Setting Children & Youth up for a Successful Return to School in the Era of COVID-19: Webinar Recording
Webinar recording for parents & caregivers from the 'Setting Children & Youth up for a Successful Return to School in the Era of COVID-19' webinar. You will learn about practical tools and strategies you can use to set your family up for a successful return to school this year (Aug. 2020).
Toolkit for Families: My Healthy Living Pinwheel
This resource can be used to help children and families develop healthy living SMART goals.
Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines
The 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Canadians of all ages (early years, children and youth, and adults) provide guidance on physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep.
Part 2 What can Families expect Along the Way? Supporting Children & Youth with Mental Health Challenges
This video describes what families can expect when they meet with a health professional about their child’s mental health for the first time, and how to prepare themselves and their child for that first meeting.
Coping with stress and anxiety during COVID-19
Coping strategies and personal assessment tools to help you manage your stress and anxiety as we adapt to the next normal.
Parents Like Us: The Unofficial Survival Guide to Parenting a Young Person with a Substance Use Disorder
This handbook aims to helps parents feel connected with other parents and caregivers experiencing a young person struggling with substance use disorder. Each section contains information such as stories, support, resources, and more.
Sam's Journey: A Story of Somatization
Sam's Journey was developed with patients, families and mental health professionals from medical psychology and the integrative health team at BC Children's Hospital.
Mindful Walking Meditation (4 min)
A mindful walking meditation by Dr. Joanna McDermid from BC Children's Hospital.
Helping Schools
Helping Schools seeks to help educators stimulate students to think differently about drugs and to explore the meaning of drugs in human experience. These resources include evidence-based promising practices, tools to support positive school initiatives, and health education modules and resources such as iMinds.
Transcript: When School Staff Are Well, Students Are Too - Strategies To Avoid Burnout
This episode transcript from the Kelty Centre's Where You Are podcast, you'll read strategies school professionals can use to support their own well-being, support each other’s well-being, and engage at a system’s level to keep staff well-being a priority for mental health and wellness— all of which contributes to student health and achievement.
Gender Creative Kids
This site provides resources for supporting and affirming gender creative kids within their families, schools and communities.
Calm Harm
This free app provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm; these include: Comfort, Distract, Express Yourself, Release, and Breathe. Calm Harm uses the basic principles of an evidence-based therapy called Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT).