School Mental Health ASSIST

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Promoting mentally healthy schools is a key piece of the healthy school community puzzle—and it just so happens that it’s also School Mental Health ASSIST’s area of expertise! Let them assist you with resources such as tip sheets on personal resiliency and supporting staff mental health and well-being. You can even zero in on the information you need quickly by using the audience, topic or type filters.

Action on Smoking and Health’s School Board Resource Hub

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Want a one-stop-shop for all the resources you may need when it comes to tobacco prevention and policies? Well, here it is! Included among the resources are a sample school smoking policy, fact sheets about everything from hookah smoking to e-cigarettes and even a handy list of the tobacco policies in school jurisdictions throughout the province.

Physical Activity for Decision-Makers

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Jump, jump, jump, jump around! If you’re looking for ways to integrate physical activity into your workplace, you’re about to jump for joy. This at-a-glance fact sheet provides reasons why we should all support physical activity, as well as decisions that leaders can make to incorporate it in workplace and school policies.

Financial Education and Retirement Security

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Stretch those financial fitness muscles! This website contains useful and practical information to engage your workplace in financial wellness. Must-see highlights include the communication toolkit—containing Canadian-based month-by-month tips in various formats for easy distribution—and learning sources that provide helpful articles and guidebooks.

ParticipACTION

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Visitez la trousse d'outils ParticipACTION pour du matériel de communication pour votre organization.

Santé mentale en milieu de travail

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La Commission de la santé mentale du Canada (CSMC) fournit des outils, de l'information et le soutien nécessaires pour aider les employeurs à créer et à maintenir des milieux de travail sains sur le plan psychologique.

ASEBP Self-Directed Wellness Guide Committee Roles & Terms of Reference

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You’re creating a workplace wellness program—hooray! Start things off on the right foot by establishing terms of reference and committee role descriptions. This resource provides samples of both to help guide you!

ASEBP Self-Directed Wellness Guide Setting SMARTY Goals for Achieving a Wellness Culture

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There are no “smarty pants” required for setting SMARTY goals—only a team with a united wellness goal in mind. Use this sheet to plan, track and, ultimately, achieve your goals.

Fitness: Walking for Wellness

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Lace up your walking shoes and start pounding the pavement! You can maintain your health by fitting in at least 10 minutes of brisk walking each day. Check out this article for tips on making a walking program part of your and your colleagues’ lives, and then walk your way to wellness.

Healthy School Policy Toolkit

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If you’re looking to create, improve or maintain your healthy school community, this toolkit’s for you! It contains multiple resources—which can be used alone or in combination—to guide you in the development of best practice policies and procedures supporting a healthy school community.

Stratégies sur le Stress

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Vous sentez-vous stressé? Vous n'êtes pas seul! Trouvez des moyens pratiques pour gérer votre stress grâce à des stratégies disponibles dans cet outil en ligne. L’outil vous guidera à travers une série de questions et une fois complété, vous aurez accès à un plan personnalisé de gestion du stress.

Stress Strategies

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Is stress weighing you down? You’re not alone! Find ways to lighten your load with practical, stress-busting strategies available through this online tool. You’ll be guided through a set of questions and then provided with a snazzy stress management plan of your very own.

ASEBP Self-Directed Wellness Guide Calendar of Events

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Plan a year of workplace wellness initiatives with this colourful ASEBP template! Add your own splash of colour by jotting down notes about each month’s event so you can see, at-a-glance, what your school year looks like. Our guess is that it looks pretty healthy and fun-filled, but that’s just us.

Increasing Physical Activity and Decreasing Sedentary Behaviour in the Workplace (Series)

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Make a move towards increasing physical activity and take a stand for decreasing sedentary behaviour in the workplace. Learn about choosing, developing, implementing and maintaining effective workplace physical activity and sedentary behaviour interventions in just one short series.

Guarding Minds @ Work: A Workplace Guide to Psychological Health and Safety

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Use this guide to protect and promote psychological health and safety in the workplace by assessing and addressing the 13 psychosocial factors known to have a significant impact on organizational health, the health of individual employees and finances.

Steps for Building Healthy School Communities

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Similar to the Sandbox’s SCHOOL model, Alberta Health Services offers this six-step process for creating and fostering a healthy school community. If you’re looking for answers to your wellness initiative questions, be sure to check out this website.

