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
Healthy Schools BC – Directorate of Agencies for School Health (DASH) BC
The webpage offers a link to archived newsletters as well as an option to begin receiving the newsletter which contains information related to healthy schools, including relevant stories, programs, and resources.
https://healthyschoolsbc.ca/healthy-schools-bc-resources/healthy-schools-bc-newsletter.aspx
Durham Region Health Department
This toolkit provides strategies for building a healthier school for all members of the school community (administrators, teachers, students, parents and community partners).
https://www.durham.ca/en/health-and-wellness/resources/Documents/SchoolHealth/schoolToolkit.pdf
Alberta Health Services
This webpage provides a list of resources that can be used to guide the process of developing a new idea in the school environment by offering information and examples of school-based health policies.
Alberta Health Services
This webpage provides resources to help promote healthy eating in the workplace. The resources include tip sheets and posters that a wellness champion could use to increase awareness for a healthy eating initiative within a school community.
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/nutrition/Page6348.aspx
Public Health Agency of Canada
This webpage lists a number of topics with links to related resources that include general information, tools and strategies, and current news and updates. Included topics and resources, such as healthy living, mental health, and physical activity, could be used by wellness champions to support the planning and implementation of a new idea.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/health-promotion.html
Government of Ontario
This is a tool that can assist wellness champions to make decisions and consider the health impact of their new idea. This can help reduce the likelihood of creating disparities between the populations who will be impacted by their new idea. This tool has a workbook and a template to help wellness champions through five steps: scoping, potential impacts, mitigation, monitoring, and dissemination.
Public Health Ontario
This webpage provides a summary and link to the ‘At a Glance: 12 Steps for Developing a Health Communication Campaign’ guide that a wellness champion could use to develop a health communication campaign in their school environment. In the guide, a wellness champion will find the step-by-step process to create a campaign as well as associated worksheets to assist in planning.
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.
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