Educators

• Concussion guide for teachers
• Return to school strategy
• Rowan’s Law Day toolkit for schools 

• Bringing healthy eating to the classroom
• Brightbites - Zesty lessons
• Sip Smart!™ Ontario - Classroom Education Program
• Ophea teaching tools

• A guide to school gardens
• Brightbites
• Dietitians of Canada
• Health Canada Food and Nutrition
• The Kindergarten Program 2016
• UnlockFood.ca

Healthy fundraising and special events

• Healthy fundraising ideas
• Parents Reaching Out grants

Healthy snack or breakfast programs

• Durham Child Nutrition Project
• Ontario Student Nutrition Program
• Funding opportunities supporting Ontario healthy schools and communities

Understanding P/PM 150:

• English
• Fact sheet

Trans Fat Standards Regulation

• Trans Fat Standards Regulation
• Trans Fat Standards Regulation question and answers

• Substance Use and Mental Health Curriculum (Grades 6, 7 and 8)
• Mental health messages that can be used in elementary school
• Mental health messages that can be used in secondary school
• Free stress strategies for educators and parents
• Mental health services in Durham Region

Helpful links

• Everyday Mental Health Classroom Resource
• Elementary School Toolkit: Promoting Connectedness
• Positive Mental Health Toolkit

• Creating and sustaining mentally healthy classrooms
• Recognizing and responding to anxiety in the classroom
• Recognizing and responding to mood problems in the classroom

The Psychology Foundation of Canada stress resources

• American Dental Association activities and lesson plans
• Oral health education resources for teachers and educators

• Healthy lunches and snacks for school
• Canada's Food Guide
• Sugary drinks
• Sugary drink sense
• Oral health
• Dental Hygiene Canada - fun stuff
• Oral health activities and resources
• Teaching resources
• The Ontario Curriculum: Elementary (Health and Physical Education)

Curriculum support

• How can my school promote active school travel?
• Ideas to have physical activity in the curriculum (math, arts, etc.)
• Move Play Learn
• Ontario Active School Travel website
• School physical activity assessment form

Helpful links

• Ontario Physical Education Safety Guidelines
• Active and Safe Routes to School website
• Physical and Health Education Canada website
• Play sport, a website to help teach kids games and sports through play
• Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth (5-17 years): An Integration of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep
• The Brain + Body Equation, The 2018 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth
• Daily Physical Activity
• OPHEA Daily Physical Activity resources

• Ontario Road Safety website
• National Teen Driver Safety Week
• Ontario.ca/distracteddriving
• Ontario.ca/toohightodrive
• Ontario.ca/cannabis
• Durham.ca/visionzero
• Durham.ca/thinkanddrive

• Substance use and mental health curriculum resource (Grades 6, 7 and 8)
• Weed out the Myths: Resource for students in grades 6-12 
• Cannabis Educational Kits: Q&A activities for students in grades 6-12*
• Cannabis Kahoot! Grades 6-8: Online interactive activity using the Kahoot! platform*
• Cannabis Kahoot! Grades 9-12: Online interactive activity using the Kahoot! platform*

*Resources available through your public health nurse.

• Student workbook: English | French
• Teacher companion guide: English | French

• Cannabis use among Durham Region students, grades 9-12
• Standards for School-Based Youth Substance Use Prevention
• Ministry of Education: Cannabis information & resources for educators
• Canadian Centre on Substance Use & Addiction (CCSA): Talking pot with youth: A cannabis communication guide for youth allies
• Canadian students for sensible drug policy: Sensible cannabis education: A toolkit for educating youth
• Drug Free Kids Canada: The cannabis talk kit: Know how to talk to your teen
• Cannabis: What parents/guardians and caregivers need to know
• Kids Help Phone: Cannabis: Important things to know
• Health Canada: Cannabis in Canada: Get the facts
• Government of Ontario: Cannabis
• Canada’s Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (LRCUG)
• The Blunt Truth: Useful tips about safer ways to use cannabis (Youth LRCUG)
• The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Ontario Physical & Health Education Association (OPHEA): Teaching tools - Cannabis education resources
• Canadian Centre for Addiction and Substance Use
• Prescription opioids information sheets for educators,parents and youth: English | French

Curriculum support

Grade 2 Curriculum Support Sun Safety package*

Available in French and English and includes:

• a variety of activity pages
• posters (two sizes)
• class set of fact sheets for parents of grade 2 students (30 per package)

*Resources available through your public health nurse.

Sunsense Program

• SUNSENSE teaching guide, grade 1 to 3
• SUNSENSE teaching guide, grace 4 to 6

Other

• Be Sun Safe (Canadian Cancer Society)
• SunSmart

• Youth tobacco awareness posters
• Poster
• Educator guide
• School announcements

• Lungs are for life (K-12)
• Ophea ideas for action
• Quit4Life facilitators page
• Know What's In Your Mouth toolkit
  
• Consider the consequences of vaping
• Health Canada
• Government of Ontario, 2019
• iTHINK Critical Thinking and Media Literacy Manual
• Escape the Vape
• Talk About Series-The Lung Association
• Coming Fall 2019-Not an Experiment
• Health Canada Vaping and the Consequences
• Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
• Health Canada: Talking with your teen about vaping: a tip sheet for parents
• Canadian Paediatric Society- Caring for Kids: Talking to your teen about vaping