Mental Health for Youth – Resources

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Lesson plans

Our ready-to-use lesson plans offer engaging activities to help you connect with youth on important topics.

Mental health basics (grades 5 and 6)
  • Defining what is mental health, how to care for it, and who to go to when you need help
  • Discussing the stigma around mental health
  • Identifying people, resources, and services in the school and the community
Self-harm prevention (grades 7 and 8)
  • Identifying signs of self-harming behaviours in oneself and others
  • Understanding what mental health and mental illness mean
  • Learning coping strategies when support is needed
  • Understanding what self-harm means and clarifying misconceptions
  • Discussing the stigma around mental health, with a focus on self-harm and how to help counter stigma
Suicide prevention (grades 9 and 10)
  • Identifying warning signs and symptoms that could be related to mental-health concerns
  • Identifying factors that enhance mental health and emotional and spiritual well-being
  • Learning about available supports to youth
Suicide prevention (grades 11 and 12)
  • Describing the stigmatization of mental illness and myths about people living with mental illness
  • Identifying strategies to reduce stigma around mental illness, and how to support those living with mental illness
  • Describing warning signs for suicide
  • Identifying sources of support for those who may be contemplating suicide

To obtain one or more of these lesson plans, please email CYCP_CPCJ@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

School presentations

To obtain one or more of these files, please email CYCP_CPCJ@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

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