CSBA Committee on School Health and Wellness is committed to working in partnership with government, non-government, and community partners to advocate for active healthy lifestyles. Benefits to creating healthy learning environments include: greater overall achievement, well-rounded students, decreased discipline problems and improved attendance, improved lifelong health, reduced disparities. We are committed to demonstrating leadership and providing a national voice in responding to the health and wellness challenges of students across Canada. Our Charter of Commitment provides a clear mission, terms of reference and a framework for our work.
From our partners at PHE CANADA…
“Healthy children have increased capacity to learn and develop the values, attitudes and skills necessary to be competent, effective and resilient adults. Learning environments that promote and support student and child well-being focus on their cognitive, emotional, social and physical development – a whole child/student approach. This comprehensive approach aims to improve student health and educational success through the creation of healthy school communities.
A healthy school community promotes a culture of wellness for all its members: students, teachers, administrators, principals, staff, parents, and community partners. Together, the school community implements plans to create an environment that supports healthy choices among its members.”
The above organization provides resources, frameworks for Healthy School Communities and current research. Please visit http://phecanada.ca.
Other links:
- Research (the 2016 report card) presented on How Active are Canadian Children are is available at here
- Association of supervision and curriculum has excellent resources: www.ASCD.org
- The Joint Consortium for School Health is a Pan Canadian partnership of provincial, territorial and federal Health and Education Ministries to promote student wellness and achievement in the school setting. There are many useful links and information on current practices: http://www.jcsh-cces.ca
- Find their toolkit here: http://wmaproducts.com/JCSH/
- Finally, www.courtsystem.org has a complete database of listings for all emergency, legal and law enforcement government offices in the country – with working phone numbers and directions.
Other sites that also provide research, guidelines and resources specific to Mental Health:
Interactive map: Cannabis laws across Canada
Updated on Monday, January 8, 2018 at 3:39 PM CST: Adds info on Saskatchewan retail sales.
www.playistheway.ca
PLAY IS THE WAY® is as much a process as it is a program.
The Facts on Education: How can we best support student mental well-being?
Think, Feel, Act: Lessons from Research about Young Children Self-Regulation. Ontario Ministry of Education http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/childcare/selfRegulate.html Calm, Alert and Happy – an article written by Stuart Shanker Shanker, Stuart. "Calm, Alert and Happy.
Mental Health
The statistics regarding youth mental health problems are staggering. According to the Mental Health Commission of Canada (CMCC), between 15% and 25 % of our children and youth suffer at least one mental health problem or illness.
Managing School Health
School connectedness is about creating a school community where everyone feels cared for - safe, seen, heard, supported and significant. The focus is building strong positive relationships between students, staff, families and the larger community.
Who uses EDI data?
Early childhood coalitions, early child development workers, and school representatives use EDI data to inform their work with children and young families by identifying strengths and needs within their communities.
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Child & Teen Mental Health
Use the map to find mental health services and intake clinics for children and teens – click on a location to see contact information and a description of services offered.
Here's Where Colorado Spends Its Skyrocketing Pot Tax Revenue
Colorado moved first into creating a regulated recreational marijuana system, and the state is starting to see the benefits in a huge way. According to numbers from the state, marijuana tax, license and fee revenue collected in 2016 almost hit the $200 million mark. To be exact: $198.5 million.
Letter to CMEC-Concussions
As you may be aware, we have been mandated by the Prime Minister to promote healthier Canadians through sport and recreation.
What is a "Comprehensive School Health Approach"?
Comprehensive school health (CSH) is an approach rather than a program or initiative. An internationally recognized framework, CSH addresses school health in a planned, integrated, and holistic way in order to support improvements in student achievement and well-being.
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Results from PHE Canada’s Healthy School Communities of Practice Survey
PHE Canada, with funding support from the Lawson Foundation, has been working with schools across Canada for the last 5 years to help school health teams build healthier school communities.
