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
Eat Smart, Meet Smart – How to Plan and Host Healthy Meetings, Events and Conferences
A supplement to the Eat Smart, Meet Smart Guide, this document is an example of a simple healthy meeting policy template for the workplace. It can easily be adopted for use in your school community.
https://www.alberta.ca/assets/documents/health-eatsmartmeetsmart-policy.pdf
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Tamarack Institute, Galen MacLusky and Sarah Hennig
A step-by-step tool intended to assist in identifying, framing, and planning for the implementation of an idea to create impact.
Alberta Health Services
A list of resources that may be used by wellness champions to assist in the implementation of policies and programs based on the comprehensive school health approach to create a healthy school environment. The list is organized into two types of resources: ‘classroom resources’ for resources specific to teaching and ‘supplementary information’ for resources specific to health.
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.