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.
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.