Communities ChooseWell: Online Toolkit

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Whether you’re new to the wellness game or a seasoned vet, you’ll be able to flex your wellness champion muscles with this toolkit from Communities ChooseWell. Find helpful tips and resources for whatever stage you’re at with your wellness initiative.

ASEBP Professional Learning Support

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Are you looking for ways to support your district's workplace wellness needs through professional learning opportunities? Contact ASEBP Health Promotion Services and connect with a workplace wellness liaison to discuss a strategy that best meets your needs. 

The Wellness Dividend: How Employers Can Improve Employee Health and Productivity

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Learn how investing in employees makes them invest in you. This evidence-based report shows how investing in employee wellness has a positive impact for all involved parties and methods for how to accomplish this.

Fédération du sport francophone de l’Alberta – Écoles en santé

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L’initiative Écoles en santé permet aux communautés scolaires d’insuffler le mieux-être dans la culture de leurs écoles. Le lien inclus plus d’informations sur le comité provincial des écoles en santé, des histoires de succès, des équipes de santé, et le site de Moodle, qui est un plate-forme de ressources en ligne.

ASEBP Health Profile Report

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Get to know your school district with a custom ASEBP Health Profile Report. This report provides information specific to your district on the prevalence of four common conditions: depression, diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Upon request from district leadership, they can be used to inform your district wellness priorities.
Note: The link provided is a sample. For a customized report, please contact ASEBP Health Promotion Services.

ASEBP Self-Directed Wellness Guide Brochure

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Let our Self-Directed Wellness Guide lead you on your journey to developing a wellness program. To request an orientation to this step-by-step resource and workbook, please contact ASEBP Health Promotion Services.

Eat Smart Meet Smart

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Aside from the opportunity to generate great ideas, meetings can also be a chance to eat great food. Learn how to ensure your meeting food is just as good as it is healthy and have participants be as alert, productive and engaged as possible.

Benefits of Active Transportation

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Get where you want to be—literally—and physically with active transportation! Check out the facts and learn the benefits of active transportation for you personally and in your community.

Go-To Educator Training - Alberta Mental Health Literacy Project

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Go-To Educator Training is a part of Alberta Health Services’ Mental Health Literacy Project which aims to increase understanding and decrease the stigma around mental health. At no charge, school jurisdictions across the province can participate in a day of training to learn about mental health, mental illness, stigma reduction, response strategies—among many other things. Essentially, by learning about people’s differences, you can learn to make a difference.

Championing Mall Walking Groups

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The first step towards better health can be achieved by—believe it or not—taking a few steps! The Edmonton West Primary Care Network (PCN) shares their experience of starting their mall walking group and all of the benefits, challenges and lessons learned along the way. Through Edmonton West PCN’s journey you’ll see that walking groups’ benefits aren’t only physical but mental as well.

UPnGO with ParticipACTION: Building Active Workplaces

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UPnGO with ParticipACTION aims to make physical activity in the workplace your autopilot. With the pilot phase in full swing and the goal of getting Canadians to sit less and move more on the horizon, ParticipACTION’s program isn’t just changing activity levels—it’s changing habits and culture as well. As the full, year-long program becomes available to Canadian companies in the coming months, be sure to get a head start and read on to learn more about UPnGO with ParticipACTION and the direction it’s going.

Editable Wellness Poster (Sandbox)

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Don’t reinvent the wheel! Use this editable poster to tell your friends and colleagues about a wellness initiative in your school or jurisdiction or to promote wellness or The Sandbox through an orientation or other package.

Local Action: Creating Health Promoting Schools

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Act local and see world-wide involvement thanks to this World Health Organization document. Use these worksheets to identify health issues in your school and community and the steps to take towards improvement, planning and implementing health initiatives.

Moving Ahead: Workplace Interventions to Reduce Physical Inactivity and Sedentary Behaviour

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This is big news you shouldn’t take a seat for. This publication from the Canadian Alliance of Sustainable Health Care provides employers with examples of organizational approaches and programs for how to effectively promote physical activity and reduce sedentary habits in the workplace.

Alberta Blue Cross: Workplace Wellness Online

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This site is an excellent starting point for Alberta employers of any size looking to take steps toward workplace wellness promotion. Check out their handy toolkits, tools and tips covering the full scope of workplace wellness.

Working Through It: A Leaders Guide (and accompanying videos)

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Working Through It is a resource for individuals as much as it is an education tool for management and employee leaders. Through videos and printable resources, these practical coping strategies can be used in a number of ways as a cost-effective and time-efficient means of supporting your workplace, colleagues and self.

