Our partners at the BC Children’s Health Promotion and Schools team and Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre offer a variety of free services, supports and resources specifically for school communities including teachers, counsellors, administrators, district staff, community partners and public health professionals.
The Schools team’s work involves:
- Supporting with school mental health promotion planning and implementation
- Helping to support school and system wide changes to promote mental health and well-being
- Helping school professionals move to action based on available student well-being data
- Providing evidence based mental health promotion and social emotional learning resources, information and tools to school professionals across BC
- Connecting school communities with other mental health and wellness programs and initiatives in BC
- Sharing resources and support for parents and caregivers via the Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre
- Offering support for school counsellors and psychologists who are providing mental health and substance use care to students through the Compass Mental Health Program
Visit the School Professionals page on the Kelty Website for more information.
Resources for School Professionals
Contact the Schools team by email for any questions at schoolmentalhealth@cw.bc.ca.
| Stop Wondering, Start Knowing: A Mental Health Video Resource for Schools is a resource for educators to use in their classrooms.
The “Stop Wondering, Start Knowing” resource was created in 2014 and updated in 2018. It was originally created in response to requests for youth speakers on mental health topics in schools. Over the last ten years, our Kelty Health Promotion and Schools Team has evolved our approach to stay in line with best available evidence. Research shows that there are many components to supporting school mental health. Taking a holistic, whole school community approach that considers policies, environment and social factors in addition to mental health literacy, social emotional learning, staff and student well-being needs can make a big impact. In line with this approach, the school video resource will be discontinued on July 31, 2025 and in its place, we encourage school staff to access resources and information on Mental Health Literacy Resources and Curriculum for the Classroom | Kelty Mental Health and to learn more about Our Approach to Supporting Schools | Kelty Mental Health Please feel free to contact us at schoolmentalhealth@cw.bc.ca with any questions, or for support with choosing mental health promotion programs.
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The curriculum guide provides a complete set of educational tools to increase understanding of mental health and mental disorders among both students and teachers.
Click here for a PDF of the guide.
There is also a self guided, online training for Bringing Mental Health to Schools: A Curriculum Resource for Grades 7 – 12 based on the Guide.
Teach Mental Health is a free, online modular resource to help teacher candidates and current teachers to develop and expand their mental health literacy. Seven fully online modules provide a self-guided course (start and stop anytime) with many resources to support educators in school contexts.
Helping Schools includes curriculum resources and lesson plans focused on drug literacy with the goal of encouraging students to both express and think critically about their current drug- and gambling-related beliefs, attitudes and behaviours.