Recognizing the mental, physical, emotional, and academic impacts of the pandemic on school communities, particularly children and youth.
COVID 19
General Information
- For more information, visit Canada.ca/covid-vaccine and your provincial or territorial website for information based on where you live.
- Our COVID-19 Awareness Tool Kit is also available online and provides links to more information resources about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines.
- We also have COVID-19 resource products in languages beyond English and French. These multilingual resources are available on our COVID-19 Awareness resource pages.
Posters
COVID-19 Vaccines For Children
- Latest information on COVID-19 vaccines for children and youth
- Making vaccination decisions for children 5 to 11 years of age
- Have a positive vaccination experience
- Impact of School Closures on Learning, Child and Family Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Key Principles and Strategies for K-12 Mental Health Promotion in Schools
Development and Approval of the COVID-19 Vaccines
- Vaccine development and approval in Canada (available in 17 languages)
Substance Use
Preventing substance use harms in school-aged children and youth from a positive youth development perspective using the Comprehensive School Health Framework.
Tools & Toolkits
Documents & Reports
Newsletters
External Resource Links
- CPHA Pot & Driving Campaign (2018)
- Towards the Legalization, Regulation and Restriction of Access to Marijuana: Discussion Paper (2016)
- CSTADS Summary of Results Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey 2014-15
- CCSA – A Drug Prevention Strategy for Canada’s Youth (2007)
- CCSA – Building on Our Strengths: Canadian Standards for School-Based Youth Substance Abuse Prevention (version 2.0) (2010)
- CCSA – The Canadian Standards for Youth Substance Abuse Prevention: An Overview (2014)
- Cross Canada Report on Student Alcohol and Drug Use, Technical Report (2011)
- When Eating Disorders and Substance Abuse Problems Collide, developed in partnership with the National Eating Disorders Information Centre
- When Mental Health and Youth Substance Abuse Problems Collide, developed in partnership with the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
From The Students Commission of Canada
Positive Mental Health
Supporting student and staff mental well-being and the essential role of the school community to foster social-emotional learning, resiliency, relationships, and protective factors.
Tools & Toolkits
External Resource Links
Documents & Reports
- Schools as a Setting for Positive Mental Health: Better Practices and Perspectives, 2nd Edition (2013)
- Schools as a Setting for Positive Mental Health: Better Practices and Perspectives,1st Edition (2010)
- Making the Grade: Positive Mental Health Practices in Schools (2011)
- Positive Psychology in Schools April 2009
- Positive Psychology in Schools March 2009
- Emotional Health Among Canadian Youth (PDF)
- Preventing Youth Suicide: A Guide for Practitioners (BC Ministry of Child and Family Development, 2013)
- Key Principles and Strategies for K-12 Mental Health Promotion in Schools
- Concussions and their Association with Mental Health in Canadian Adolescents
- Mental Health and Problematic Social Media Use in Canadian Adolescents
- Trends in Health Inequalities in Canadian Adolescents from 2002 to 2018
- Social Media Use, Connections, and Relationships in Canadian Adolescents
School Food Environment
Advancing the alignment of healthy eating school food policies and priorities to student well-being, health, and learning through the health promoting schools approach.
Tools & Toolkits
External Resource Links
Documents & Reports
- Towards a Healthier Canada – 2013 Progress Report on Advancing the Federal / Provincial / Territorial Framework on Healthy Weights
- Canadian Priorities for Addressing Obesity as a Cancer and Chronic Disease Risk Factor (Canadian Partnership Against Cancer)
- Towards a Healthier Canada – 2013 Progress Report on Advancing the Federal / Provincial / Territorial Framework on Healthy Weights
- Our Health Our Future – A National Dialogue on Healthy Weights Dialogue Report
- Reducing the Sodium Intake of Canadians
- Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide
- Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide First Nations, Inuit, and Métis
- Canada’s Food Guide Resources for Educators and Communicators
Other Areas
We have many areas of resources that do not fall into the categories above. We’ve sorted them by category below.
Sexual Health Education
- SIECCAN Release (2018)
- Draft Core Principles of Sexual Health Education (2018)
- Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education (2008)
- Sexual Health Education in the Schools: Questions and Answers (3rd Ed.) (2010)
- CDC: Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Related Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9-12 – United States and Selected Sites, 2015
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), Sexual Health Facts and Information for the public (PHAC)
Concussion Resources
Forest & Nature School Canada
Canadian Association of Principals (CAP) Journal Articles
Stories From The Field
Canadian Journal of Public Health
Canadian Journal of Public Health
In collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations and other international organizations, the Joint Consortium for School Health co-authored a peer-reviewed article entitled Schools for Health, Education and Development: A Call for Action published in the November 2008 issue of Health Promotion International. The article is based on results of an international review of school health evidence conducted during the 2007 WHO Technical meeting, co-hosted by the JCSH in Vancouver, BC.
Injury Related Resources
- Injury Among Young Canadians: A National Study of Contextual Determinants
- Injury and Physical Trauma Among Canadian Youth (PDF)
- Bullying and Fighting Among Canadian Youth (PDF)
- Injury Prevention Action Guide
- Preventing Youth Suicide: A Guide for Practitioners (BC Ministry of Child and Family Development, 2013)
General Topics
- 100 Years of Loss: The Residential School System in Canada
- Active at School:Connecting the Dots (November 2014)
- Building bridges to collaborative success: An evidence-based inter-agency primer for health promotion (2016)
- CPHA Discussion Paper- Global Change and Public Health: Addressing the Ecological Determinants of Health (May 2015)
- Declaration on Prevention and Promotion from Canada’s Ministers of Health and Health Promotion/ Healthy Living
- ON Foundations for a Healthy School
- Our Health Our Future — A National Dialogue on Healthy Weights Dialogue Report
- Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy
- Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
- Healthy Living and Healthy Weight Among Canadian Youth (PDF)
- Health-Risk Behaviours and Academic Achievement (PDF)
- HBSC 2005/06 study: ” Healthy Settings for Young People in Canada”
- HBSC International Report
- Teaching resources based on microdata from the HBSC 1997-8 study
- Physical Activity Action Guide
- School Connectedness Action Guide
- Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines – the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology worked in partnership to develop Canada’s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living.
- Healthy Built Environment Linkages: A Toolkit for Design, Planning, & Health. Developed by the PHSA Population and Public Health team in partnership with the Healthy Built Environment Alliance
CAP Journal on School Health
- Click here to download a copy of the Summer 2013 Canadian Association of Principals Journal on Comprehensive School Health. Articles featured: “The JCSH Healthy School Planner: Learning how to assess the health of your school”, “Comprehensive School Health in six priority areas: The work of an Education and Health partnership” and “National Perspectives on Comprehensive School Health: What’s the Value of Your School? ”
- Click here to download a copy of the Spring 2009 Canadian Association of Principals’ Special Edition Journal on Comprehensive School Health. The journal, featuring articles from some of Canada’s leading researchers in school health, is the result of a partnership between the Joint Consortium for School Health and the Canadian Association of Principals.