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Paper Tigers
This documentary is available on Tugg Educational. Information can be viewed by trailer from Amazon $28 USD. Free Facilitator’s Guide is also available on this website. (1 hour 42 minutes)
Home Fire: Ending the Cycle of Family Violence
Presented by the Native Counselling Services of Alberta, this video explores family violence and restorative justice from an Aboriginal Perspective. Includes guide. (37 minutes)
Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
The website contains a videos and podcasts on a wide range of topics including brain architecture, ACEs, Resilience, Stress.
Trauma Informed Care: Perspectives and Resources
A Comprehensive Web-based, Video-enhanced Resource Tool series of modules with videos, briefs and resources. This information is offered through Georgetown University’s Centre for Child and Human Development. (30 minutes to 90 minutes each)
Trauma-Informed: A Trauma Toolkit
This toolkit from Klinic Community Health Centre aims to provide knowledge to service providers working with adults who have experienced or been affected by trauma. It will also help service providers and organizations to work from a trauma-informed perspective and develop trauma-informed relationships that cultivate safety, trust and compassion.
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.
Safe Messaging about Suicide, Mental Illness and Mental Health
The Mental Health Commission of Canada offers this 1-hour webinar to help people learn how to safely talk about suicide and mental health. Information will be provided to help participants gain the confidence necessary to learn from people with lived experience and engage in safe and meaningful conversation about suicide and mental health. (1 hour)
Prevention, Intervention and Postvention of Suicide
The Alberta Children’s Mental Health Learning Series offers this video. It highlights the basics of suicide statistics, and learn approaches to universal prevention, early intervention and postvention (dealing with the aftermath of a death by suicide) for youth.
Concurrent Disorders Learning Series
This Alberta Health Services series includes videos dealing with topics related to suicide prevention. Access through the Crisis Intervention link on the website.
Zero Suicide Toolkit
This toolkit is a comprehensive program of strategies, tools and readings to assist behavioral health providers in achieving safe suicide care. Addresses the following core components: Lead, Train Identify, Engage, Treat, Transition, Improve. This is offered by the Suicide Prevention Resource Centre and the National Alliance for Suicide Prevention.
Toolkit for People who have been Impacted by a Suicide Attempt
The Mental Health Commission of Canada in conjunction with the Centre for Suicide Prevention offer this toolkit is a summary of the tools that have resonated most with the hundreds of people who completed our online survey.
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.
Understanding Historical Trauma and Health Status of Aboriginal People
This AHS video addresses how historical trauma has impacted health of aboriginal people; identifies cultural approaches to wellness; outlines policy considerations; identifies effective cultural tools used in Aboriginal health. (75 minutes)
Through My Eyes
A documentary on Edmonton’s homeless youth. Created by the City of Edmonton Youth Council. (1 hour)
Resiliency Theory: What Works
Michael Unger speaks on helping people navigate and negotiate what they need. Elements include structure/consequences; parent/child connections; multiple broader networks; powerful identity; sense of control; rights are respected; safety/support; responsibility for others. (30 minutes)
Homelessness & Mental Health in Edmonton: Addressing the Stigma
Edmonton Social Planning Council identifies homelessness and mental health statistics in Edmonton and throughout Alberta and outlines common barriers to accessing needed community and social supports. Highlights evidence-informed interventions to address stigma.
Have THAT Talk Series
This Ottawa Public Health series includes a variety of short videos on various mental health topics geared towards the general public, parents and workplace.
Emotional Regulation and Recovery from Mental Illness: Regulation Skills, Training at the Core of Stepped Care
This AHS video explores the connection between behavioural neuroscience and addictions and range of emotional disorders; outlines how emotional skills training is an effective treatment in a coordinated, stepped-care model. (37 minutes)
Concurrent Disorders: An Introduction
This AHS video addresses epidemiological data, underlying models and risk factors; overlap between mental health and addictions, assessment process, common presentation of concurrent disorders, treatment approaches. Address relationship with ACEs. (30 minutes)
Children’s Mental Health Learning Series
The GOA series includes 18 videos and resources dealing with wide range of mental health issues for children and youth. (1 hour to 1 ½ hours each)
Kids Have Stress Too
PFC offers a wide range of resources that available, designed for parents, those who work with young children in early learning settings, and for classrooms. (COST: $2.00 Parent Resources; $25-$35 Teacher Resources)
First Nations, Metis & Inuit HEADSTRONG Youth Summit Toolkit
This summit toolkit offered by MHCC is intended to educate students by improving their knowledge, attitudes and intended behaviours towards those living with a mental illness or mental health problem.
Beyond the Label
CAMH offers an Educational Kit to Promote Awareness and Understanding of the Impact of Stigma on People Living with Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Problems
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.
Resilience: Biology of Stress and Science of Hope (documentary)
A one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent Toxic Stress. (COST: US$395 DVD ; US$175 Digital 1 yr rental)
Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
The website contains a videos and podcasts on a wide range of topics including brain architecture, ACEs, Resilience, Stress.
Portico Childhood Trauma Toolkit
Childhood Trauma toolkit offers resources to pediatric clinicians to assess, understand and develop treatment plans for children and youth and their families.
Childhood Trauma Toolkit for Educators
National Childhood Trauma Stress Network provides school administrators, teachers, staff, and concerned parents with basic information about working with traumatized children in the school system.
Brain Architecture Game
The Brain Architecture Game is a tabletop game experience that builds understanding of the powerful role of experiences on early brain development – what promotes it, what derails it, with what consequences for society. (COST: USD $99 for package)
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.
Engaging Clients with Complex PTSD and Chronic Substance Abuse Issues
This AHS video addresses effective engagement interventions for those experiencing chronic substance abuse and complex PTSD. (52 minutes)
Domestic Violence & Addictions and Mental Health Parts 1 and 2 (AHS)
This AHS video series includes – Part 1: Key messages include Prolonged exposure to violence is associated with onset, duration and recurrence of mental health disorders/addictive behaviours. 2: Responding to Domestic Violence. (38 minutes)
Concurrent Disorder Comprehensive Assessment
This video demonstrates how to engage clients in assessment, treatment planning and a decision making that is guided by ASAM’s patient placement criteria. (70 minutes)
Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Website contains a variety of videos related to addictions and substance misuse.
Enhancing Concurrent Capability Toolkit
This toolkit is intended to support critical components including Engagement strategy, Understanding Concurrent Capable Competencies, Screening, Assessment, Treatment Planning, offered through AHS.
Harm Reduction: A British Columbia Community Guide
Harm Reduction: A British Columbia Community Guide This guide assists municipalities in taking a leadership and a facilitative role in reducing the level of drug related harm in their communities.
Addiction Prevention Toolkit (AHS)
The purpose of the toolkit is to provide documents that will help facilitate connections with community partners and members of the general public with the goal of raising awareness and building relationships.
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.
Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
Website offers various resources on Harm Reduction including Best Practices, Recommendations for Harm Reduction Programs, Harm Reduction as a Tool for Health Living, Harm Reduction in Action
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.