The Psychology Foundation of Canada has published a “Raising Resilient Kids” handout for parents to help their children develop strengths.
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The “Cost of Eating” report by The Dieticians of Canada provides best practices and recommendations for reducing hunger and poverty.
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Dan Dubrovsky, FASD Specialist for SAMHSA FASD Centre for Excellence, responds with concern to a recent article in the British Telegraph newspaper
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Checkout the practical information, tools and resources.
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Food Skills for Families is a hands-on curriculum based program that makes healthy eating, shopping and cooking easy, quick and fun.
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As part of Kelty Mental Health’s Pinwheel Education Series, this recording on Nutrition and Mental Health includes a panel discussion of strategies parents, children and youth can use to promote good nutrition.
Read MoreThe National Projects Fund Mothers’ Mental Health Toolkit is officially available. This well developed and practical kit has been mailed out to all CAPC and CPNP projects and training on the use of the kit is being planned across the province.
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Check out the Canadian Red Cross’ new Be Safe! Safety Kit for children aged 5-9, based on the same format as the former c.a.r.e. program but completely refreshed and updated, and designed to help educators promote children’s safety by helping to prevent sexual abuse.
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In September, Healthy Minds Canada (HMC), in collaboration with various partners across Canada, hosted the 5th annual Open Minds Across Canada Mental Health Symposia, which provided an opportunity for members of the community to receive information and resources on mental health and addictions.
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In her webinar on Gender and Addictions, Kirsty Prasad addresses what is unique about women and substance use, as well as the barriers women face.
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In their Dec 5th webinar, Food Security and Social Housing, the BC Healthy Living Alliance looked at ways that food security is being and can be addressed in social housing.
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Worries & Woes: Preventing Anxiety in Children, presented by Dr Lynn Miller as part of the UBC “in the know” series in association with the F.O.R.C.E. Society for Kids’ Mental Health, provides an overview of mental health disorders in children, research findings, resources, and suggestions for how families can support mental health interventions.
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Funded through PHAC National Priorities: FASD, the College of New Caledonia has published FASD Informed Practice for Community Based Programs. Hard copies will be mailed out later this month to PHAC projects that have not picked theirs up already at the BCAPOP Conference.
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) publishes a wide range of support resources on FASD. This month we look at two of them, What Do I Do? Helping Your Kids Understand Their Sibling’s Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and My Sibling has FASD: Can I Catch It?
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Report describes what can be done to support healthy eating in the food retail setting, including suggestions for program development, implementation, and evaluation.
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A guide to healthy living for families who have a child or youth living with mental health challenges.
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Make the Connection™ is a facilitated, interactive parenting program of The Psychology Foundation of Canada (PFC) designed specifically to address the promotion of secure attachment for children 0-3.
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Your Keeping in Touch team recently attended a webinar where the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention presented the Essentials for Childhood resource.
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The theme of Safe Kids Week 2013 focuses on concussion prevention and awareness.
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The new Healthy Eating Toolbox has been developed for parents and caregivers of children aged 2-12, by Health Canada and other contributors, to provide consistent messaging and easy-to-use tools that promote the importance of healthy eating to Canadian families.
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