Talking to Children about a Suicide
This guide is designed to help parents, guardians, and caregivers of children under 12 know how to speak with them when a suicide occurs in their family or community.
Helping Your Child Sleep Alone or Away from Home
Steps parents can take to help your child sleep alone or away from home.
How to talk to kids about Substance Use
This resource provides advice on how you can begin and continue having conversations about drug use with your kid, teenager, or even your adult children.
The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired
Parenting isn’t easy. Showing up is. Showing up means offering a quality of presence. And it’s simple to provide once you understand the four building blocks of a child’s healthy development which you'll learn in this book.
Cannabis: What Parents/Guardians and Caregivers Need to Know
This fact sheet is for parents and caregivers of youth in grades 6 to 12. It provides information about cannabis, legalization, risks, signs of a problem, how to help, and where to get more information and support.
Tics and Tic Disorders: Kelty's Recommended Resources
In this collection developed by the Kelty Centre, you will find a list of recommended resources for parents and caregivers to learn more about tics and tic disorders, including Tourette Syndrome, such as websites, apps, online tools and support services.
Mind-Body Connection at Wildwood High
This video for patients and families describes the mind-body connection that causes somatization.
Know FASD
An interactive website that provides information across the spectrum and lifespan of individuals who have FASD. It summarizes some of the common neurobehavioral features from current research and explains some of the neurobehavioral difficulties.
Loving-Kindness Meditation
5 minute mindfulness exercise by Dr. Dzung Vo from BC Children's Hospital.
Coping: When Someone in your family has psychosis
A guide for family members to learn how to cope with a loved one experiencing episodes of psychosis.
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.