Cannabis Use and Youth: A Parent's Guide
This guide explores facts and misunderstandings about cannabis and helps parents find ways to engage their children in conversations about cannabis.
Body Scan Meditation (27 min)
A body scan mindfulness exercise by Dr. Dzung Vo from BC Children's Hospital.
MediaSmarts
MediaSmarts is a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization for digital and media literacy. This site helps to provide information for children and youth have the critical thinking skills to engage with media as active and informed digital citizens.
Mindfulness: Youth Voices
Features young people discussing their experiences practicing mindfulness, how it has benefited their lives and includes insights from a health professional and mindfulness teacher.
Heroin
Information about what Heroin is, how long it lasts, how it makes you feel, if it is addictive and dangerous, and long term effects.
Generation Health Program
A free 10 week program designed for families in B.C. with children aged 8-12 years old. The program supports healthy family behaviours in areas such as healthy eating, physical activity, screen time and sleep.
The Whole-Brain Child
This book is full of strategies and tips to help parents guide the growth of their children's emotional intelligence. Contains illustrations, charts, and even a handy ‘Refrigerator Sheet.’ Check out another book related to social and emotional development by Dr. Dan Siegel called The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child.
Summit Speaker Support Materials
Sharing lived experience with mental illness or mental health challenges is both difficult and courageous, especially when speaking to a group of your peers. It’s also meant to be a positive experience for the individual sharing. To ensure that happens, providing proper speaker support for someone looking to share their lived experience is necessary and important. You want them to feel safe, supported and confident when their moment arrives.
Speaker support isn’t a straightforward process, so for a more detailed and in-depth look at best practices we suggest you refer to the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) Headstrong Toolkit for Training Speakers.
BC Youth Mental Health Act
For youth and families of youth who need to stay in hospital to get treatment for a mental health issue. This interactive video resource page will help you to get (quickly) informed about rights, options and opportunities and links to further resources.
Part 1: Redefining & Locating Culture within our SEL Practice: Powerpoint slides
Powerpoint slides for Part 1: Redefining & Locating Culture within our SEL Practice. To see the accompanying webinar recording, click here (Apr. 20, 2022).
Mental Health First Aid COVID-19 Self-Care & Resilience Guide
When life gets busy and our sense of well-being and balance is affected, we often forget to take care of ourselves or we look for quick fixes or solutions to problems. Building self-care into your daily or weekly routine can greatly improve resilience and prevent burnout.