Working Through It ™ - Video Series

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Working Through It helps you navigate through the world of uncertainty. Your “what ifs” and “how can Is” are addressed by real people who share their experiences of working through times of mental health pressures at work, off work and returning to work. Best of all, the short video clips answer specific questions so you can watch them all or choose the ones most relevant to you.

Healthy Work Environment Infographic

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PLACE Research Lab’s handy infographic breaks down the realities of today’s work environments so that we can work towards a healthy balance that supports employees.

Smoking Cessation in the Workplace: A Guide to Helping Your Employees Quit Smoking

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The Government of Canada gets to the point with the Why, Who and What of quitting smoking in the workplace with information and resources for both employers and employees.

Note: Also available in French.

Best Practice Guideline for Workplace Health & Safety During Pandemic Influenza

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How do you fight pandemic influenza head on? With a plan! Learn how to manage workplace health and safety standards, employer responsibilities, how to eliminate and control hazards and anything else you’ve thought of—and haven’t—when dealing with contagion.

Healthy School Planner

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The Joint Consortium for School Health’s questionnaires help wellness organizers determine where efforts need to be focused within the context of a school environment. You’ll get answers to questions like “how to” and “what’s next” when you assess your school, establish steps for moving forward and chart your progress on your journey to wellness.

Ever Active Staff Wellness: Walk the Talk

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Learn the ins and outs of wellness with your colleagues as you each reflect on your own health through the five dimensions of wellness. Learn and share strategies and practices to staying well in this “inside-out” approach to wellness.

Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health

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This has everything you need all in one place. With just one click you’ll find mental health resources, regional health data, the concepts and framework behind the notion of Comprehensive School Health and so much more.

Fit Directory.ca

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Bring fitness to your workplace with this searchable, online directory. With this tool you’ll be able to find a qualified fitness professional—that meets or exceeds provincial and national standards—to support your workplace wellness programs or activities. And as if that wasn’t enough, this website also offers a variety of articles about starting or maintaining healthy, active lifestyles.

UWalk

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UWALK is about taking (literal) steps towards improving your health. UWALK aims to help Albertans find their stride and support them moving forward on their path to wellness through walking. Use their tools and resources to help you and your colleagues get started and stay motivated—and moving—through any form of physical activity.

Physical Activity at Work

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Get working on your health at work! This collection of resources describes the health and productivity benefits of integrating physical activity in the workplace and ideas and steps for implementing changes.

Workplace Healthy Eating Challenge

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Challenge yourself and your colleagues to eat better with the Healthy Eating Challenge toolkit. This challenge is a great team-building activity, a fun and engaging way to promote healthy eating and a great means of introducing small, but significant, changes to your diet through its weekly challenge themes.

Healthy U Food Checker

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Check yourself before you wreck yourself—with unhealthy foods. Use the "food checker" to compare food items and get recommendations based off of Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide. This tool can be used to encourage staff awareness around food labels, portion sizes and making healthy food choices.

Not Myself Today

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You may not be yourself today, but you’re not alone. The Not Myself Today campaign helps organizations achieve a better understanding of one’s own mental health, reduction in mental health stigma and a safe, open and supportive work environment. Participating organizations receive support, tools and resources to educate and engage all employees around this very important issue.

Alberta Blue Cross Workplace Wellness Toolkit

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This toolkit is understanding, reassuring, motivating, helpful and by the sounds of its description, your new best friend. It identifies the steps towards initiating a workplace wellness initiative with detailed examples for each step along the way.

ASEBP Self-Directed Wellness Guide Mind Mapping

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Collect your thoughts so that you can branch out ideas. This mind mapping tool captures your braining storming activities for your wellness initiative and helps outline your plan of action.

Workplace Physical Activity. Got 10 minutes?

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Since you spend most of your week at work, why not make the best of it? From walking meetings to office activity buddies, ParticipACTION has tips for how to fit in sessions of physical activity in the workplace with as little as 10 minutes.

Healthy Lunches/Snacks For Work

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Learn how to pack a healthy lunch for work by “loving your leftovers” and making sandwiches fun by swapping just a few ingredients.

4STAR Food Environment

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For star—ters (see what I did there?), why wouldn’t you get in on a program that leads to healthier staff, reduced cost, improved organizational performance and let’s not forget, is easy! Designed to promote staff-led, healthy eating in the workplace, the 4STAR website provides employers with a toolkit to empower staff in their journey towards healthy eating.

