Peterborough County, ON

Child and Youth Service Organizations

Youth friendly website about anxiety.
Anxiety Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Best Start is Ontario's Maternal Newborn and Early Child Development Resource Centre. It is part of Health Nexus, a bilingual health promotion organization that works with diverse partners to build healthy, equitable and thriving communities. Best Start Resource Centre supports service providers who work in preconception health, prenatal health and early child development. Produces multi-media resources in multiple languages on a broad range of topics * Provide consultations, training and professional development for service providers.
Best Start Resource Centre
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
The Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development has information on various disorders, behaviour problems, and life circumstances that can have a significant impact on children’s health and well-being.
Offord Centre for Child Studies
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Self-help toolkit gives information on depression and offers skills to fight against depression.
BC Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD)
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Youth-friendly website with information about the dangers of drugs, designed to empower youth so that they can make healthy decisions.
Health Canada
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Movies and videos, Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
Guide for children and youth with siblings with mental illness.
TeenMentalHealth.org
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
A tutorial that helps you explore possible stressors in your life, and provides suggestions of how to deal with them.
US National Library of Medicine: National Institutes of Health
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
MyHealth Magazine is a health and wellness program delivered through a series of interactive, online resources for young people (students.myhealthmagazine.net), educators (teachers.myhealthmagazine.net), and college students (college.myhealthmagazine.net).
Dr. Darcy Santor
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Fondé en 1998, SAFERA est un organisme francophone dont la mission est centrée sur la prévention du syndrome d’alcoolisation fœtale (SAF) et la réponse aux besoins des personnes atteintes. Ressources: site Internet, groupe de soutien pour parents francophones, livre Enfants de l'alcool, affiches, dépliants, DVD, consultations téléphoniques, formations.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
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This is a website for both youth and youth workers. For youth, the website provides information about substance use. For youth workers, the web site is to act as a participant resource for relevant materials that were covered during the Substance Use Awareness and Youth Engagement program to support those who work with youth to engage in conversations about the prevention of illicit substance use.
Canadian Training Institute
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca), Primary Care (primarycare.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Sesame Street has various materials to help children of military families cope with issues such as pre-deployment, deployment, homecoming, changes and grief.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Movies and videos
National, American effort dedicated to the life-long concerns of brothers and sisters of people who have special health, developmental, or mental health concerns.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books, Websites including blogs, support forums
Providing information about anxiety.
Children's Center for OCD and Anxiety
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums