Healthy School Communities
The Prince Edward Island Home and School Federation has developed a website called Help My Child for parents and students regarding cyber bullying, substance abuse, mental health, physical health and many other topics. Help My Child features contact...
The Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health (JCSH) supports comprehensive school health initiatives across Canada. Its members include health and education representatives responsible for school health from each province and territory (except...
School breakfast and snack programs encourage healthy eating, ensure students come to class prepared to learn, and support positive nutrition habits which help improve academic achievement.
Each week, over 600 school staff and community volunteers...
SHAPES is a student health behaviour survey which asks all students in grades 5-12 about their lifestyle behaviours related to healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, as well as mental fitness.
SHAPES is conducted every two...
School nutrition policies play an important role in creating healthy school environments and in supporting healthy lifestyles of children and youth; both of which support student success and academic achievement.
School boards have school nutrition...
Triple P is a parenting program used across Canada and around the world. Triple P provides tools and strategies you can use, but it doesn’t tell you how to parent. It’s more like a toolbox of ideas. You choose the tools and strategies you need and you...
Health Promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.
Health Promotion is strongly linked to the global challenge of non-communicable disease, also known as chronic disease. It situates health as a...