Canadian Websites and Resources

ABC's of Mental Health (Hincks-Dellcrest Centre)
This resource provides teachers and other education professionals with information formatted to be accessible, easy-to-use, and helpful for educators who wish to recognize and identify behavior that causes them concern. It provides prevention and early intervention strategies to promote learning and mental health, and tips on finding help for children with mental health problems.
www.brocku.ca/teacherresource/ABC/index.php

Anxiety BC- Parenting Pathways Program
Anxiety BC provides parents with information on strategies for helping their children cope with anxiety and worries. There are helpful videos with experts in childhood anxieties discussing anxiety in children and youth as well as resources for parents to read or print.
www.anxietybc.com/parent

Dr. Michael Cheng - Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychiatrist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Under the Articles section of his practice website, Dr. Cheng has provided downloadable tools such as mood scales and a self-regulation program, and handouts on a range of mental health topics such as anxiety disorders, depression, self-injury, and school refusal.
www.drcheng.ca

Offord Centre for Child Studies - Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development
Provides a series of information pamphlets especially for parents on mental health problems such as anxiety disorders in children which can be downloaded and printed.
www.knowledge.offordcentre.com

E-Mental Health.ca Mental Health Library
The mental health library provides articles with information about a variety of mental health topics and conditions including children's anxiety (e.g., fears and anxieties, social anxiety, selective mutism).
www.ementalhealth.ca/site/ottawa/index.php?m=10

Simon Fraser University- Children's Health Policy Centre
An interdisciplinary research group in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University has prepared, at the request of government, reviews and syntheses of the best available research evidence on the prevention and treatment of children's mental disorders, including anxiety disorders, which can be downloaded.
www.childhealthpolicy.sfu.ca/research_reports_08/index.html

While You Were Away (for Military Families)
The "While You Were Away" series of books and workshops are provided by Egerton Graham Consulting to support families experiencing periods of prolonged absence or deployment. Books and journals, as well as professional training and/or workshops, are available for educators, support workers such as school liaison officers, deployment specialist, social workers, families and anyone involved in supporting military families. The website provides helpful tips for military families and information on where to obtain the books.
www.whileyouwereaway.org