Developing Strategic and Action Plans
Community Tool Box
This toolkit outlines 11 key steps and associated resources to help support developing, implementing and evaluating a new idea.
Developing Healthy School Communities: Handbook
Alberta Healthy School Community Wellness Fund, Centre for Health Promotion Studies, University of Alberta
This document provides an overview of the work funded by the Alberta Healthy School Community Wellness Fund (AHSCWF; University of Alberta). Through the AHSCWF a variety of projects are funded that support the development of healthy school communities. This is a great resource that provides background information on the important components of supporting comprehensive school health.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jhfq-aY6uGnyzenVCmoZ7Mgzb-AGQRK2/view
Developing Health Communication Campaigns
Public Health Ontario
This presentation deck outlines the different steps of the health communication campaign planning model and illustrates how you can apply these steps to your own situation. The resource also provides a 12-item checklist to help you develop persuasive health communication messages.
http://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/eRepository/Developing_health_communication_campaigns_2012.pdf
Champion and Team
Physical & Health Education Canada
This website outlines different types of programs that can help school communities create a healthy school environment. More specifically, it provides examples of relevant programming, and connects wellness champions and school community members to help them share their ideas and experiences.
Apple Schools: Alberta Project Promoting Active Living and Healthy Eating
The APPLE Schools Foundation
This website provides information on the Alberta Project Promoting Active Living & Healthy Eating (APPLE) Schools. The website also includes a wealth of resources related to supporting comprehensive school health.
Alberta Healthy School Community Wellness Fund
School of Public Health, University of Alberta
Alberta Healthy School Community Wellness Fund offers funding support for school jurisdictions in Alberta seeking to create healthy school communities using a Comprehensive School Health Framework. This website provides information on upcoming grants, success stories of previous wellness initiatives, Alberta-based data resources, and information about comprehensive school health.
Advocating for Change
Community Tool Box
This resource outlines key steps that can be taken to raise awareness about an idea and ways to identify potential sources of opposition to a new idea.
http://ctb.ku.edu/en/advocating-change#node_toolkits_full_group_outline
Advocacy Toolkit
College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta
This webpage provides valuable information and resources about how to translate ideas to decision-makers (e.g., school leadership team).
https://www.nurses.ab.ca/about/what-is-carna/policy-priorities-and-research/advocacy-toolkit
Workplace – National Standard
Mental Health Commission of Canada
This webpage provides an outline of the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the workplace. The webpage offers suggestions for implementation in a separate guide that a wellness champion could use to promote psychological health and safety in their school environment. Both the ‘standard’ and ‘implementation guide’ are available by download.
https://www.mentalhealthcommission.ca/English/what-we-do/workplace/national-standard
Working Together to Support Mental Health in Alberta Schools
Government of Alberta
This resource provides relevant information related to mental health practices and guides the implementation of a whole-school approach to promote positive mental health.
https://education.alberta.ca/media/3576206/working_together_to_support_mental_health.pdf