Health & Wellness in School
Child & Youth Well-Being Family & Caregiver Series
Well-being is a precondition for student achievement. Students need to be well to succeed. Currently, students face a wide range of mental health challenges, including stress, anxiety, and depression. This trend is alarming and requires our attention.
The Calgary Board of Education invites all parents and guardians to join us in a pre-recorded and live online series focusing on child and youth well-being. These sessions are hosted by Recovery Alberta Community Education Service (CES) Program in partnership with experts from the Calgary Community and will explore topics such as Peer Pressure, Healthy Relationships, Mental Health for Highly Sensitive Teens, and navigating Parent-Teen relationships.
Acting on feedback from participants who joined us during our live online sessions over the past two years, moving forward we invite all guardians and parents to listen to the pre-recorded or live sessions at their convenience.
These sessions will be free and provide information, resources, helplines, and services to support healthy child and youth development.
Live Sessions
Can we Talk: Healthy Relationships
November 20, 2024
1:00 to 3:00 PM
Diana Wark (She/Her), Parent Program Coordinator for Centre for Sexuality
Join us for an interactive workshop to learn how to navigate those sometimes awkward but essential conversations that foster well-being, healthy relationships and informed decision-making. We empower parents with knowledge, skills and confidence to engage in open, honest and supportive conversations about sexuality and sexual health with their children.
In this workshop, we will describe and explore healthy, unhealthy and abusive relationship patterns. We will learn about effective communication and practice discussing topics related to romantic/intimate relationships in ways that are grounded in your values.
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Building Resiliency in Today’s Youth
November 21, 2024
12:00 to 1:30 PM
Andrea Halwas Larsen, PhD, CT, REACE
Counselling Therapist, and
Associate Therapist and Education Coordinator at Juno House
Brought to you by specialists in Girls’ Mental Health | In our 1.5 hour workshop presentation, we will share steps and strategies from the Juno House Therapeutic Model® that will provide effective emotional coaching tools for today’s youth as they develop through adolescence and into young adulthood.
This workshop is designed to give caregivers the skills to become their child’s emotional coach.
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Mental Health for Highly Sensitive Teens; Unique Struggles for those Emotional Feelers
November 28, 2024
10:00 to 11:30 AM
Tracy Fields, MSW, RSW
Highly sensitive teens are often misunderstood by parents and teachers as they often have stronger emotional reactions.
In this presentation, learn why this happens, and the necessary tools required to help these teens manage their emotions so they don't become derailed.
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Pre-Recorded Sessions
Adolescent Brain Development and Navigating Parent-Teen Relationships
Erin Dawson Myers
48:31 seconds
In this session we will discuss the adolescent brain, how to support healthy brain development, promoting resilience, and navigating the ways that your relationship with your teen will evolve as they slowly but surely become little adults.
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Screen Time: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Dr. Caroline Buzanko
1:36:04 seconds
The effects of screen time on the developing brain. The behavioural outcomes of too much screen time and how and when technology can be beneficial.
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Understanding Autism & ADHD to Promote Long-Term Success
Dr. Caroline Buzanko
1:25:50 seconds
This session focuses on the complex nature of Autism and ADHD, as well as the associated strengths and challenges.
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Mental Health Literacy Series (Pre-Recorded)
Focused and Engaged: Finding Balance through Self-Regulation
Alberta Health Services
3 minutes
Self-regulation is our ability to respond to different situations and meet daily challenges. It involves matching our energy level, mood, emotions, and behaviours to what different situations call for.
Your role as your child’s caregiver is to be his or her ‘co-regulator’. This means helping your child recognize and respond appropriately to stressors that trigger dysregulation in his or her life.
Information Sheet
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Sleeping Your Way to Better Mental Health
Alberta Health Services
3 minutes
Sleep matters! For our bodies, for our brains and for our mental and emotional health. What if Kids Don’t Get Good Sleep? They may develop sleep deprivation which can have negative impacts on both physical and mental health.
Information Sheet
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Behavioural Challenges of School Aged Children
Alberta Health Services
3 minutes
Is your child’s behaviour socially inappropriate or disruptive? Does your child have difficulty getting along or have problems at home, school, or with friends? This information is intended to help parents to begin to understand their child’s needs and behaviours and suggest ways to help.
Information Sheet
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