Guide for Choosing School Health Resources

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With so many health resources, how do you decide which to pursue? Well the answer is, strangely enough, with yet another resource. This Alberta Heath Services guide will help you choose a school health and wellness resource by addressing four key questions through their pillars of comprehensive school health.

What’s the Hard Return on Employee Wellness Programs?

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Like an ice cream sundae, this article is filled with fun on every layer. From the benefits of employee wellness programs for both employees and the organization to their self-identified six essential pillars of a successful wellness program for all organizations regardless of size, this Harvard Business Review article is quite the treat!

The Ultimate Guide to Employee Wellness Programs

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Yes, this guide is as intense as it sounds! With countless body, diet, mind, environment, and contest tips at your disposal to either start or improve a workplace wellness program, you’ll want to do it all.

Let's Make Our Day Harder

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Learn how (literally) taking that extra mile may make your day harder but your life easier in the long run.

Idea Readiness Tool

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Get ready for a tool that helps wellness champions understand their school community's level of willingness for adopting new ideas, offers strategies for taking action and most of all, conveniently named.

23 and ½ hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

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Since the single best thing you can do for your health takes about nine minutes to explain, we’ll let the full 30 minutes of physical activity you should be doing daily slide for today. Just make sure to check out this Doctor/Professor’s video on how important and beneficial these 30 minutes actually are.

9 Ideas to Kick Start Staff Wellness

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Programs and practical tools that can be used in schools to implement staff wellness programs. These are effortless ideas with lasting effects.

Savour Healthy Eating

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“The bigger, the better” doesn’t apply to Homewood Health’s take on Nutrition Month. Their “100 meal journey” is about making small—but healthier—changes to every meal with the big goal of creating lasting results. This kit has essential information and guidelines to support healthier food choices and is great for promoting nutritional wellness in the workplace.

CDC's Writing Good Goals and SMART Objectives Tutorials

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Smart goals are good goals. Thanks to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's tool you can learn the criteria for writing a goal that’s concrete, achievable and most of all, SMART.

Healthy Eating Starts Here - Ressources éducative scolaires sur la nutrition publiées en français

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Ressources éducatives scolaires sur la nutrition.

Pour une alimentation sainet et savoureuse

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Mars est le Mois de la nutrition et Homewood Santé encourage chacun de vous à participer à des activités portant sur le thème de cette année : Le défi des 100 repas. Faites de petits changements, un repas à la fois. Cette campagne vise à vous fournir de l’information et des conseils afin de vous aider à améliorer la qualité de votre alimentation et à diminuer les quantités consommées. La trousse ci-jointe vous inspirera des idées pour faire de petits changements et des stratégies pour faire en sorte que ces changements durent.

Je ne me reconnais pas

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La campagne Je ne me reconnais pas aide les entreprises et les organismes à atteindre plusieurs buts dont avoir une meilleure compréhension de sa propre santé mentale, réduire la stigmatisation et favoriser des milieux de travail sûrs, ouverts et favorables. En participant à la campagne, les entreprises et les organismes reçoivent du soutien, des outils et des ressources pour informer et mobiliser tous leurs employés par rapport à cet important enjeu.

Renoncement au tabac en milieu de travail: Un guide pour aider vos employés à cesser de fumer

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Santé Canada offre un guide qui s'adresse aux employeurs et aux autres personnes qui favorisent la santé en milieu de travail. Il offre de la documentation pratique et précise les raisons pour lesquelles les milieux de travail devraient participer aux effort des employés et les aider à réduire leur consommation de tabac ou à cesser de fumer.

Centre d'information bilingue sure les services en français disponibles en Alberta

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Le site web vous permet de recherchez des services francophones offerts en Alberta, de créer votre profil, d'ajouter de nouveaux services, de partager vos services favoris et de participer aux discussions du forum (1-888-580-Allô).

Protégeons la santé mentale au travail

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Un ensemble exhaustif de ressources uniques et gratuites, conçues pour protéger et promouvoir la santé et la sécurité psychologique en milieu de travail.

L'activité physique à l'ouvrage

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Améliorez votre lieu de travail en incorporant l'activité physique à la journée de travail.

Le planificateur des écoles en santé

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Le Planificateur des écoles en santé (PES) est un outil gratuit que les écoles canadiennes peuvent utiliser pour évaluer la santé à l'école et élaborer un plan pour l'améliorer