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Workplace Strategies for Mental Health / Canada Life
This website has a plethora of Workplace Health and Safety resources for management and staff. Includes free training and tools.
Workplace Health and Wellness Guide
Designed and written as a practical training and reference tool, this 190- page pocket guide will help you establish a workplace health program (or enhance your existing program) by providing information, tips, charts, checklists and illustrations. Developed by CCOHS (Cost $15)
The Psychology Foundation of Canada
This website contains various articles on workplace wellness.
The National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace
The National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (the Standard) is a set of voluntary guidelines, tools and resources intended to guide organizations in promoting mental health and preventing psychological harm at work.
Guarding Minds @ Work
A free resource from WSMH to help you and your organization improve psychological health and safety in your workplace. It consists of a set of self-serve tools to assess and address factors known to impact employee psychological health and safety and evaluate the effectiveness of these efforts.
Elements and Priorities for Working Toward a Psychologically Safer Workplace
This report was prepared to support organizational readiness to embrace the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (the Standard). It includes the 5 elements of a standard management approach, to creating and sustaining an organizational plan of mental health and wellness. Offered through WSMH.
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
This website contains many resources on topics such as stress, mental health in the workplace and work-life balance.
Trauma Informed Community Initiative of WNY
The website contains resource repository related to trauma informed care for families, providers, organizations and communities
Trauma Informed Care Newsletter
This AHS Newsletter includes articles on various topics related to trauma-informed care.
Childhood Trauma Toolkit
This toolkit offers resources to pediatric clinicians to assess, understand and develop treatment plans for children and youth and their families, offered through the Portico Network.
Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience: A Framework for Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma
This paper explores trauma at the population level and how it impacts efforts to prevent violence and improve other aspects of community health. It also presents a framework for addressing and preventing trauma at the community level.
Living Hope: A Community Plan to Prevent Suicide in Edmonton
This website offers information, education and training opportunities free of charge for Edmontonians.
Suicide Information & Education Services (Red Deer)
This website offers information, education, support and referral services. Resources include information for employers, teachers/counsellors, families and youth. There is also information on grief.
The Centre for Suicide Prevention
The website has a wealth of knowledge-based resources on suicide prevention, from infographics to in-depth editorial articles.
The Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) Guide and TIP Organizational Checklist
This Guide was developed on behalf of British Columbia’s Centre for Women’s Health in consultation with researchers, practitioners, and health system planners across British Columbia.
PolicyWise for Children and Families
This website contains a range of resources on a wide variety of topics relating to generating knowledge to influence positive changes for children and families, including Aboriginal Children, Youth and Families.
Creating a Compassionate Classroom
The Alberta Teachers’ Association offers this booklet to help educate all of us about mental health, mental illness, and how we can help our students, our colleagues and ourselves. This booklet encourages the development of more compassionate classrooms, schools and communities by changing how we look at mental health and mental illness, school culture, education, policy and partnerships on the large scale, but also the small.
Changing for Good
A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward. Authors: Prochaska, Norcross and DiClementi (COST $9.00 Amazon)
Centre for the Developing Child – Harvard University
This website offers a resource library containing resources, videos and guides on a wide variety of topics related to childhood mental health, including brain architecture, toxic stress, resilience.
Mental Health Commission of Canada
This website contains resources on a wide range of mental health topics, including a monthly newsletter.
HEADSTRONG
HEADSTRONG is an evidence-based anti-stigma initiative created by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). It inspires youth ages 12-18 to Be Brave, Reach Out and Speak Up about mental health. Now a national initiative, HEADSTRONG teaches students how to reduce stigma and become mental health champions in their schools. CMHA Edmonton has a partnership with MHCC and coordinates and delivers Headstrong Youth Summits across Alberta.
Well-Being and Resiliency: A Framework for Supporting Safe and Healthy Children and Families
This Alberta Children Services Framework in part aims to support protective factors for healthy brain development. Has an accompanying evaluation framework.
VetoViolence
This CDC website includes tools and resources pertaining to the impact of all types of violence within communities. Of particular interest are the Principles of Prevention and Resiliency Factor Guide.
Miyo Resource
The Miyo Resource is an Indigenous approach to child and family well-being service delivery and evaluation.
Community Resilience Initiative (CRI)
Website offers resources and videos related to ACES, trauma informed practice, with a focus on resilience.
Centre for Disease Control
This website contains a variety to resources on child abuse and neglect, ACEs, protective and risk factors, prevention strategies.
Building Community Resilience: Coalition Building and Communications Guide
This guide provides an approach to collaboration that addresses adverse childhood experiences and adverse community experiences. Developed by Spitfire Strategies and the Centre for Health Care in Schools and Aspen Institute.
Streetworks
The Streetworks Harm Reduction approach is a set of non-judgmental strategies and approaches, which aim to provide or enhance the skills, knowledge, resources and support street involved injection drug users’ and sex trade (target population) need to live safe and healthier lives.
Harm Reduction Coalition
Website offers a variety of publications, multimedia resources and archived webinars on various harm reduction principles, approaches and strategies.
Drug Safe (AHS)
Drug Safe offers information for the public on Alcohol, Cannabis and Opioids
Community Education Service
Website provides parents/caregivers and other community members with opportunities to access free, public education sessions on child and youth emotional wellness and health topics.
Harm Reduction
Harm Reduction – Harm Reduction is an evidence-based, client-centred approach that seeks to reduce the health and social harms associated with addiction and substance use. Identifies examples and goals. (1 page information sheet)
Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction
Website offers a variety of research, reports, videos, podcasts and publications related to substance use and addictions and harm reduction. Also includes the Competencies for Canada’s Substance Abuse Workforce.