The resources found in this section are available for reference and intended to enhance day-to-day practices, in the classroom, within the school, and with your students and colleagues as a whole.
School Mental Health Ontario (SMHO)
- Class Conversation Starters: A resource that aims to spark conversations and help students to be critical and creative thinkers regarding their wellbeing and mental health.
- Easy and Fun Mental Health Activities for Home: A series of 12 easy and fun activities for parents and their families that adopt key strategies to facilitate the development of social-emotional learning skills.
- Everyday Mental Health Practices: A resource for elementary students that proposes easy-to-implement, evidence-informed mental health practices.
- Everyday Mental Health Practices: a classroom resource: A resource that presents easy-to-implement mental health practices in the classroom:
- Faith and Wellness: A Daily Mental Health Resource: A resource that explains teaching strategies that promote mental health, such as practices to establish healthy relationships and stress management and coping practices.
- Mental Health Leadership Strategies: Resources for school and system leaders that propose school-based mental health leadership strategies.
- MH LIT Online Course: Information on the MH LIT – Mental Health in Action online course for educators who wish to learn more on student social-emotional learning.
- Reaching Out: A resource to remind students how to find and reach out for help when needed.
- Resources for students – Understanding Social-Emotional Learning: Resources to help students understand how social-emotional learning skills are useful in their daily lives. (Developed in collaboration with School Mental Health Ontario’s Student Reference Group, ThriveSMH)
- Self-Care 101: A resource that reminds students about the importance of self-care.
- Social-Emotional Learning: A series of resources that help educators explore in greater depth the links between social-emotional learning and mental health.
- Social-Emotional Learning Posters: Posters that present visualization stress-coping strategies.
Ophea
- Exploring Social-Emotional Learning Skills in Health and Physical Education: A webinar that establishes links between the HPE curriculum and social-emotional learning.
- Virtual Field Trips: Stress Management and Coping: A resource to support educators and students across Ontario with the development of stress management and healthy coping skills.