Mental and Holistic Health

Mental and Holistic Health Projects

Cover of 'The Transition Years: Mental Health for Youth Ages 12-15' Facilitator Guide, featuring cartoon characters and a bright green background.

The Transition Years, Mental Health for Youth Ages 12-15

The shows a facilitator guide for the Transition Years: Mental Health for Youth Ages 15-19. It includes an acknowledgment section highlighting contributors and experts involved, such as the Boys and Girls Club of Canada and YouthRex. The guide outlines the purpose, which is to help youth aged 15-19 manage their mental health and transition to adulthood, covering topics like friendships, relationships, and mental health. It also contains instructions and a legend for facilitating workshops, emphasizing the goal of engaging youth and supporting their questions and needs during the sessions.

Collage of diverse youth engaged in conversation and expression, featuring individuals showing various emotions, highlighting themes of communication and interaction in a community setting.

SIFT for Safer Spaces, Mental Health and Authentic Connections!

SIFT is creating safer spaces across Canada where youth and adults closest to them explore, experience, and build capacity towards: belonging, self-care, wellbeing, and positive social identities. We’re taking SIFT on the road to classrooms, community centres, and youth serving organizations. We have grant funding to bring safer space workshops for youth and/or training sessions for adults to you.

Artistic collage featuring portraits of diverse individuals, showcasing different expressions and styles, with speech bubbles emphasizing communication and dialogue

Safer Spaces and Social Identity Formation

Our model describes creating positive safer spaces that respect differences, on-line and off-line. The program supports young people to explore diversity and define positive social identities for themselves, against many influences.

Banner for the webinar series 'Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Supporting Sexual Education in BC,' designed for high school teachers and school staff, featuring logos for Healthy BC Schools and the Sexual Health Centre.

Beyond the Birds and the Bees

Beyond the Birds and the Bees is a webinar series developped by the Students Commission of Canada in partnership with Healthy School BC. It was designed to support educators in enriching their understanding of British Columbia’s updated Physical and Health Education Curriculum for secondary students and to provide teaching tools to assist with the delivery of what can be sensitive and sometimes uncomfortable content to teach.