RESOURCES
Looking for support in building and maintaining healthy school communities at the district, school or classroom level?
You’ve come to the right place. Browse our collection of tools, learning opportunities and best practices from our partners and school communities across Canada. You can filter these by:
Advocacy Tools: Access tools that can be used to gain support for or recommend systemic approaches to school well-being.
Best Practices and Stories from the Field: Read stories and lessons from others working toward similar goals, and review research highlighting best practice. Have a story? Share it with us!
Learning Opportunities and Events: Access online learning opportunities, and platforms to support advancing school well-being, and learn about upcoming events.
Other Resources: Infographics, research, policy templates, and other supports for building and maintaining healthy school communities.
Ask Me Anything: Healthy School Series - Episode #1
During this video, you’ll get to know veteran Ophea Healthy Schools Certification teacher Andrea Haefele and get real answers about how schools just like yours are navigating the program!
Healthy Schools Certification: A Journey Across Canada
OPHEA’s Healthy Schools Certification (HS Certification) is a 6-step program that guides and celebrates schools for taking a Comprehensive School Health Approach. After years of running solely in Ontario, Ever Active Schools, DASH, PHE Canada and OPHEA took this program on the road (albeit a bumpy road) to engage schools across other provinces. Find out more about our successes, challenges and key learnings (there were plenty!) of coordinating a cross-Canada pilot of HS Certification.
The Program Trap
This blog post discusses a key challenge in schools: that mental health and wellbeing is too often approached as a ‘program’ to be implemented in the school setting rather than as a way of being, a cultural shift.
Collaborative Practice
In this blog post, Paul McArthur with McConnell explores why, despite our best efforts, we continue to struggle at developing and maintaining effective collaborative approaches to change.
Empathy & Wellbeing for Educators: Wasan Island Gathering Report
This report summarizes insights from a gathering where K-12 educators explored opportunities for change in the field of teacher and staff wellbeing.