School Health
Healthy Eating in Schools: Policy Recommendations
Alberta Health Services
This resource is intended to guide wellness champions as they develop and implement healthy eating policies for school-provided food. Included in the resource are strategies and resources to help guide the process of developing healthy eating policies.
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/school/csh/if-sch-csh-he-policy-recommendations.pdf
The Sandbox: Your Space for Healthy School Workplaces
Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan
This website provides up-to-date resources, information and a blog about supporting employee wellness in a school community. The website provides a way for wellness champions from all over the province to collaborate to bring new ideas forward in school communities. While many of the resources provided on the website are focused on employee wellness they can easily be adopted to help move any new idea forward in a school community.
https://thewellnesssandbox.ca/
The Comprehensive School Health Approach
Alberta Health Services
This webpage provides a number of useful documents and tools to help support the implementation of comprehensive school health. Visit the webpage to find background information on comprehensive school health, how to implement school wellness policies, gaining support of the community, etc.
http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/info/csh.aspx
Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health – Resources
Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health
The resources found within the Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health provide supportive evidence across a range of comprehensive school health topics (e.g., mental health, physical activity, healthy eating, etc.).
http://www.jcsh-cces.ca/index.php/resources
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.
http://www.wellnessfund.ualberta.ca/
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
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/