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To find topics on Food Literacy, School Gardens, Tobacco, Vapour Products and Drug Literacy, Mental Health Literacy, Sexual Health Education & Child Protection, Mindfulness & Sleep Hygiene, and Physical Literacy.
Food Literacy
Healthy Eating

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.
Healthy Eating

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!
Healthy Eating

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

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.
Healthy Eating

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
Healthy Eating

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.
Healthy Eating

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.
Healthy Eating

Teach Food First: An Educator’s Toolkit for Exploring Canada’s Food Guide with K-8 Students.
This toolkit was developed by the Ministry of Health and the BC Centre for Disease Control in partnership with public health dietitians, BC teachers, and Indigenous Knowledge Keepers.
Healthy Eating & Gardening

BC Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation: A non-profit, charitable organization that works with educators to bring agriculture and food education to students throughout the province.
School Gardens

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

School Gardens
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.

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

Breakfast Programs
Breakfast Club of Canada
Works with partners from all sectors across Canada to deliver quality school food programs and advocate for a national school food program. Their website has multiple resources for schools and is where schools can apply for funding.

Weight Neutral Approaches to CSH
Weight-neutral approaches to Comprehensive School Health resources and research references curated by Elizabeth Tingle, University of Calgary instructor and presenter, and advocate for weight-neutral health promotion in school settings. She is also a co-hosts a podcast series - The Podclass: Conversations on School Health at teacherfanclub.com


Tobacco & Vaping
IH Tobacco and Vapour Products in Schools:

Tobacco & Vaping
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.

Tobacco & Vaping
Clearing the Air: Youth Research Slam -BC Youth-Led research project about vaping by the McCreary Centre Society
Drug & Gambling Literacy
Drug Literacy

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
Drug Literacy

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

Tobacco & Vaping
Quash is a smoking and vaping cessation app, powered by the Lung Health Foundation. It’s specifically designed to help youth (14-19) quit and quit for good.
There are two versions of the Quash program that can be used separately or together, depending on the needs of the young person trying to quit:

Tobacco & Vaping
Vaping & Tobacco Education Toolkits:
Vaping Health Education Toolkits for Parents & Teachers | BC Lung Foundation
Tobacco Prevention Toolkit | Stanford University

Drug Literacy
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.

Drug Literacy
The Youth Cannabis Awareness Program (YCAP) offers free programming to youth aged 12 to 24, as well as adults (parents/guardians and professionals) involved in the lives of youth. Informed by protective factors contributing to youth mental health, YCAP provides a multi-faceted approach to increase knowledge and skills supporting positive youth development.
Mental Health

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
Mental Health & Media Literacy
Mental Health

Searchlight: Directory of local services
Family Action Network (FAN): Health and Development Services
Trail FAIR: offers family resources, counselling, crisis and legal assistance and other community services.
Castlegar Community Services: provides multiple services to Castlegar and the area.
Mental Health

Foundry
Foundry centres and Foundry’s provincial virtual services offer drop-in and scheduled counselling and peer support, primary care, employment support and groups for young people aged 12-24 and their caregivers across B.C. No referrals are required and all services are free and confidential. Please distribute information about Foundry services to your students as needed and support them with accessing a centre or registering for an account on the Foundry BC App.
Mental Health

Teach Mental Health - UBC
School mental health literacy has four unique but integrated components:
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Understanding how to optimize and maintain good mental health,
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Understanding mental disorders and their treatments,
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Decreasing stigma, and
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Increasing health-seeking efficacy.
Mental Health

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
Mental Health

erase
erase is all about building safe and caring school communities. This includes empowering students, parents, educators and the community partners who support them to get help with challenges, report concerns to schools, and learn about complex issues facing students.
Mental Health

Teacher Stress Management Toolkit™ for School Leaders.
Open Parachute offers a free toolkit to improve the well-being of your staff so they can better support your students.
Mental Health

Mental Health Service Directory for Youth in Interior Health
Click on a link below for a description of that service and to find a Mental Health & Substance Use Centre near you.
Mental Health

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..
Mental Health

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

MediaSmarts has been developing digital and media literacy programs and resources for Canadian homes, schools and communities since 1996. They offer K-12 resources that cover a wide range of issues arising from digital media that can easily integrate into the existing curriculum.
Mindfulness

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

Kelty Mental Health: Resource library on mindfulness including videos, apps, tools and podcasts.
Mindfulness & Sleep Hygiene
Sexual Health Education & Child Protection
Sexual Health

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.

Sexual Health
Body Science Make and Takes is a collaboration between SD20 teachers and Katherine Kimmerly

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

Workshops, educational and prevention material to help keep kids safe online and in everyday life
Child Protection
Body Science

SOGI
SOGI 1 2 3 helps educators make schools inclusive and safe for students of all sexual orientations and gender identities (SOGI). At a SOGI-inclusive school, students' gender does not limit their interests and opportunities, and their sexual orientation and how they understand and express their gender are welcomed without discrimination.
Child Protection
Physical Literacy
Physical Literacy & Outdoor Learning

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.

Healthy Schools
Healthy Schools BC (HSBC) strengthens health-education partnerships and supports effective implementation of healthy school initiatives using a comprehensive school health approach (CSH).

Active for life
Active for Life is a Canadian not-for-profit social initiative founded by B2ten. We are a national initiative created to help parents give their children the right start in life through the development of physical literacy.
Physical Literacy
Physical Literacy
Physical Literacy
Outdoor Learning
