Day: March 19, 2019
Positive Mental Health Toolkit
Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health
This is a toolkit that consists of five modules to be used by wellness champion to help promote positive mental health practices in a school environment. This toolkit would be helpful to a wellness champion working within the Comprehensive School Health Framework.
http://www.jcshpositivementalhealthtoolkit.com/
Planning for Sustainable Practices in School Mental Health and Well-Being
School Mental Health Assist
This resource provides ten organizational conditions that a school should meet to effectively and sustainably promote positive mental health practices in a school environment.
ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth
ParticipACTION
This report card is an evidence-informed document that provides information on Canada’s rate of success in terms of providing opportunities for children and youth to be physically active. This is the most recent report card released from 2018.
Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health
Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health
This website offers information and resources related to the Comprehensive School Health Framework that a wellness champion could use while planning for a school-based wellness initiative.
Building a Healthy Workplace
Alberta Health Services
This webpage provides strategies to promote health in five focus areas. These focus areas are: alcohol reduction, healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco reduction and ultraviolet (UV) protection.
https://workplaces.healthiertogether.ca/tool-kits/overview-tool-kits/
OPHEA: Healthy Schools Healthy Communities
Ontario Physical and Health Education Association (OPHEA)
This website offers information on current healthy school initiatives in Ontario, professional learning opportunities, and many teaching tools such as lesson plans, supplemental resources, and activities.
Mapped! A Youth Community Mapping Toolkit for Vancouver
Vancouver Youth
This is a community asset mapping toolkit that can assist a school administrator in determining the assets of their school community through diverse perspectives to produce a map. The toolkit uses an asset-based approach which focuses on determining the positive assets of the school community. This is achieved by leading the user through activities to determine these assets in the personal, local, and institutional domains. The toolkit can be used to identify strengths of the physical and social school environment to influence planning based on the assets identified.
http://www.vancouveryouth.ca/sites/covytheme.tidaldevel.com/files/Mapped%20Vancouver%20Final.pdf
Knowledge Mobilization Toolkit
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
This is a toolkit that is intended to facilitate brainstorming, planning, and implementation of strategies for knowledge mobilization, or information sharing. This toolkit contains clear steps and resources to assist in planning what information to share, how to share it, and ways to evaluate the impact. Though this toolkit it aimed toward child and youth mental health, the toolkit can easily be used to assist a wellness champion in sharing information to promote their new idea in their school community.
Implementing Evidence-Informed Practice
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
This toolkit is a useful resource that explains evidence-informed practice and how to incorporate the theory into your implementation process. The toolkit also includes various tips and resources to help wellness champions implement their new idea.
http://www.excellenceforchildandyouth.ca/file/9060/download?token=wR6nKbJ4
Healthy Schools BC - Newsletter
Healthy Schools BC - Directorate of Agencies for School Health (DASH) BC
The webpage offers a link to archived newsletters as well as an option to begin receiving the newsletter which contains information related to healthy schools, including relevant stories, programs, and resources.
https://healthyschoolsbc.ca/healthy-schools-bc-resources/healthy-schools-bc-newsletter.aspx