HOPE Wheel
This promising practice highlights the HOPE Wheel project. The project is designed to apply a cultural approach toward student, staff, and family needs and is based on the ancient wisdom of the medicine wheel.
Implementing Mental Health Literacy: Model, Scaffold, Coach
This promising practice highlights a district-wide pilot project to support British Columbia’s redesigned Physical and Health Education curriculum. Many teachers felt ill-equipped to properly teach the new Mental Health Literacy (MHL) due to lack of knowledge and evidence-based resources.
Cochrane Healing Arts Time (CHAT) Program
This promising practice highlights a program titled CHAT that encourages students to creatively explore their feelings through art. There are many educational benefits of using the healing arts to facilitate learning.
Peer Support Volunteers Program
This promising practice highlights how students in grades 8 - 11 are chosen by their peers to be peer support volunteers.Free Store Program
This promising practice highlights a Free Store program where a school has teamed up with several local partners to provide a safe and effective place for families in the community to access food, clothing, and hygiene products.Pod C.A.R.E – Character and Confidence, Attitudes, Relationships, and Empathy Program
This promising practice highlights the Pod C.A.R.E. Program - a mental health and wellbeing initiative that arose out of a need to build connections and trusting relationships with students.Kindergarten Outdoor Play in the Sun, Rain, and Snow!
This promising practice highlights a Kindergarten outdoor play program aimed to transform the program from highly-structured, teacher-directed, indoor activities to student-led play in the outdoor environment.Ventures Program
This promising practice highlights the Ventures Program at an alternative high school located in British Columbia.
Resilience Harvard University Center on the Developing Child
Reducing the effects of significant adversity on children’s healthy development is essential to the progress and prosperity of any society. Science tells us that some children develop resilience, or the ability to overcome serious hardship, while others do not.