schools. Explains how the school system works, outlines parents' and students' rights and responsibilities, provides strategies for advocating for children and supporting student self-advocacy.
Jon Kabat-Zinn: Daily Mindfulness Practice and Q&A
Cultivating Mindfulness at this Critical Moment - Daily Practices and Inquiry with Jon Kabat-Zinn video recording.
Helping Children and Teens During Difficult Times
A guide by Vancouver Coastal Health intended to help parents and caregivers talk to and support their children when a loved one is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, focusing on ways to talk to children about their loved one’s sickness and help children express their feelings in age-appropriate ways.
Part 2(b): Practical Strategies to Support High School-Aged Youth with School Attendance: Powerpoint Slides
Powerpoint Slides for Part 2(b): Challenges with School Attendance. To watch the accompanying webinar recording, click here.
Pain BC
This website provides support and education for people living with chronic pain, including children/youth in pain and their families. The site also has information and tools for health care providers.
Anxiety and Me
This video, created for children, explains what anxiety is, examples of the physical and mental health effects it can bring, and how those effects can show up in children. The video shows children how they can manage and better cope with anxiety and those pesky anxious thoughts.
Stresslr
Free web app that provides a fun and engaging way for children to learn about stress, understand how they react to it, and develop healthy strategies to cope with stress in their daily lives.
Transcript: Anxiety in Youth: Malia Baker’s Recovery and Road to Fame
In this episode transcript from the Where You Are podcast, you will hear about 14-year-old Malia Baker and the important role her mother and sister played in helping her manage symptoms with anxiety.
ADHD Goes to School: Webinar Recording
Webinar recording for parents & caregivers from the ADHD Goes to School webinar. To see accompanying presentation slides, click here (Mar. 03, 2021).
The Zones of Regulation
The Zones of Regulation is a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem solving abilities. For developmental ages 8+.
Supporting Children & Youth Who Have Experienced Trauma
In this episode, our hosts Bryn and Char speak with Lynne Godfrey (parent and grandparent) and Dr. Linda Uyeda to explore trauma, understand its impact on mental health and wellbeing, and share strategies parents and caregivers can use to support their child who has experienced trauma.