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
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
Refining Your Ideas
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.
http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/library/refining-your-ideas
Public Engagement Guide
Newfoundland Labrador Office of Engagement
This guide outlines the use of public engagement in public policy development and how to develop effective public participation processes. Though directed towards policy-makers, a wellness champion could use this resource to engage their school community to help inform the development of a new idea.
https://ope.gov.nl.ca/publications/pdf/OPE_PEGuide.pdf