5 ways to keep kids playing sports
Editor’s note: Two of the most consistently popular articles on our site are “Why kids quit sports” and “Top 5 reasons kids play sports“. We wanted to publish the below article that delves deeper into this important topic and offers solutions to parents that keep all our kids playing.
Healthy School Communities National Forum
The goal of the 2015 Healthy School Communities National Forum was to equip delegates with the tools, evidence, network, and motivation to support schools in becoming more comprehensive in their approach to school health and move toward healthier outcomes.
Law allows parents to opt out their children from controversial Ontario sex-education curriculum
TORONTO — As Ontario finally revealed on Monday an update to a sex-education curriculum that’s stagnated since 1998, parents were told they could pull their children out of some but not all of the lessons.
Play it Fair! in Canada
Play It Fair! is an innovative program implemented in day camps and after school programs across Canada that increases children aged 6-12 understanding of human rights, respect for diversity and peaceful conflict resolution.
School Mental Health Literacy
The increasing global awareness of the need to address youth mental health in the school setting is now spreading across Canada. Numerous initiatives at the school, school board and policy (provincial and territorial) levels have begun to develop.
Global School Health Statement
The following statement was developed out of the first Global School Health Symposium—a multi-level, multi-sectorial discussion involving more than 60 leading education, health, and school health experts from across twenty countries held in Pattaya, Thailand, in 2013.
Canadian kids near bottom of international physical activity survey
A new report reveals that the overall physical activity levels of Canadian kids are lagging behind those of youngsters from other nations.
School-Mental-Health-Package.pdf
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Teen Mental Health
It was only in the last decade that science has provided us with some real insight into how the brain works, develops and adapts. The best way to learn more about the brain is to learn about the hardware (what makes up the brain) and then the software (what it can do, how it functions). Watch Dr.
Public Health Agency of Canada
John G. Freeman, Matthew King, and William Pickett WITH Wendy Craig, Frank Elgar, Ian Janssen, and Don Klinger To promote and protect the health of Canadians through leadership, partnership, innovation and action in public health.
Child Well-Being in Rich Countries: A comparative overview
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Education Today
This site features selected articles written by staff of the Ontario Public School Boards' Association, and are copyright OPSBA. Copyright on articles by freelance writers remains with the author.
Ontario Coalition for Children and Youth Mental Health
Summit on Children & Youth Mental Health April 7-8, 2016Summit location: Allstream Centre, 105 Princes' Boulevard, Toronto Click here for more information on the Summit on Children and Youth Mental Health Background The Ontario Coalition for Children and Youth Mental Health unites education, menta
Campaign launched to get students at least one hour of physical activity a day
TORONTO – A coalition of more than 60 organizations on Monday launched a nation-wide campaign to get schools to allocate at least an hour each day as physical activity time for students.
Allerject Educational Materials For All Ontario School and Public Health Units
Did you know… Allerject? Anaphylaxis Canada, in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry of Education, have updated their Anaphylaxis Support Kits with packages containing resources to inform and educate our educators on the Allerject. Click here for the announcement at Anaphylaxis Canada.
Active Healthy Kids Canada releases 2013 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth
When we were kids, 58 per cent of us walked to school while only 28 per cent of today’s children do. In fact, 62 per cent of Canadian youth aged 5 to 17 use only inactive modes of transportation to get to and from school.
School boards address student inactivity
Only 5 % of Canadian school children are meeting the national physical activity standards. Dr.
SickKids Healthy and Happy: Child and Youth Mental Health
With about 1.2 million children and youth in Canada affected by mental illness each year, the needs for support and services for young people and their families is growing. Through the 2013 Healthy and Happy campaign, we hope to educate Canadians about the issues surrounding childhood and youth ment
Canadian School Boards Association is proud to have participated in the Senate Committee on Human Rights report on Cyberbullying, released in Ottawa this past December. : Canadian School Boards Association
MONTREAL, January 8, 2012 – The harm caused by cyberbullying is known all too well by Canadians.
