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TeachResiliency.ca "hope[s] this place provides what you need: simple-to-use strategies and tools to assess both resilience needs and resources, information about evidence-based programs to promote and enhance both your own and your students’ mental health, and teacher-to-teacher strategies, tips, and resources."
Free Online Course on Teaching Mental Health Literacy
In this course, educators will learn how to apply this classroom-ready, web-based, modular mental health curriculum resource as well as develop their own mental health literacy. Educators can then use this resource designed to be delivered to regular classrooms to successfully address mental health-related curriculum outcomes designed to be delivered by classroom teachers to students aged 12 to 19.
MindUp :
Empowering children through mindful practice based in neuroscience. MindUP is the signature program of The Goldie Hawn Foundation, a not-for-profit organization created in response to the global epidemic of childhood aggression, anxiety, depression and suicide. Based firmly in neuroscience, MindUP gives children the knowledge and tools they need to manage stress, regulate emotions and face the challenges of the 21st century with optimism, resilience and compassion.
Our goal for school mental health is to improve mental health literacy among students, educators and school staff. We have numerous programs, customizable to the needs of educators and students, in addition to an evolving Mental Health & High School Curriculum Guide. Our programs and resources are used nationally and internationally with research evidence evaluated success.
Heart-Mind Online is for all those who are searching for evidenced-informed resources that educate the hearts of children. The collection of resources builds capacity in individuals and communities to support the Heart-Mind well-being of children, and promotes their positive social and emotional development.
Sex & U :
A trusted resource for sexual and reproductive health! SexandU.ca takes a real-life approach to the questions and issues around sex and sexuality that matter most to Canadians. From talking about sex, to lifestyle choices, to contraception awareness and sexually transmitted infections, SexandU.ca provides accurate, credible, and up-to-date information and education on topics related to sexual and reproductive health. SexandU.ca is an initiative of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, Canada’s leading authority on sexual and reproductive health.
Everyday Mental Health Classroom Resource This resource is designed to support elementary educators (K-8) in this role by offering a repository of high-quality everyday mental health practices that can be easily incorporated into classroom routines. Heart-Mind Online provides evidence-informed knowledge, insight and resources that support educators in responding to the social and emotional learning needs of students. As a portal to both research and emerging practices, this tool aligns with the broader, pro-active initiatives across school systems.
TeachingSexualHealth.ca Provides teachers and educators with evidence based sexual health information, lesson plans, tools and resources.
For grade 8 lesson plans on sexual health education in English and French, click here
For grade 9 lesson plans on sexual health education in English and French, click here
The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) reports that “many people living with mental illness say the stigma they face is often worse than the illness itself.”
Mental illness and mental health are gaining more traction in our collective consciousness, and we can further that cause by bringing the discussion into our classrooms. These lesson plans, in partnership with our Creating a Compassionate Classroom booklet, were created as resources to do just that.
Canada's Food Guide Lesson Plan: Have your students explore the new Canada's Food Guide using this simple worksheet for them to get acquainted.
Teaching Tolerance: These robust, ready-to-use classroom lessons offer breadth and depth, spanning essential social justice topics and reinforcing critical social emotional learning skills.
“Teaching Tolerance provides me with the means to promote social justice, challenge bias, and engage students in discussions about diversity that would perhaps not happen otherwise.”
Our school-based resources for youth can help you to plan and deliver high-quality lessons supporting the Alberta curriculum for grades 3 to 12, while at the same time delivering effective prevention messages to your students.
Ever Active Schools is a provincial initiative designed to create and support healthy school communities. We engage and support schools through a Comprehensive School Health approach, which addresses health and education goals to improve the social outcomes of children and youth in Alberta.
Through collaborative partnerships, projects-based work, knowledge exchange and competency-based learning opportunities, Ever Active Schools spearheads meaningful collaboration between the health, education, recreation and active living sectors.
Beyond Blue was appointed to lead Be You by the Australian Government in June 2017.
Be You provides educators with knowledge, resources and strategies for helping children and young people achieve their best possible mental health.
The National Mental Health Commission Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services Report of 2014 found that there were multiple initiatives promoting social and emotional health and wellbeing for children and young people across education settings. All of these initiatives were designed and delivered with the best possible intent, but had the potential to be so much more if they were integrated into one single, national end-to-end education-based program.
This program has two components: the Mental Health in Education Program, focused on the education and training of early learning, primary, secondary and pre-service educators; and the National Workforce Support Program, focused on providing education and training to clinicians and non-clinicians working with children between the ages of 0-12 outside of the education space.
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