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Tools and Toolkits
Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health
This webpage offers resources that a wellness champion can use to plan specific school-based initiatives. The toolkits focus on mental health, youth engagement, and substance use, and provide strategies for implementing initiatives for each.
http://www.jcsh-cces.ca/index.php/resources/tools-toolkits
Success Stories!
EverActive Schools
This webpage includes a list of ‘success stories’ from Ever Active Schools that provides examples of school communities using a comprehensive school health approach from across Canada.
https://everactive.org/success-stories-hhse/
Steps for Building Healthy School Communities
Alberta Health Services
This webpage offers a 6-step process to help implement new ideas and build a healthy school community. In each step, there are relevant resources that a wellness champion could use to effectively move through the process.
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/info/Page7123.aspx
Programs & Support
Healthy Schools BC - Directorate of Agencies for School Health (DASH) BC
This webpage lists many programs and resources that support the Comprehensive School Health Framework. A wellness champion could use the webpage to search for examples of initiatives they could use in their school community.
https://www.healthyschoolsbc.ca/programs.aspx
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.