UnlockFood.ca:  UnlockFood is a bilingual, award-winning website brought to you by Dietitians of Canada. UnlockFood is here to help Canadians connect with a dietitian and find the nutrition and food information that they need when they need it.

Childhood Obesity Foundations: Explore more by viewing COF programs and resources on this website like Healthy Beginnings for Preschoolers 2-5, Sip Smart, Screen Smart and more!

 Disordered Eating: Guidelines, resources and contacts for School Staff and parents.

Cook it, Try it, Like it!:  This program is a five-week after-school program designed to promote healthy eating habits by providing students with hands-on experience cooking and tasting nutritious foods.  Two Cook it! kits are at the District office-pictured above. For more info about the program and the kits, contact Andrea.

IH Healthy Eating Toolkit:  School Food Programs; Curriculum Resources; Displays, Posters, and Handouts; School Gardens; ; Guidelines for Food and Beverage Sales in BC Schools; and other resources

Fact Sheet Generator:  The factsheet generator (FSG) is a specialized web-based tool that allows you to customize your own nutrition factsheets with standardized, evidence-based key messages and supporting messages.

Exploring Wild & Local Foods 

in the West Kootenay Presentation - Caley Mulholland:  Check back soon for additional resources, lesson plans, guides, videos and grants. To connect with Caley please see the section below.

Kids Gardening -  is a non-profit organization that creates gardening resources for kids, including lesson plans & ideas for planning school gardens

Coalition for Healthy School Food - is a Canadian network of non-profit organizations who are advocating for public investment and federal standards for a universal cost-shared school food program that would see all children having daily access to healthy food at school. The website includes research on the benefits of nutritious food for students.

 Farm to School: Food literacy resources, lesson plans, start-up guides and grants.

IH Tobacco and Vapour Products in Schools: 

• Toolkit – Vaping School Properties

• Tobacco Resources for Schools

• Vaping & Youth: Factsheet for Parents

• School Compliance

Selkirk College Nursing Students Vaping Project:  Thank you to third-year nursing students, Kass Swankey and Ali D'Onofrio for their hard work creating an SD 20 Drug Literacy Toolkit.  To check out the drug literacy (vaping prevention) toolkit please click the button below.

Clearing the Air:  Youth Research Slam -BC Youth-Led  research project about vaping by the McCreary Centre Society 

Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research:  Resources on Understanding Drug use and Gambling, Facilitating Dialogue in the Classroom, iMind Lesson plans, Professional Learning, Policy, student and parent resources

Here to Help: Mental Health and Substance Use information resource library.

iMINDS:  The website is a collection of resources for schools related to substance use and gambling. The lesson ideas fit well within the scope of BC’s K-12 curriculum with its emphasis on core and curricular competencies. 

Positive Mental Health- Interior Health Toolkit: Programs and Lesson Plan Information; Websites and Resources for Students, Parents and Teachers; Guest Speakers; Reports; and Resources for Families

Searchlight: Directory of local services

Family Action Network (FAN): Health and Development Services

Foundry: Foundry offers young people ages 12-24 health and wellness resources, services and supports – online and through integrated service centres in communities across BC.

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Dr Shami Kang: A variety of short videos on mental wealth. e.g Dealing with Anxiety, Phobias or Chronic Worrying in Your Life, Empathy, Anxiety Explained, the Tech solution etc..

Confident Parents - Thriving Kids:  This Behaviour Program is grounded in the Parent Management Training – Oregon Model developed by Implementation Sciences International Inc. 

McCreary Centre Society - 2018 Report Release and resources. On March 25th, McCreary Centre Society will release Doing Okay? Checking in on the mental health of BC youth. The report shares data from the 2018 BC Adolescent Health Survey (AHS) on youth mental health and will be available for download at www.mcs.bc.ca

Teach Mental Health - UBC 

School mental health literacy has four unique but integrated components:

1. Understanding how to optimize and maintain good mental health,

2. Understanding mental disorders and their treatments,

3. Decreasing stigma, and

4. Increasing health-seeking efficacy.​

Mindfulness Toolkit:  Simple, easy-to-implement exercises that you can use in your classroom to foster mindfulness, self-awareness and emotional intelligence

Sleep Hygiene Resources:  

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Kelty Mental Health:  Resource library on mindfulness including videos, apps, tools and podcasts.

Interior Health- Resources for Teachers: Teaching Sexual Health Education; Sexual Health Information and Lesson Plans by Grade Level and Topic; Online Resources; Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Resources; and Resources to order.

Workshops, educational and prevention material to help keep kids safe online and in everyday life

Community Resources: Comprehensive directory of local resources in the West Kootenays. E.g. Options for Sexual Health Clinics, helplines and counselling.

Basin PLAYS - Physical Literacy in Schools Community of Practice:  CoP offers a platform for educators and physical literacy practitioners to share ideas, evidence-based resources, projects and learning opportunities. Multiple physical literacy resources, events, projects and organizations are also housed on the Basin PLAYS Hub.