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Wellness School Toolkit

The Wellness Movement – Government of New Brunswick

This toolkit offers ideas on championing wellness in the areas of mental fitness and resilience, physical activity, healthy eating, and tobacco free living.

http://www.wellnessnb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Wellness_School-Toolkit_BIL.pdf


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.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/586814ae2e69cfb1676a5c0b/t/5893a11cf5e231c597abdba4/1486070045356/Organization+Conditions+Booklet+English.pdf


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.

https://participaction.cdn.prismic.io/participaction%2F38570bed-b325-4fc8-8855-f15c9aebac12_2018_participaction_report_card_-_full_report_0.pdf


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.

http://www.jcsh-cces.ca/


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/


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