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The Teacher App: A More Resilient Canada (BC) (ON) (QC) (NYC)
This app aims to help teachers take care of themselves and feel stronger when it comes to navigating mental health. This can be achieved through community and providing services to connect, heal, and learn.
Teachers of Tomorrow Project (AB) (BC)
This iniative proposes an upstream approach to addressing student well-being though the issue of teacher preparedness. The results of this work has been a prototype for a system of wellness education, modelled on the CSH framework and involving the development of key partnerships, addressing the social and physical environments of the faculty, implementing healthy school policies and teacher and learning strategies. Knowledge exchange can be found at cshhub.com.
Mental Health Awareness Training (Canada) (US) (FR) ($)
This 3 hour mental health awareness training is one of the first scientifically evaluated workplace mental health training programs to result in changes in leaders’ behaviours, increased employee resource-use, and lower disability claim duration over time.
It Takes A Village (AB)
The Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan created a wellness hub to provide personal and workplace wellness information. Topics include healthy workplaces, relationships, self-care, social connections, self-assessment and more.
This article highlights research that explores the role that mentoring and coaching practices play in helping educational professionals attune to the importance of maintaining their own well-being and fostering well-being among those they work with.
The Well Teacher ($)
The Well Teacher book provides teachers in the K-12 system with tips, tools, and information on how to improve personal well-being and address teacher wellness barriers. (This resource was given by the Ontario Teachers’ Federation to teachers who attended the 2022 OTF/Affiliate Symposium on mental health).
This website contains strategies for things such as balancing your personal and professional life, ensuring your personal wellness, and developing effective time management strategies.
The podcast features Positive Teacher Well-Being with Dana Fulwiler. The Podclass is an educational podcast developed by Ever Active Schools. The first series is a collaboration with the Werkland School of Education that looks at maximizing the health and well-being of students and teachers.
Heartcare Planning emerged as a key finding from the Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Emotional Labour in Educational Workers research study. Create a HEARTcare plan to figure out how you respond to occupational stress and distress, ways to identify crisis and trauma work, and investigate available interventions to restore or maintain your emotional and mental health.
Sign up to access free evidence based tools, apps and programs on mental health.
Bounceback (ON)
Free guided self-help life-skills program that participants work with to develop coping techniques so they can overcome challenges.
Reach For Resilience (US)
Burnout Toolkit includes strategies to prevent and combat burnout in the workplace.
Screening self-tests are tools that help you look at your mental health or wellness. These tests look for signs or symptoms that can show up in some mental illnesses. They can also help you look at patterns of feelings or patterns of substance use.
LEARN Mental Health (Canada)
This free, online modular resource for educators can be used as a self-guided course or in individual modules by those wishing to develop their mental health literacy.
New Teacher Induction Program (NTIP) (ON)
The Professional Induction Program For New Teachers (PIPNPE) (ON) (FR)
The second job-embedded step along a continuum of professional learning for new teachers, building on and complementing initial teacher education programs. It provides professional support to help new teachers develop the requiste skills and knowledge to be effective teachers in Ontario.
“If A Teacher Isn’t Struggling With Their Mental Health I Think That Would Be An Anomoly, I Think The Majority Are”
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