MIND Your Health
A Strategic Initiative
Fort la Bosse School Division
Virden, Manitoba
For Rural Congress, March 2016
Beginning Steps
• 2012 Division Plan data collection re: supports to student Mental Health
• Committee struck representative of FLBSD staff
o On line survey
o Data collection from Counselors & Student Support Workers re: types of services required o Tell Them From Me – Grades 4 – 12
o Regional Health Authority Survey
Key Findings
• 80% staff were aware of school based supports • Teachers report that Students access Resource Teacher*(82%), Educational Assistants (80%), Classroom Teachers (68%), School Administrator (68%), School Counselor /Itinerant Student Support Workers * (64%)
• Most staff were aware that the Physical Education document contained outcomes that support Mental Health • Additional Canadian resources were less known
Key Findings
• Range of student concerns
• Professional/support staff needs for Mental Health support
• Community resources & contact information
• Few schools had personnel trained in NVCI, ASIST, Safe Talk
• Tell Them From Me
• RHA survey
Data Review
“Hmmm…
Now what??”
AND….
The Public Health Agency of Canada defines mental health as “the capacity of each and all of us to feel, think, act in ways that enhance our ability to enjoy life and deal with the challenges we face. It is a positive sense of emotional and spiritual well‐being that respects the importance of culture, equity, social justice, interconnections and personal integrity. Trends…
• Joint Consortium for School Health (JCSH)
• Healthy Child Manitoba
• Manitoba Association of School Superintendents (MASS)
• Manitoba School Boards Association (MSBA)
Trends
• Student Services Administrators of Manitoba (SSAAM)
• Safe Schools Legislation
• High lights on Social Justice & Equity – We Day
• National Curriculum Guide
Where are we headed?
• How can we widen our concept of mental health?
• How can we create different understanding amongst staff & students?
• How can all this be integrated into the school plans? Administrator & teacher friendly?
• How a plan be sustained? Cost effective?
Where are we headed?
Mental health literacy :
• Understanding how to foster and maintain good mental health
• Understanding mental disorders and their treatments
• Decreasing stigma
• Seeking help effectively
Stan Kutcher & Yifeng Wei 2014
Consider the audience
Bringing natural partners together
Beginning the “strategy”
Student Voice 2015‐16
MIND Your Health Team
FLBSD MIND Your Health Strategy Using the comprehensive school health framework (JCSH) which includes four inter‐
related pillars as foundation:
• Social and Physical Environment
• Teaching and Learning
• Partnerships & Services • Healthy School Policy
As well as the principles of Mental Health Literacy (Kutcher & We)
School Administrator
Don Nahachewsky
School & Itinerant Councelor
After the FLBSD conference…
• School & division plans implemented
• Team members as able attended working conference: Education for Sustainable Development: Well Being & Well Becoming in Manitoba Schools
• Review Strategic Plan in light of working conference
• Revise to include specific intention to expand Aboriginal Perspective & FLBSD staff wellness
Digital Learners
For those learners who depend on their app’s
Belly Bio
Operation Reach Out
eCBT Calm
Deep Sleep with Andrew Johnson
What’s my M3
DBT Diary Card and Skills Coach
Optimism
iSleepEasy
Magic Window
Relax Melodies
CODE Blue
Breathe 2 Relax
Lantern
PSTD Coach
Big Whitewall
SAM: Self Help for Anxiety Management
IntelliCare
Equanimity – Meditation timer
Reliable Web sites
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teenmentalhealth.org
andrewdunn.org
cmha.ca Canadian Mental Health Association
mentalhealthcommission.ca Mental Health Commission of Canada
psychcentral.com
healthyplace.com
who.int/mental_health/en/
mindcheck.ca
mindyourmind.ca
shared‐care.ca/toolkits
kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind
name.org National Alliance on Mental Illness
nimh.nih.gov National Institute of Mental Health
mentalhealth.com Internet Mental Health
mentalhealthamerica.net
helpguide.org
Student Voice 2016‐17
2016‐2017 Next Steps
• Keep our Strategic plan evergreen & visible in schools & in the division
• Continue to strengthen relationship with community partners
• Embrace strategies that support knowledge, mental health wellness as well as intervention with money, time, personnel
• Wellness Day – staff & student voice
MIND Your Health • If you would like to receive a copy of our strategy, please email to: lbawdon@flbsd.mb.ca
Thank you for sharing this time with us