Additional resources for parents and youth, schools, and researchers
Tobacco Use:
Support to quit smoking
First attempts are often unsuccessful. You know this already if you’ve tried to quit smoking. Find support to make your next attempt the one that sticks.
No Smoking Room
A safe place to help you live smoke-free. This site was created for girls, by girls.
Joe Chemo
Meet Joe Chemo, a camel who wishes he'd never smoked. This is the official site of Joe Chemo, where you can test your Tobacco IQ, get your Smoke-o-Scope, and more.
Alcohol and Drugs:
Xperiment.ca
An interactive web based resource focused on the realities of drug use.
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse has a legislated mandate to provide national leadership and evidence-informed analysis and advice to mobilize collaborative efforts to reduce alcohol- and other drug-related harm.
Mental Health:
Canadian Mental Health Association
As a nation-wide, voluntary organization, the Canadian Mental Health Association promotes the mental health of all and supports the resilience and recovery of people experiencing mental illness. The CMHA accomplishes this mission through advocacy, education, research and service.
Kids Help Phone
We're Canada's only toll-free, 24-hour, bilingual and anonymous phone counselling, web counselling and referral service for children and youth. Every day, professional counsellors provide support to young people across the country.
The service is completely anonymous and confidential - we don't trace calls, we don't have call display. You don't even have to tell us your name if you don't want to.
Bullying:
Prevnet
A national network of Canadian researchers, non-governmental organizations and governments committed to stop bullying provides resources for kids, teens, parents and educators.
Red Cross
A hub of resource and aid links for teens, parents and educators.
General:
Joint Consortium for School Health
The Joint Consortium for School Health was established by provincial, territorial and federal governments to facilitate and initiate cooperation across the health and education sectors. The focus is on providing information and support to member governments, building system capacity for promoting health through school-based and school-linked programs and being a catalyst for collaborative activities and actions.
The members of the Consortium interpret "health" in the broadest sense of the word, so a wide variety of health, social and developmental issues are addressed. Member governments pursue a number of approaches and priorities in school health promotion, so there is no one model or strategy that the Consortium promotes over any other.
Tobacco Use:
Health Canada-Tobacco
Canada has made more progress in tobacco control in recent years than have most other countries in the world. Find out what's going on in tobacco control in Canada, and who does what.
Canadian Lung Association
The Lung Association works at the national, provincial and community levels to improve and promote lung health. We focus on chronic lung disease like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, infectious diseases like tuberculosis, flu, and pneumonia, and breathing disorders like sleep apnea. We provide reliable and trusted information to both citizens and governments, and we advocate for improvements when lung disease patients are getting inadequate care.
Canadian Cancer Society
A national, community-based organization of volunteers whose mission is the eradication of cancer and the enhancement of the quality of life of people living with cancer.
Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada
Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada (PSC) is a national health organization, founded in 1985 as a registered charity. A unique organization of Canadian physicians who share one goal: the reduction of tobacco-caused illness through reduced smoking and reduced exposure to second-hand smoke.
Alcohol and Drugs:
RCMP Drugs and Alcohol Resources
A comprehensive list of school resources from handouts to presentations about drugs and alcohol generated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Mental Health:
JCSH Positive Mental Health Tool Kit
A Joint School Health Consortium resource for schools focussed on promoting sound mental health related perspectives and practices.
Bullying:
Prevnet
A national network of Canadian researchers, non-governmental organizations and governments committed to stop bullying provides resources for kids, teens, parents and educators.
Ontario Tobacco Research Unit
The Ontartio Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU) is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to foster and conduct research and monitor and evaluate programs and policies to eliminate tobacco-related health problems in Ontario.
The Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey (CSTADS) conducted by a consortium of researchers across Canada and coordinated centrally at the University of Waterloo. CSTADS is implemented with the cooperation, support and funding of Health Canada.
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Telephone: 519-888-4520