Comfort, Play & Teach: Activities to Support Development
This resource offers parents and caregivers suggestions for engaging with their young child and understanding how that experience supports their child's development and well-being. The activities include creative arts, dramatic play, music & movement, and more.
ADHD Webinar Series Recordings
These webinars provide parents and caregivers with information on how ADHD is diagnosed, evidence based treatment for ADHD, self-regulation tools for children with ADHD, tips on parenting a child with ADHD, and how to help a child with ADHD at school.
Beyond Behaviors
Beyond Behaviors describes behaviors as important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the context of relational safety. It offers professionals, educators and parents tools and techniques to reduce behavioral challenges and promote psychological resilience and satisfying, secure relationships.
Your Teen's Sexual Orientation
In this resource, find information about how you can support your child as they explore their sexual orientation, as well as how to respond if your child comes out to you. No matter what your teen’s sexual orientation is, it’s important to let your teen know you love them unconditionally and accept them for who they are.
Self-Harm: What Families Need to Know
In this episode from the Kelty Centre's Where You Are podcast, we speak to a youth who has lived experience with self-harm, and a clinical counsellor who has supported many youth who have self-harmed. Walk away from this episode with a greater understanding of why youth self-harm and what parents can do to support their child.
BC Pediatric Society
This site features information, tips and resources on child mental health for parents.
Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter
This book discusses the phenomenon of peer orientation - the tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for direction.The concepts, principles and practical advice offers parents the ability to satisfy their children’s inborn need to find direction by turning towards a source of authority, contact and warmth.
Helping your Child or Youth with Depression
This resource helps parents and caregivers support a child or youth with depression, and includes information on what to do if you think your child is depressed, ways to connect with your child, how to work with your child's school, and types of treatment for depression.
Helping Your Child Sleep Alone or Away from Home
Steps parents can take to help your child sleep alone or away from home.
Children’s Mental Health Ontario: Resources for Teachers
Contains links to resources about common mental health problems present in today’s classrooms, tips on early identification and intervention, practical suggestions on accommodating and responding to kids with mental health problems, and ways to combat stigma in the classroom.
Practical Self-Regulation Tools for Children with ADHD: Webinar Recording
Webinar recording for parents & caregivers from the 'Practical Self-Regulation Tools for Children with ADHD' webinar. To see the accompanying presentation slides, click here (Jan. 25, 2021).