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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Guess who's behind Canada's Vapers' Protest Movement? 

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Tobacco Company Invests in Pharmaceuticals & NRT Products 

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Health Canada Study following Vapers over 2 years found no Reduction in Tobacco Smoking 

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

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Family Action Network (FAN): Health and Development Services

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Trail FAIR: offers family resources, counselling, crisis and legal assistance and other community services.

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Castlegar Community Services: provides multiple services to Castlegar and the area.

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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.

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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.​

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

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.​

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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.​

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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.​

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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. 

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.

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

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

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. 

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.