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Strong Minds Strong Kids: Psychology Canada - Kids Have Stress Too!®/Stress Lessons®

We have partnered with Strong Minds Strong Kids to provide evidence-based programs and resources that contribute to mental health promotion in schools. School Health Public Health Nurses are available to work with schools in Simcoe Muskoka to incorporate these programs and resources into their plan for addressing student health and well-being. Strategies can include orientation and consultation with school staff, support to engage students in leadership opportunities using evidence-based toolbox activities, hosting a “Chill Fair” or parent engagement night, delivering parent education sessions, and more.

Strong Minds Strong Kids also offers a wide variety of tools and resources aimed at students, parents, caregivers, and educators to provide youth with key coping skills needed for a solid foundation for mental health. 
Kids Have Stress Too!® and Stress Lessons® help students to discover what stress is and ways to manage stress in a fun and engaging way. Combined with other school-wide and classroom strategies, these programs can help to promote positive mental health and well-being.

The evidence-based lesson plans, Kids Have Stress Too! ® and Stress Lessons ® can be integrated into classrooms from kindergarten up to Grade 12, with curriculum content from the Ontario Health & Physical Education Curriculum in Strand A: Social-Emotional Learning Skills and Strand D: Healthy Living as it relates to Mental Health Literacy. Students develop effective ways of coping with and dealing with stress. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity (EDI) supplementary modules are offered with each of the Strong Mind Strong Kids Program Guidebooks to help implement our stress management programs from an EDI lens.

Kids Have Stress Too! ® for Preschool to Grade 6:

  • Kids Have Stress Too! ® Preschool, Kindergarten: Provides a comprehensive introduction to key aspects of early childhood and brain development, as well as the crucial role caregivers and educators play in helping children learn effective stress-management strategies. Designed to meet the needs of early childhood educators and kindergarten teachers.
  • Kids Have Stress Too! ® Tools and Activities for Grades 1 to 3: Provides educators with strategies to help create an emotionally-healthy environment in their classroom by promoting self-regulation and effective stress-management skills and strategies.
  • Kids Have Stress Too! ® for Grades 4 to 6: Provides educators with practical, developmentally appropriate, engaging activities for students aged 9 to 12. This is a resource designed to help you teach children how to manage stress today, and for the rest of their lives.

Stress Lessons® for Grade 7 to Grade 12:

  • Stress Lessons® From Stress Out to Chilled Out for Grades 7 to 9: Provides educators with a student-centred approach to teach stress-management strategies and skills and build emotional resiliency in their students and themselves.
  • Stress Lessons®: Tools for Resilience for Grades 9 to 12: Provides educators with engaging strategies and tools to help teens develop resilience and positive coping skills.

School Health Public Health Nurses can support educators build their capacity to deliver this mental health curriculum that, in turn, will support students to learn to manage stress and become more resilient.

For more detailed information, including Ontario-based curriculum connections, learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities, visit the links below from Strong Minds Strong Kids: Psychology Canada:
Kids Have Stress Too!® Curriculum Connections
Stress Lessons® Curriculum Connections

To get started, it is recommended that schools:

  • Set time aside at a staff meeting to provide an overview of the program.
  • Identify staff interested in delivering the lessons within their classroom. 

The classroom lessons, videos, and activities are all accessible from the Strong Minds Strong Kids - Psychology Canada website for a nominal fee. Formal training is also available. 

School Health Public Health Nurses work with schools to support their delivery of the Kids Have Stress Too ® and Stress Lessons ® programs. We offer:

  • An introductory presentation for educators to raise awareness about Strong Minds Strong Kids programs and resources, including Kids Have Stress Too! ® and Stress Lessons ®, and share how these can be incorporated into your school action plan for mental health and well-being.
  • Consultation and co-facilitation with educators, to help increase their capacity to deliver these programs within their classroom.
  • Support to extend classroom learning through whole school mental health and well-being initiatives and youth engagement activities (e.g., organizing and running a “Chill Fair” for students and their families).
  • Parent and caregiver presentations, delivered by public health nurses, to communicate about the concepts students are learning in the classroom and help families practice stress management techniques and strategies at home.  

To book a staff meeting presentation, or to request support with planning and implementing Kids Have Stress Too! ® and/or Stress Lessons ® at your school, contact your School Health public health nurse.

Strong Minds Strong Kids offers parent and caregiver programs and resources, including parent guides, tip sheets, fact sheets, brochures, podcasts and videos to help parents and children understand and handle stress. These can be shared with parents and families to help complement school and/or classroom-based activities and education.

School Health Public Health Nurses are also available to provide parent and caregiver presentations to raise awareness about the concepts students are learning in the classroom and help families practice stress management techniques and strategies at home.

To book a presentation, or to request support with planning and implementing Kids Have Stress Too! ® and/or Stress Lessons ® at your school, contact your School Health Public Health Nurse or email [email protected].
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