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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)
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.
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.
The Centre for Suicide Prevention
The website has a wealth of knowledge-based resources on suicide prevention, from infographics to in-depth editorial articles.
Through My Eyes
A documentary on Edmonton’s homeless youth. Created by the City of Edmonton Youth Council. (1 hour)
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.