child-early years (Birth-age 6)

Kids Have Stress Too! Preschool, Kindergarten & Parent Program Professional Development Training

This program 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. This program contains practice and curriculum-based strategies to help young children learn how to manage stress.

The program features skill-based activities that:
- Help children gain a sense of control

With the pandemic’s unprecedented effects, including layoffs, relationship strain, competing caregiver demands, service losses and disruptions, and uncertainty about in-person learning, parents are more stressed out than ever before.

Without adequate support, high stress levels threaten to disrupt children’s socio-emotional development and long-term mental health, especially as worsening mental health and substance use fall along pre-existing lines of disadvantage in society.

This program from Strong Minds Strong Kids, Psychology Canada 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. This program contains practice and curriculum-based strategies to help young children learn how to manage stress.

• 1.5 hour recording on the fundamentals of stress management

This program from Strong Minds Strong Kids, Psychology Canada 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. This program contains practice and curriculum-based strategies to help young children learn how to manage stress.

• 1.5 hour recording on the fundamentals of stress management

The Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program has just released its 2019 results. On pp. 30-31 of the report, you will find the details related to serious and life-threatening impacts of cannabis on the Canadian paediatric population over this time period.

You asked and we listened! Training via Webinars with SickKids CCMH Learning Institute is now available!  

We are pleased to announce that we are now able to offer more of our workshops via on-line learning. This move is to help us to meet your needs of staying up-to-date on advancements and educational opportunities available for health and human service professionals in a cost effective and convenient way.

Our webinars are available for only $100, or in-class for only $125!