Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and Their Parents)
Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions.
Families, Together: Supporting the Mental Well-being of Children and Youth
Video and discussion guide featuring families from different cultural backgrounds and health professionals sharing their experiences supporting a child or youth with a mental health challenge.
Finding Calm – Guided Breathing
Taking a moment to slow your breathing can help to manage anxiety and calm feelings of stress. This guided breathing video helps you to observe and slow your breath.
S4E4 - Promoting Student Wellbeing: The ABC's of Substance Use Education (Transcript)
When it comes to substance use education, school professionals are an important resource. Schools can provide supportive environments that promote overall well-being and equip students with the confidence, knowledge and skills they need to make decisions about the substances they'll encounter as they grow. Bryn and guest co-host Cindy Andrew come together with Dave Mackenzie, a school counsellor and Art Steinmann, a Youth Substance Use Health Promotion Specialist, to talk about the ABCs of substance use education and schools. They share evidence-based approaches that help students build protective factors including autonomy, belonging and competence and describe how this can help prevent, delay and reduce substance-related harms.
Understanding ADHD For Parents and Caregivers
This US-based organization includes useful information for parents of children with ADHD, including information on coexisting conditions in children; preschoolers and ADHD; ADHD and childcare; and surviving the holidays with ADHD. Note information on assessment and treatment is US-based.
Talking With Youth About Substance Use - Paying Attention-Relationship or Behaviour
Parenting with a different focus in mind about substance use and talking to youth about this difficult topic.
Helping Schools
Includes curriculum resources and lesson plans focused on drug literacy with the goal of encouraging students to both express and think critically about their current drug- and gambling-related beliefs, attitudes and behaviours.
Superflex: A superhero social thinking curriculum (2008)
This comic book is aimed at elementary school children to teach them how they can use strategies to self-regulate some of their own wayward, not quite so flexible thoughts and behaviours.
Moody Cow Meditates
Peter the cow is having a BAD day. After missing the bus and wiping out on his bike he loses his temper and gets in trouble. And to make matters worse all the other cows are teasing him, calling him Moody Cow. Peter's day just seems to get worse until his grandfather comes over and teaches him how to settle his mind and let go of his frustration through a simple and fun exercise.
CADDRA
A resource organization for medical, healthcare and research professionals with an interest in ADHD. Also contains tools parents and caregivers may find useful, including the ADHD Medication Chart found here: www.caddra.ca/resources/medication-chart
Supporting youth with anxiety disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic
Suggestions for talking to anxious children and teens about the pandemic and specific ways to help these dysfunctional thinking patterns associated with COVID-19.
Mindful: Healthy Mind, Healthy Life
A website with mindfulness practices, info on getting started, and more.