Tools for the Adoption of New Ideas
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/
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.
Knowledge Mobilization Toolkit
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
This is a toolkit that is intended to facilitate brainstorming, planning, and implementation of strategies for knowledge mobilization, or information sharing. This toolkit contains clear steps and resources to assist in planning what information to share, how to share it, and ways to evaluate the impact. Though this toolkit it aimed toward child and youth mental health, the toolkit can easily be used to assist a wellness champion in sharing information to promote their new idea in their school community.
Implementing Evidence-Informed Practice
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
This toolkit is a useful resource that explains evidence-informed practice and how to incorporate the theory into your implementation process. The toolkit also includes various tips and resources to help wellness champions implement their new idea.
http://www.excellenceforchildandyouth.ca/file/9060/download?token=wR6nKbJ4
Guarding Minds at Work: A Workplace Guide to Psychological Health and Safety
Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA)
This resource offers an eight step tool that wellness champions and district leadership could use to work together to assess workplace psychological health and safety. The resource also offers strategies and ‘action items’ to help implement a plan to promote psychological health and safety in the workplace.
https://www.guardingmindsatwork.ca/
Foundations for a Healthy School
Government of Ontario
This document that outlines five specific areas that can contribute to creating a healthy school environment. These areas are used to frame strategies and activities relevant to specific health topics that may be used by wellness champions.
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/healthyschools/resourceF4HS.pdf
Alberta School Councils Association – Awards
Alberta School Councils Association
This webpage outlines the four awards that recognize Albertan schools and their staff who display specific practices valued by the Alberta School Councils Association such as student learning support, parental engagement, and community partnerships. The webpage also links to previous award recipients.
https://www.albertaschoolcouncils.ca/school-councils/awards-of-recognition